different between relaxer vs blowout

English

Etymology

relax +? -er.

Noun

relaxer (plural relaxers)

1. Any agent that produces relaxation.

   Music is a good relaxer.

2. A person who relaxes.
   • 2014, Rusty Gregory, Alan Chasen, Living Wheat-Free For Dummies (page 172)

     Are you a doer or a relaxer? If you said “some of both,” then you're right on track.

Related terms

• relaxant
• relaxation

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin relax?re, present active infinitive of relax?. Cognate with Spanish relajar. See also Old French relaisser.

Verb

relaxer

1. (law) to discharge
2. (reflexive) to relax

Conjugation

Derived terms

• se relaxer

Related terms

• laisser

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

relaxer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of relax?

Old French

Verb

relaxer

1. Alternative form of relaschier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?blo?a?t/

Noun

blowout (plural blowouts)

1. A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
2. A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
3. (slang) A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
4. (slang) A large or extravagant meal.
   • 2011, Fodor's Normandy, Brittany & the Best of the North: with Paris

     The dining room at Alain Ducasse's flagship Paris restaurant gleams with 10,000 crystals, confirming that this is the flashiest place in town for a blowout meal.

5. (slang, sports) A sporting contest that is decidedly one-sided and whose outcome is no longer in doubt.

   The game between the two teams was nothing but a blowout.

6. (slang) An argument; an altercation.
   • 2014, Christine Pope, Star Crossed (page 141)

     The day my aunt and I had talked was just as vivid to me now as it had been eight years ago, when I'd had a blowout with my mother over my decision to go to school in Tucson rather than staying safely up here in northern Arizona.

7. (geology) A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
8. (Australia) An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
9. The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
10. An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.

Derived terms

See also

• blow out

Anagrams

• bowl out, bowl-out, outblow, outbowl