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adversity | blow |

As nouns the difference between adversity and blow

is that adversity is (uncountable) the state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity while blow is a strong wind or blow can be the act of striking or hitting or blow can be a mass or display of flowers; a yield.

As an adjective blow is

blue.

As a verb blow is

to produce an air current or blow can be to blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.

adversity

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1858
    • , year_published=2008 , publisher=Read Books , author= , title= , section=Chapter III citation , isbn=9781443734035 , page=55 , passage=The doctor loved the squire, loved him as his oldest friend; but he loved him ten times better as being in adversity than he could ever have done had things gone well at Greshansbury in his time.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2007
    • , publisher=PublishAmerica , author=Earl Crouch , title=Do You Know? , chapter=When Adversity Strikes citation , isbn=9781424173914 , page=60 , passage=God approves all adversity'. Not all '''adversity''' that the Christian encounters is due to sins in the Christian's life. Not all ' adversity is the fault of the Christian.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1998
    • , publisher=Naval Institute Press , editor=Karel Montor , author=Karel Montor, et al , title=Naval Leadership: Voices of Experience , edition=2nd edition , chapter=Directing and Coordinating Operations , section=Efficient and Professional Conduct citation , isbn=9781557505965 , page=278 , passage=These are the people who will overcome the adversity , chaos, and destruction of combat and defeat the enemy in war.}}
  • (countable) An event that is adverse; calamity.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=1859
    • , author= , coauthors= , title=The Great Earl of Cork , date=September 1859 , volume=LIV , issue= , page=326 , magazine=The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal , publisher=Alex Thom & Sons citation , passage=Having “secret notice,” the writer of “True Remembrances” declares of the above complains, he retired into Munster, intending to proceed to England, to justify himself; but was detained there for want of money by the breaking out of rebellion. This adversity befell him in the autumn of 1598. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1977
    • , year_published=1979 , publisher=Routledge , author=Genevieve Burton , title=Interpersonal Relations: A Guide for Nurses , edition=Fourth edition , chapter=Family Adversity and the Nurse citation , isbn=9780422769907 , page=101 , passage=Every family is struck by adversity' at one time or another. No matter how mature the patients are, regardless of the care an advantages they give their children, despite a desirable interactive love between family members, ' adversity will attack any family}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006
    • , year_published=2007 , publisher=Plume , author=Elizabeth Wissner-Gross , title=What Colleges Don't Tell You (and Other Parents Don't Want You to Know: 272 Secrets for Getting Your Kid Into the Top Schools , chapter=Getting Your Kid off the Waiting List and into the School of His or Her Dreams citation , isbn=9780452288546 , page=272 , passage=Make sure that your child’s adversity' is ''really'' an '''adversity'''. Not having parents who can buy a new car upon your son’s sixteenth birthday is not an '''adversity'''. Being the only girl on the block who doesn’t own a designed handbag is not an ' adversity }}

    Synonyms

    *nakba

    Related terms

    * *

    blow

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) blo, bloo, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Blue.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) blowen, from (etyl) ).

    Verb

  • To produce an air current.
  • * 1606 , , King Lear , act 3, sc. 2:
    • "Blow', winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! ' blow !"
  • * Walton
    • Hark how it rains and blows !
  • To propel by an air current.
    • Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
  • To be propelled by an air current.
    • The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.
  • To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles'', ''to blow glass .
  • To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
    • to blow the fire
  • To clear of contents by forcing air through.
    • to blow an egg
    to blow one's nose
  • To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
  • To make a sound as the result of being blown.
    • In the harbor, the ships' horns blew .
  • * Milton
    • There let the pealing organ blow .
  • (of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
    • There's nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow .
    There she blows ! (i.e. "I see a whale spouting!")
  • To explode.
    • Get away from that burning gas tank! It's about to blow !
  • To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
    • The demolition squad neatly blew the old hotel up.
    The aerosol can was blown to bits.
  • To cause sudden destruction of.
    • He blew the tires and the engine.
  • To suddenly fail destructively.
    • He tried to sprint, but his ligaments blew and he was barely able to walk to the finish line.
  • (slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
    • This blows !
  • (slang) To recklessly squander.
    • I managed to blow $1000 at blackjack in under an hour.
    I blew $35 thou on a car.
    We blew an opportunity to get benign corporate sponsorship.
  • (vulgar) To fellate.
    • Who did you have to blow to get those backstage passes?
  • To leave.
    • Let's blow this joint.
  • To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
  • * 1606 , , Act V, scene 2, line 55.
    • Shall they hoist me up,
    And show me to the shouting varletry
    Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt
    Be gentle grave unto me, rather on Nilus' mud
    Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies
    Blow me into abhorring!
  • * 1610 , , act 3 scene 1
    • (FERDINAND)
    I am, in my condition,
    A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;—
    I would not so!—and would no more endure
    This wooden slavery than to suffer
    The flesh-fly blow my mouth.
  • (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
  • * Dryden
    • Through the court his courtesy was blown .
  • * Whiting
    • His language does his knowledge blow .
  • (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Look how imagination blows him.
  • To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing .
  • To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
    • to blow a horse
    (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
  • * Bartlett
    • You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face.
    Derived terms
    * blow a gasket * blow a kiss * blow apart * blow away * blower * blowhard * blow hot and cold * blowhorn * blow it * blowjob * blow me * blow off * blow off steam * blow one's horn * blow one's nose * blow one's top * blow one's trumpet * blow out * blowout * blow over * blow someone out of the water * blow someone's brains out * blow someone's mind * blow someone's socks off * blow the whistle * blow up * blow upon * blowup * blow up in one's face * glassblower * mind-blowing * there she blows

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strong wind.
    • We're having a bit of a blow this afternoon.
  • (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
    • The players were able to get a blow during the last timeout.
  • (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
  • (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
  • (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) blowe, blaw, northern variant of , Middle Dutch blouwen). Related to block.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of striking or hitting.
    • A fabricator is used to direct a sharp blow to the surface of the stone.
    During an exchange to end round 13, Duran landed a blow to the midsection.
  • A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
  • * T. Arnold
    • A vigorous blow might win [Hanno's camp].
  • A damaging occurrence.
    • A further blow to the group came in 1917 when Thomson died while canoeing in Algonquin Park.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=April 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Norwich returned to second in the Championship with victory over Nottingham Forest, whose promotion hopes were dealt another blow .}}
    Synonyms
    * (The act of striking) bace, strike, hit, punch * (A damaging occurrence) disaster, calamity
    Derived terms
    * blow-by-blow * body blow * come to blows * low blow

    Etymology 4

    (etyl) blowen, from (etyl) 'to bloom').

    Verb

  • To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
  • * 1599 ,
    • You seem to me as in her orb,
    As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown ;
  • * 1667 ,
    • How blows the citron grove.
  • * 1784 , William Cowper, Tirocinium; or, A Review of Schools
    • Boys are at best but pretty buds unblown ,
    Whose scent and hues are rather guessed than known;
  • * '>citation
    • Related terms
    * full-blown

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
  • * (rfdate) :
    • Such a blow of tulips.
  • A display of anything brilliant or bright.
  • A bloom, state of flowering.
    • roses in full blow .
    Related terms
    * ablow

    Anagrams

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