different between inflation vs inblow

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin ?nfl?ti? (“expansion", "blowing up”), from ?nfl?tus, the perfect passive participle of ?nfl? (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + fl? (“blow”).Morphologically inflate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?fle???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

inflation (plural inflations)

1. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.

   The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

2. (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
3. (economics) A decline in the value of money.
4. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
5. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
6. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.

Antonyms

• deflation

Derived terms

Related terms

• inflate
• conflation
• reflation

Translations

References

• (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.

Anagrams

• inflatino

French

Etymology

From Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin infl?ti?, infl?ti?nem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.fla.sj??/
• Homophone: inflations

Noun

inflation f (plural inflations)

1. (economics) inflation

Antonyms

• déflation

Related terms

• enfler
• enflure

Further reading

• “inflation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nfl?ti?.

Noun

inflation f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)

1. (medicine) swelling

Descendants

• ? English: inflation
• French: inflation

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'