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Definition: Blowup |
BlowupNoun1. A sudden very loud noise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Geography | Diving accident in which the diver becomes positively buoyant and makes a rapid uncontrolled ascent to the surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Eng. An explosion of combustible gases in a mine. b. To allow atmospheric air access to certain places in coal mines, so asto generate heat, and ultimately to cause gob fires. (references) |
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Synonyms: BlowupSynonyms: bang (n), blast (n), clap (n), eruption (n), loud noise (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blowup |
| Specialty definitions using "blowup": EXAMINER, QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Blowup (1966) | |
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 | 3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Blowup of area right at base of Oregon continental slope Note oblique lineations at base of continental slope These are real features as sounding system artifacts are farther to west (left). Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Blowup of plaque describing commercial species in North Pacific waters. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Blowup of sun image on Title page of "De thermis Andreae Baccii Elpidiani, civis Romani ...." by Andrea Bacci, published posthumously in 1622. Library Call Number QC253 .B32 1622. Credit: Treasures of the Library. | ||
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
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male blowup doll | 2 |
photo blowup | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blowup"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sherr (hassle, kick up, miff, quarrel, rumpus, scrap, wrangle), plasje (backfire, bang, blast, blowout, burst, cleavage, detonation, plunk, report), pëlcitje (burst, rattle), grindje (altercation, bickering, bobbery, brawl, breach, breeze, broil, contention, contest, disagreement, discord, disputation, dispute, dissension, feud, fight, fray, friction, jar, quarrel, squabble, strife, variance, wrangle). (various references) | |
Arabic | نسف (blast, blasting, blow up, blowing up, sinking, torpedo, torpedoing). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | увеличение (accession, accretion, amplification, enlargement, expansion, gain, increase, increment, magnification, progress, rising, swelling), скандал (affair, fracas, kick up, row, scandal, scene), експлозия (explosion, fulmination). (various references) | |
Chinese | 爆炸 (Explosion). (various references) | |
Danish | hævning med luftsæk, hævning med løfteballon. (various references) | |
Dutch | opstijgen (to mount). (various references) | |
Farsi | منفجرکردن (Burst, Dynamite, Puff), ترکاندن (Blast, Chap, Pop), عکس بزرگ شده , عصبانی کردن (Blood, Crab, Enrage, Irritate, Mad, Madden), انفجار (Blast, Blowout, Burst, Bust, Eruption, Explosion, Gust, Outburst, Pop). (various references) | |
French | remontée en ballon (blowing up, blow-up). (various references) | |
German | Vergrößerung (enlargement, magnification, aggrandizement, augment, augmentation, increase), Aufblasen (inflate, blow up). (various references) | |
Hungarian | robbanás (detonation, explosion, blast, fulmination), felnagyított fénykép, dühroham (fume, tantrum). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ledakan (burst, explosion, outburst). (various references) | |
Italian | risalita con pallone. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owupblay.(various references) | |
Russian | вспышка гнева (passion, tantrum), взрывать;надувать взрыв, взрыв (detonation, explosion, outburst), нагоняй (scolding). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uveličanje fotografskog snimka, groplan, eksplozija (blast, blowout, burst, detonation, explosion, fulmination, outburst). (various references) | |
Spanish | explosión (explosion, blast, burst, outburst), estallido (blast, crack, crash, explosion, outbreak, pop, report, snap), elevado en globo, ampliación (enlargement, aggrandizement, increase, development). (various references) | |
Turkish | tepesi atma (being furious, explosion), patlama (bang, blow out, boom, burst, burst up, crack, detonating, detonation, eruption, explosion, fireworks, fulminating, fulmination, outburst, plosion, puncture, simmer), infilak (burst, burst up, detonation, explosion, fulmination). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blowup": blowups. (additional references) | |
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"Blowup" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blewp, Blocul, Bloque, blouw, boup, Broxup. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-o-p-u-w" | |
-1 letter: upbow. | |
-2 letters: blow, bowl, loup, plow. | |
-3 letters: bop, bow, lob, lop, low, owl, pol, pow, pub, pul, upo, wop. | |
-4 letters: bo, lo, op, ow, up, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-o-p-u-w" | |
+1 letter: blowups. | |
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