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Definition: Blowing |
BlowingNoun1. Processing that involves blowing a gas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blowing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A sudden inflow of water into an excavation or cofferdam caused by rapidly developed piping. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | An uncontrolled escape of drilling fluid, gas, oil, or water from the formation(1). Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Removal of the contents(pulp and spent liquor)through an exit at the base of the digester under the action of the digester pressure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Oxidation of molten metal or matte in a converter or other smelting furnace, in order to remove carbon and sulfur and to convert impurities to slag.b. The bursting of pots from too rapid heating. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fatigue | Breathless, windless; short of breath, out of breath, short of wind; blown, puffing and blowing; short-breathed; anhelose; broken winded, short-winded; dyspnaeal, dyspnaeic. |
Inquiry | Get the lay of the land; see how the wind is blowing; put one's ear to the ground. |
Wind | Sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation; blowing, fanning. Verb: ventilation. |
Adjective: blowing. Verb: windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy, tempestuous, blustering; boisterous. (violent). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What's to stop it blowing your bollocks off every time you sit down (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) The only thing better than blowing up $100 billion worth of gold is making people think you did. (Die Hard: With a Vengeance; writing credit: Jonathan Hensleigh) It was my intention of getting Epstein in here, and putting this pistol to his ear, and blowing a tunnel through his head (Biloxi Blues; writing credit: Neil Simon) Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I feel a breeayou're blowing in my ear. (Waiting for Guffman; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy) | |
Lyrics | Like blowing, blowing kisses (Blowing Kisses In The Wind; performing artist: Paula Abdul) You're blowing my mind, maybe in time (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) A band is blowing Dixie double four time (Sultans Of Swing; performing artist: Dire Straits) Half way home and my pager still blowing up (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube) We're blowing in the wind (Angel; performing artist: Lionel Richie) | |
Clever | Blowing out another's candle will not make yours shine brighter. (references; author: unknown) Sterilize: What you do to your first baby's pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby's pacifier by blowing on it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Blowing Wild (1953) I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (1930) Blowing the Whistle (1986) | |
Song Titles | Blowing Kisses In The Wind (performing artist: Paula Abdul) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A monstrous black hole's rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into ... Credit: NASA. |  | A star 40 times more massive than the Sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Killer whale blowing - Orcinus orca. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | The aftermath of a tower blowing over Bob had his head buried a foot deep in the tundra Photo #1 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Home sweet quanset hut - horizontally blowing snow streaks across the front door. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | On the airstrip at Oliktok Point - wind blowing flag straight out. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A 'living snowfence' windbreak, also known as a conservation buffer, is used along with conservation tillage in northern Iowa to reduce soil and snow blowing. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Topsoil blowing in the wind in north-central Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Wind blowing at Fish Lake. Credit: Unknown. |  | Scenic view of the Madison River with grass blowing in the foreground. Credit: Merv Coleman. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Blowing coconut palm" by Terry Eaton Commentary: "A long exposure of a blowing coconut palm on Fort Lauderdale Beach at night." | "Blowing Kisses" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Just me blowing a kiss." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Fire truck starting and driving, blowing the horn to notify cars, and following a police car with its siren on. | | Imitation of a ship's horn blowing by violins. |
| Synthetic low-pitched tanker horn blowing. | | Hair dryer whirling and blowing hot air. |
| Synthetic tanker horn blowing. | | Child saying, "Pull my finger, Dad" and blowing a raspberry. |
| Starting a hair dryer and blowing hair dry. | | Boat horn blowing. |
| Man blowing his nose. | | Blowing police whistle once. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Johann Kaspar Lavater | You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all. |
Martin Luther | The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. |
Samuel Johnson | Smoking is a shocking thing -- blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The wind is blowing, that dark ship must keep on her destined course |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A keen October wind was blowing round the bank |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And Ma went to the meat counter, her forefinger pressed against her lips, blowing on her finger, thinking deeply, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The most common of these are the CFCs, Halons, HBFCs, HCFCs and individual products such as carbon tetrachloride and 1,1,1 tri-chloroethane, which have been used for refrigeration, foam blowing, fire fighting, aerosol sprays, and degreasing. (references) | |
The origins of Spain’s success can be found in a mixture of factors such as being a windy country with the wind blowing across a land mass ten times as large as Denmark and a focused regional development policy and national support scheme which is strong and straightforward. (references) | ||
Economic History | Colombia | Injection accounts for 16.5 percent; blowing 9.5 percent; with calendering, thermoforming, and molding accounting for 10 percent. (references) |
Germany | Most state governments have contact points for whistle blowing and provisions for rotating personnel in areas prone to corruption. (references) | |
Cape Verde | The average precipitation per year in Praia is 24 centimeters (9.5 in.). During the winter, storms blowing from the Sahara sometimes cloud the sky, but sunny days are the norm year round. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | On June 23, 98 inmates (including 19 guerrillas) escaped from La Picota prison by blowing a hole in a wall with a gas cylinder. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student. Beside a lonely grave I stood -- With brambles 'twas encumbered; The winds were moaning in the wood, Unheard by him who slumbered, A rustic standing near, I said: "He cannot hear it blowing!" "'Course not," said he: "the feller's dead -- He can't hear nowt [sic] that's going." "Too true," I said; "alas, too true -- No sound his sense can quicken!" "Well, mister, wot is that to you? -- The deadster ain't a-kickin'." I knelt and prayed: "O Father, smile On him, and mercy show him!" That countryman looked on the while, And said: "Ye didn't know him." Pobeter Dunko |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Jesse Ventura | Well, first of all, President Bush is going to experience the same thing, too. Approval ratings are just the way the wind happens to be blowing that week. And it's very difficult. |
Mark Shields | Intense Republican tactic is blowing, basically, from the Democrat success in demonizing and villainizing Newt Gingrich, the speaker of the House, making him the face of the Republican Party. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | But now the winds of change appear to be blowing more strongly than ever, in the world of communism as well as our own. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Blowing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.05% of the time. "Blowing" is used about 880 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.05% | 854 | 8,267 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.93% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.68% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.34% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 880 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "blowing". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Aphiah | N/A | Biblical | Blowing |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "blowing": be blowing ♦ blowing about ♦ blowing adder ♦ blowing cone ♦ blowing dust ♦ blowing engine ♦ blowing gas ♦ blowing in ♦ blowing in from bank ♦ blowing of a well ♦ blowing one's nose ♦ blowing out ♦ blowing Rock ♦ blowing snow ♦ blowing the horn ♦ blowing tube ♦ blowing up ♦ blowing well ♦ blowing your buffer ♦ boundary layer blowing ♦ clear by blowing ♦ glass blowing ♦ see how the wind is blowing. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "blowing": foam-blowing, whistle-blowing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "blowing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lulëzim (bloom, blooming, blossoming, blow, efflorescence, exfoliation, florescence, flourish, flower, flowering, heyday, inflorescence, meridian, pride, prime, prosperity, thrift), lavdërim (boast, commendation, exaltation, Laud, laudation, praise), fryrje (blow, bounce, bulge, distention, flatulence, flatulency, hot air, inflation, injection, insufflation, puff, puffery, vainglory, wind), defekt (defect, failing, fault, handicap, hole). (various references) | |
Arabic | نفخ في البوق, قطع بشدة (rip out), عصافة, المرهق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разцъфтяване (efflorescence), надуване (air blast, inflation, peacockery, swank), продухване (expulsion, purification, scavenging), дъх (aroma, breath, puff, respiration, savor, savour, tincture, tinge, wind), дихание (exhalation). (various references) | |
Chinese | 吹 (Blew, Blown, Puff). (various references) | |
Danish | blaesning (blasting, grit blasting, pitting, popping), blaesestoebning, zinksproejt (spitting), varmformet (hot iron mold, hot mold), udblæsning (blow out, blowing of a well, to blow out), pustning (bubbling, cheese blowing), pludselig indstrømmen (blow), opblæsning af skumplast (foam blowing, foaming, plastic foaming), apparat til præfiksering med damp (equipment for pre-setting with steam). (various references) | |
Dutch | blazen (blow), wegspatten, vroeg optredend los (cheese blowing), vastblazen (hot iron mold, hot mold), uitspuiten (squirt), snelstromende wel (blow), schuimuitzetting (foam blowing, foaming, plastic foaming), putuitbarsting (blow out, blowing of a well), heft (handle, knob), eruptie (eruption), afblazen (blow, drain). (various references) | |
Finnish | pusku (blow), purkaus (discharge, eruption, outburst), puhallusmuovaus (blow forming), paisuminen (cheese blowing, dilatation, dilation, swelling, to swell), paikallepuhallus (hot iron mold, hot mold), muovin vaahdotus (foam blowing, foaming, plastic foaming), kiinnipuhallus kuumaan rautamuottiin (hot iron mold, hot mold), höyryllä toimiva esifikseerauslaitteisto (equipment for pre-setting with steam), höyrydekatointilaitteisto (equipment for pre-setting with steam). (various references) | |
French | soufflant, soufflage, renard se produisant sous un ouvrage de retenue en terre (blow), renard se produisant à travers un ouvrage de retenue en terre (blow), projection (blow out, blowing of a well), moulé en plein, jaillissement (blow out, blowing of a well), gonflement de la mousse plastique (foam blowing), gonflement de la mousse (foam blowing), gonflement (cheese blowing, foam blowing), explosion (blast, blaze, blow up, blowing up, puff and blow), appareil de préfixage à la vapeur, évacuation par soufflage (blow), éruption (blow out, blowing of a well). (various references) | |
German | Blähung (flatulence, wind), Blasen (bladders, blisters, blow, blow on, bubble, bubbles, cystic, puff, to blow, to toot, toot, wind), blasend (tooting, whiffing), Schäumen (boil, bubble, churn, foam, froth, lather, seethe), Ausbruch (break out, breakaway, eruption, escape, explosion, gush, gust, jailbreak, onset, outbreak, outburst, raptures, Sally), Auswerfen von Zink, Eruption (eruption), Ausblasen (blow out, to blow out), Käseblähung (cheese blowing), Wassereinbruch (blow, down flooding, flooding, influx of water), schneuzend, Sondenausbruch (blow out, blowing of a well), Spritzen (bespatter, dabble, gush, hose, inject, pipe, slosh, spatter, spit, splash, splash up, spout, spray, sprinkle, spurt, spurt out, sputter, squirt, syringe, syringes), Treiben (battue, be adrift, be up to, beat, bring, carry on, chase, commit, create, do, drift, drive, drive on, enchase, float, force, hustle and bustle, impel, jack up, leaven, make, make rise, move, propel, pursue, push, push out, put forth, put out, rush, shoo, sprout, swirling, throw out, thrust, to enchase, urge, work, wreak), Vollblasen (hot iron mold, hot mold), Vorfixierapparat mit Dampf (equipment for pre-setting with steam), eruptiver Ausbruch (blow out, blowing of a well). (various references) | |
Greek | έκρηξη γεώτρησης (blow out, blowing of a well), έκρηξη (blast, blasting, blow out, blow up, burst, detonation, eruption, explosion, outbreak, outburst), φαινόμενο αλεπούς (blow), φούσκωμα (bump, flatulence, flatulency, inflation, puff, swell, swelling, tumidness, turgidity, turgidness, upsurge), εκκένωση με πίεση (blow), εξοπλισμός προ-σταθεροποίησης με ατμό (equipment for pre-setting with steam), εμφύσηση (inflation), θερμό καλούπι (hot iron mold, hot mold), διόγκωση πλαστικού αφρού (foam blowing, foaming, plastic foaming), διόγκωση αφρού (foam blowing, foaming, plastic foaming), διόγκωση (bulging, bulk, cheese blowing, dilatation, dilation, expansion, flipper, foam blowing, foaming, intumescence, irradiation swelling, plastic foaming, strand bulging, swell, swelling, to swell, volume). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משב (blast, breeze, gust, puff), הפחה (flatulence, insufflation, puffing up), נשיבה (puffing), נשוב, נפיחה (eructation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fújó (blower), fújás (blow). (various references) | |
Italian | soffiatura (blow, blow forming, blow hole, blowhole, gas bubble, gas pocket, insufflation, pitting, popping, puffing, void), soffiato a fermo (hot iron mold, hot mold), soffiaggio (to blow out), gonfiore (Bunion, distension, lump, swelling), fontanazzo determinatosi sotto un'opera di ritenuta in terra (blow), fontanazzo determinatosi attraverso un'opera di ritenuta di terra (blow), esplosione (bang, blast, burst, crack, eruption, explosion, outbreak, outburst, raptures), espansione (effusion, expanse, expansion, spread), eruzione del pozzo (blow out, blowing of a well). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 吹鳴 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいめい (light shimmering on water). (various references) | |
Korean | 부 (Department, loosening, subordinate, VICE, Wealth). (various references) | |
Manx | sheidey (blast, blast of wind, blow, blow of whale, breathe, breeze, bugle, distention, dynamite, fill out, fire away, gust, honk, puff, sound, spell of wind, spout, toot, toot on horn, waft, wafting), sheidee, sheebey (accumulation, blow about, drift, drive, gust, sandbank on land, scold), lheie (assimilation, blow, blow of fuse, blow out, digest, disappear, dissipate, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, fuse, liquefaction, liquefy; digestion, melting, smelt, smelting, soften), geayraghey (sour). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owingblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sopro (blow, breath, puff, souffle, whiff), sopragem (flushing, pitting, popping), soprado parado (hot iron mold, hot mold), projecções de zinco, moldado parado (hot iron mold, hot mold), maquinaria para pré-fixação com vapor (equipment for pre-setting with steam), insuflação (instillation, instilment), erupção (acne, boil, breaking, burst, explosion, outbreak, outburst), dilatação (distension, expanse, flare, swell, swelling), descompressão (blow, decompression), descarga (chase, discharge, exhaust, flush, outfall, outflow, shot, volley), assopro (blast). (various references) | |
Romanian | vântul furnalului, suflu (blast, breath, soul, whiff, wind), suflare (blow, breath, breathing, draught, puff, waft, wind). (various references) | |
Russian | хвастовство (big talk, blague, boast, brag, braggery, bragging, bravado, gasconade, jactation, jactitation, ostentation, rodomontade, swank, vaunt), цветение (bloom, blossom, florescence, flowering, inflorescence), веяние (breath), просачивание газа, дуновение (blow, breath, flatus, puff), дыхание (breath, breathing, flatus, respiration, wind). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ispuštanje pare, duvanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | brote eruptivo (blow out, blowing of a well), vía de agua a través de una obra de tierra destinada a contener agua (blow), soplo (blast, blow, breath, gust, puff, tip, waft, whiff), sopladura (blowhole, bubble), soplado (informed), silbido (catcall, hiss, hissing, ping, sing, singing, swish, swoosh, whine, whistle, whistling, whiz, whizz, zing, zip), salpicaduras de cinc, hinchamiento (bulkage, bulking, cheese blowing, dilatation, dilation, heave, puffing, swell, swelling, to swell), erupción (eruption, outbreak, rash), aparato de prefijado de vapor (equipment for pre-setting with steam). (various references) | |
Swedish | blåsning. (various references) | |
Turkish | üfleme (blast, blow, insufflation, puff, puffing, wind). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розквіт (blossom, blow, efflorescence, florescence, heyday, noon, noonday, noontide, pride, prime, well being, zenith), хвастощі (blow, boast, boasting, bounce, brag, braggery, bravadoes, display, flash, gasconade, jactation, jactitation, ostent, ostentation, rodomontade), цвітіння (blow, blowth, florescence, flower, flowering, inflorescence), квітучий (blooming, efflorescent, flourishing, flowered, flowering, full blown, pert, thrifty, well to do, wholesome), вітряний (airy, blowy, gusty, windy), видування, подув (air, blow, breath, breathing, flatus, sigh, waft, waftage, whiff), дуття (blasting). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nổ (blowing-up, buoyancy, explosion), sự chửi mắng (blowing-up). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | flatibus, flatu, flatum, flatus, inflationes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 6, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H te qalassa anemou megalou pneontoV dihgeireto |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Mare autem vento magno flante exsurgebat |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Mycel wind bleow. & hyt wæs breoht(sic) sæ. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And for a greet wynde blew, the see roos vp. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And ye see arose with a greate winde yt blew. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The sea was getting rough because of a strong wind which was blowing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 6, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang lanaw misugod na sa pagbalud tungod sa makusog nga hangin nga naghuros. |
| Chinese | 忽 然 狂 風 大 作 、 海 就 翻 騰 起 來 。 |
| Croatian | More se uzburkalo od silnog vjetra što je zapuhao. |
| Danish | Og Søen rejste sig, da der blæste en stærk Vind. |
| Dutch | En de zee verhief zich, overmits er een grote wind waaide. |
| Finnish | ja järvi aaltoili ankarasti kovan tuulen puhaltaessa. |
| French | Il soufflait un grand vent, et la mer était agitée. |
| German | Und das Meer erhob sich von einem großen Winde. |
| Hungarian | És a tenger a nagy szél fúvása miatt háborog vala. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sementara itu danau mulai bergelora karena angin keras. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka tasik itu pun sangat berombak, sebab angin keras bertiup. |
| Italian | Il mare era agitato, perché soffiava un forte vento. |
| Korean | 큰 바 람 이 불 어 파 도 가 일 어 나 더 라 |
| Latvian | Bet jûra, pûðot stipram vçjam, bangojâs. |
| Maori | Na ko te turanga o te moana, he nui hoki no te puhanga o te hau. |
| Norwegian | Og sjøen gikk høit, for det blåste en sterk vind. |
| Portuguese | ademais, o mar se empolava, porque soprava forte vento. |
| Rumanian | Sufla un vknt puternic wi marea era kntqrktatq. |
| Russian | дХМ УЙМШОЩК ЧЕФЕТ, Й НПТЕ ЧПМОПЧБМПУШ. |
| Shuar | Tura nase ti Umpúakui Chíchimi ti wajaimiayi. |
| Spanish | Y se agitaba el mar porque soplaba un gran viento. |
| Swahili | Ziwa likaanza kuchafuka kwa sababu upepo mkali ulikuwa unavuma. |
| Swedish | och sjön gick hög, ty det blåste hårt. |
| Uma | Bula-ra mosakaya toe, rata ngolu' bohe mporumpa' -ra, alaa-na bohe balumpa hi rano. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "blowing": flyblowing, glassblowing, overblowing, whistleblowing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "blowing": glassblowings, whistleblowings. (additional references) | |
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"Blowing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bilowing, bloing, bloring, Blouin, blowen, blowin, Browing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blowing" (pronounced blō"ing) |
| 4 | -l ō" i ng | flowing, glowing, lowing, slowing. |
| 3 | -ō" i ng | bestowing, bowing, crowing, easygoing, foregoing, forgoing, going, growing, hoeing, knowing, owing, plateauing, rowing, sewing, showing, snowing, sowing, throwing, toeing, towing, undergoing, unknowing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bowling. | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-l-n-o-w" | |
-1 letter: bowing, globin, goblin, lowing. | |
-2 letters: bingo, blown, boing, lingo, owing. | |
-3 letters: blin, blow, boil, bong, bowl, glib, glob, glow, gown, ling, lino, lion, loin, long, lown, noil, wing, wino. | |
-4 letters: big, bin, bio, bog, bow, gib, gin, gob, ion, lib, lin, lob, log, low, nib, nil, nob, nog, now, obi, oil, owl, own, wig. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-l-n-o-w" | |
+1 letter: boweling, bowingly, bowlings, elbowing, wobbling. | |
+2 letters: behowling, bellowing, billowing, bowelling. | |
+3 letters: batfowling, beclowning, emboweling, flyblowing, lowballing, outbawling. | |
+4 letters: beflowering, disboweling, embowelling, furbelowing, outbrawling, overblowing, snowballing. | |
+5 letters: bowdlerising, bowdlerizing, disbowelling, glassblowing, snowmobiling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Derived from | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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