different between blower vs blowing

English

Etymology

From Middle English blower, from Old English bl?were; equivalent to blow +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???(r)

Noun

blower (plural blowers)

1. A person who blows.
2. Any device that blows.
3. (slang, chiefly Britain, usually preceded by the) Telephone.

   Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!

   1. (slang, Britain, historical) A telephone service providing betting odds and commentary, relayed to customers in a bookmaker's shop via loudspeaker.
4. A ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.
5. (dated) A braggart, or loud talker.
6. The whale; so called by seamen, from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
7. A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.

Translations

Anagrams

• Bowler, Wrobel, bowler, worble

Indonesian

Etymology

From English blower.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?blow?r]
• Hyphenation: blo?wêr

Noun

blower (plural blower-blower, first-person possessive blowerku, second-person possessive blowermu, third-person possessive blowernya)

1. blower: a ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.

Further reading

• “blower” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blawer, blauere, blowere

Etymology

From Old English bl?were.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?u??r(?)/
• (Northern ME) IPA^(key): /?bl?u??r(?)/

Noun

blower (plural blowers)

1. A player of a wind instrument.
2. (rare) One who blows a bellows.
3. (rare) A tool or instrument used by blowing.
4. (rare) A person who converses in a vain or crude way.

Descendants

• English: blower
• Scots: blawer

References

• “blouere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-14.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?blo?.??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bl??.??/
• Rhymes: -????

Etymology 1

From Middle English blowinde, blawende, from Old English bl?wende, from Proto-Germanic *bl?andz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *bl?an? (“to blow”), equivalent to blow +? -ing.

Verb

blowing

1. present participle of blow

Etymology 2

From Middle English blowyng, blowing, blawyng, blawunge, from Old English bl?wung (“blowing”), equivalent to blow +? -ing.

Noun

blowing (plural blowings)

1. The act of one who blows, or that which blows.

   the blowings of a trumpet

   the puffings and blowings of an unfit runner

Anagrams

• Bowling, bowling

Middle English

Noun

blowing

1. Alternative form of blowyng (“blowing”)