different between inspire vs inblow

English

Etymology

From Middle English inspiren, enspiren, from Old French inspirer, variant of espirer, from Latin ?nsp?r?re, present active infinitive of ?nsp?r? (“inspire”), itself a loan-translation of Biblical Ancient Greek ???? (pné?, “breathe”), from in + sp?r? (“breathe”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n.?spa??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n.?spa??(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Verb

inspire (third-person singular simple present inspires, present participle inspiring, simple past and past participle inspired)

1. (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
   • c. 1588-1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

     Dawning day new comfort hath inspired.
2. (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.

   Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.

   • Erato, thy poet's mind inspire, / And fill his soul with thy celestial fire.

3. (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
   • c. 1670, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus", Or a Theoretick and Practical Discourse of Consumptions and Hypochondriack Melancholy... Likewise a Discourse of Spitting of Blood

     By means of those sulfurous coal smokes the lungs are as it were stifled and extremely oppressed, whereby they are forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty.

4. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
5. (archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
6. (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• beghast

Antonyms

• (inhale): expire

Derived terms

• inspirer

Related terms

• inspiration
• inspirational
• inspirator
• inspiratory

Translations

Anagrams

• spinier

Asturian

Verb

inspire

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of inspirar

French

Verb

inspire

1. inflection of inspirer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

inspire

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of inspirar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of inspirar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of inspirar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of inspirar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [in?spire]

Verb

inspire

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of inspira
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of inspira

Spanish

Verb

inspire

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of inspirar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of inspirar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of inspirar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of inspirar.

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'