Bellows vs Bellowslike - What's the difference?
bellows | bellowslike |
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.
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, title= 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.
(bellow)
Resembling or characteristic of a bellows (device for delivering pressurized air).
As a noun 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 a verb bellows
is third-person singular of bellow.As an adjective bellowslike is
resembling or characteristic of a bellows (device for delivering pressurized air).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
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.}}