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Bellow vs Bellows - What's the difference?

bellow | bellows |

As nouns the difference between bellow and bellows

is that bellow is the deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise while bellows is a device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.

As verbs the difference between bellow and bellows

is that bellow is to make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull while bellows is third-person singular of bellow.

bellow

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.
  • * Dryden
    • the bellowing voice of boiling seas
  • To shout in a deep voice.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=May 13 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.}}

    References

    bellows

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) belwes, plural of belu, belw, a northern form of beli, from (etyl) . Compare German (m). See also (m).

    Noun

  • A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.
  • * , chapter=8
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
  • Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.
  • (informal, or, archaic) The lungs.
  • (photography) Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.
    • Usage notes
    * "Bellows" is used with both singular and plural verbs. One can even find "A bellows is/was".
    Related terms
    * belly * blow

    Etymology 2

    See bellow

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (bellow)

    • Anagrams

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