different between inflate vs inblow

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nfl?tus, from the verb ?nfl?.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ?n-fl?t', IPA^(key): /?n?fle?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

inflate (third-person singular simple present inflates, present participle inflating, simple past and past participle inflated)

1. (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
   • 1782, John Scott of Amwell, An Essay on Painting

     When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, / Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes.

2. (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).

3. (figuratively) To swell; to puff up.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     Inflate themselves with some insane delight.

4. (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.

Antonyms

• deflate

Derived terms

• inflated
• inflatingly

Related terms

• inflation

Translations

Latin

Participle

?nfl?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?nfl?tus

Adverb

?nfl?t? (comparative ?nfl?tius, superlative ?nfl?tissim?)

1. haughtily, proudly, pompously

References

• inflate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inflate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inflate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• inflate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Middle English inblowen, from Old English inbl?wan (“to inspire, breathe upon, inflate, puff up”), equivalent to in- +? blow.

Verb

inblow (third-person singular simple present inblows, present participle inblowing, simple past inblew, past participle inblown)

1. (transitive) To blow into; puff up; inflate.
2. (transitive) To breathe into; inspire.
   • 1998, William C. Chittick, The self-disclosure of God:

     Then the spiritual and sensory faculties follow the creation of this partial spirit that is inblown by way of taw??d, for He says, I blew [15:29]. As for the spirit of Jesus, it is inblown through bringing together and manyness, for within him are the faculties ...

3. (intransitive) To blow in.

Noun

inblow (plural inblows)

1. The act or process of blowing in or into; inflation.
   • 1949, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers: Volume 109:

     During the full gasification stage, after piercing has been effected, the enlargement of the cracks requires a progressively increasing inblow.

   • 1980, O. (Otto) Neugebauer, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR., Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematics abstracts: Volume 419:

     Within the frame of the Pandtl model the evident formula for the principle of rate defect in a turbulent boundary layer are obtained when unregular inblow takes place as well as in tubes with exhausting and inblow.

2. That which is blown in.

Anagrams

• Bowlin, Wilbon, blow-in, blowin'