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Bellows vs Yellows - What's the difference?

bellows | yellows |

As nouns the difference between bellows and yellows

is that 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 or bellows can be while yellows is .

As verbs the difference between bellows and yellows

is that bellows is (bellow) while yellows is (yellow).

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.
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  • 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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    yellows

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (archaic) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes.
  • (archaic) A disease of plants, especially peach trees, in which the leaves turn a yellowish colour.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (yellow)
    • This paper yellows with age and gets brittle.