blow·er

(blō′ər)

1. One that blows, especially a mechanical device, such as a fan, that produces a current of air.

2. Slang A braggart.

3. Chiefly British Slang A telephone.

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blower

(ˈbləʊə)

1. a mechanical device, such as a fan, that blows

2. (Mechanical Engineering) a low-pressure rotary compressor, esp in a furnace or internal-combustion engine. See also supercharger

3. (Telecommunications) an informal name for telephone

4. (Telecommunications) an informal name for speaking tube

5. (Animals) an informal name for a whale¹

6. (Mining & Quarrying) mining a discharge of firedamp from a crevice

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blow•er

(ˈbloʊ ər)

n.

1. one that blows.

2. a machine for supplying air.

3. snow blower.

4. a braggart.

[before 900]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	blower - a device that produces a current of air bellows - a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument device - an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" blow drier, blow dryer, hair drier, hair dryer, hand blower - a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair; used for styling hair
	2.	blower - a fan run by an electric motor electric fan electric motor - a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work fan - a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces fan blade - blade of a rotating fan hub - the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes
	3.	blower - large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals cetacean, cetacean mammal aquatic mammal - whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals Cetacea, order Cetacea - an order of Eutheria whale - any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head fluke - either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean blowhole - the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull pod - a group of aquatic mammals

blower

noun

Slang. One given to boasting:

boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, bragger, vaunter.

Informal: blowhard.

Translations

Lüfter

biniou

sfiatatoio telefono

blower

[ˈbləʊəʳ] N (Brit) (= telephone) → teléfono m
who's on the blower? → ¿con quién hablas?
get on the blower to them → dales un toque (por teléfono)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

blower

(= device) → Gebläse nt

(= glass blower) → Glasbläser m

(Brit inf: = telephone) → Telefon nt; to be on the blower → an der Strippe hängen (inf); to get on the blower to somebody → jdn anrufen

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blower

[ˈbləʊəʳ] n (fam) → telefono

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So the blower got down and went with him, and after a time they saw a man who was standing on one leg, and had unstrapped the other and laid it near him.

'What do you say?' said the blower, 'we are prisoners?

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"I took the imp for a Mingo, as I'm a miserable sinner!" he said; "but when my eye ranged along his ribs for a place to get the bullet in-- would you think it, Uncas--I saw the musicianer's blower; and so, after all, it is the man they call Gamut, whose death can profit no one, and whose life, if this tongue can do anything but sing, may be made serviceable to our own ends.

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At some unnatural hour of the morning the dairyman had caused the yawning chimney-corner to be whitened, and the brick hearth reddened, and a blazing yellow damask blower to be hung across the arch in place of the old grimy blue cotton one with a black sprig pattern which had formerly done duty there.

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They were useful, pretty, or funny, a new standish on his table, a little vase for his flower, he always has one, or a bit of green in a glass, to keep him fresh, he says, and a holder for his blower, so that he needn't burn up what Amy calls `mouchoirs'.

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A man's word was as good as his gold in the blower. A marker was a flat, oblong composition chip worth, perhaps, a cent.

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"I am no blower and boaster like some that I could name.

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'Wot are you a-roarin' at?' said Sam impetuously, when the old gentleman had discharged himself of another shout; 'making yourself so precious hot that you looks like a aggrawated glass- blower. Wot's the matter?'

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Blowers, the eminent silk gown who said that such a thing might happen when the sky rained potatoes, he observed, "or when we get through Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Mr.

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After the victory over Dolbear, the Bell stock went soaring skywards; and the higher it went, the greater were the number of infringers and blowers of stock bubbles.

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