different between blower vs slower

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sl???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?slo??/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Etymology 1

Adjective

slower

1. comparative form of slow: more slow

Adverb

slower

1. comparative form of slow: more slow

Etymology 2

slow +? -er

Noun

slower (plural slowers)

1. That which slows.

Derived terms

• Zeeman slower

Anagrams

• Lowers, low-res, lowers, owlers, rowels