Blow vs Bite - What's the difference?
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Blue.
To produce an air current.
* 1606 , , King Lear , act 3, sc. 2:
* Walton
To propel by an air current.
To be propelled by an air current.
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 clear of contents by forcing air through.
To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
To make a sound as the result of being blown.
* Milton
(of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
To explode.
To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
To cause sudden destruction of.
To suddenly fail destructively.
(slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
(slang) To recklessly squander.
(vulgar) To fellate.
To leave.
To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
* 1606 , , Act V, scene 2, line 55.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 1
(obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
* Dryden
* Whiting
(obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
* Shakespeare
To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
* Shakespeare
To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
(obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
* Bartlett
A strong wind.
(informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
(uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
(uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
(uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
The act of striking or hitting.
A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
* T. Arnold
A damaging occurrence.
* Shakespeare
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To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
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To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
To attack with the teeth.
To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
To have significant effect, often negative.
(of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
(metaphor) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
(intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
* Shakespeare
To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
* Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 32
To take or keep a firm hold.
To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
* Charles Dickens
(slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
(transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. (Used in invective).
(intransitive, AAVE, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
The act of .
* Walton
The wound left behind after having been bitten.
The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
A piece of food of a size that would be produced by ; a mouthful.
(slang) Something unpleasant.
(slang) An act of plagiarism.
A small meal or snack.
(figuratively) aggression
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The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
(colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
* Humorist
(colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
(printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
(Webster 1913)
In intransitive terms the difference between blow and bite
is that blow is to breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff while bite is to take or keep a firm hold.In transitive terms the difference between blow and bite
is that blow is to put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue while bite is to take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.In intransitive slang terms the difference between blow and bite
is that blow is to be very undesirable (see also suck) while bite is to lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.As an adjective blow
is blue.blow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blo, bloo, from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From (etyl) blowen, from (etyl) ).Verb
- "Blow', winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! ' blow !"
- Hark how it rains and blows !
- Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
- The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.
- to blow the fire
- to blow an egg
- to blow one's nose
- In the harbor, the ships' horns blew .
- There let the pealing organ blow .
- 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!")
- Get away from that burning gas tank! It's about to blow !
- The demolition squad neatly blew the old hotel up.
- The aerosol can was blown to bits.
- He blew the tires and the engine.
- He tried to sprint, but his ligaments blew and he was barely able to walk to the finish line.
- This blows !
- 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.
- Who did you have to blow to get those backstage passes?
- Let's blow this joint.
- 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!
- (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.
- Through the court his courtesy was blown .
- His language does his knowledge blow .
- Look how imagination blows him.
- Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing .
- to blow a horse
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- 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 blowsNoun
(en noun)- We're having a bit of a blow this afternoon.
- The players were able to get a blow during the last timeout.
Etymology 3
(etyl) blowe, blaw, northern variant of , Middle Dutch blouwen). Related to block.Noun
(en noun)- 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 vigorous blow might win [Hanno's camp].
- A further blow to the group came in 1917 when Thomson died while canoeing in Algonquin Park.
- a most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows
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Synonyms
* (The act of striking) bace, strike, hit, punch * (A damaging occurrence) disaster, calamityDerived terms
* blow-by-blow * body blow * come to blows * low blowEtymology 4
(etyl) blowen, from (etyl) 'to bloom').Verb
- You seem to me as in her orb,
- As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown ;
- How blows the citron grove.
- Boys are at best but pretty buds unblown ,
- Whose scent and hues are rather guessed than known;
bite
English
Verb
- As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
- That dog is about to bite !
- If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite .
- I needed snow chains to make the tires bite .
- For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite .
- Are the fish biting today?
- I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite ?
- These mosquitoes are really biting today!
- It bites like pepper or mustard.
- Pepper bites the mouth.
- Frosts do bite the meads.
- At the last it [wine] biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- The anchor bites .
- The anchor bites the ground.
- The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, it turned and turned with nothing to bite .
- This music really bites .
- You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
- He always be biting my moves.
Derived terms
* bite back * bite in the ass * bite me * bite off * bite off more than one can chew * bite one's knuckle * bite one's tongue * biter * bite someone's head off * bite the big one * bite the bullet * bite the dust * bite the hand that feeds one * bitingNoun
(en noun)- I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite .
- That snake bite really hurts!
- After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites .
- There were only a few bites left on the plate.
- That's really a bite !
- That song is a bite of my song!
- I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
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- The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite , by deceiving and overreaching.
- (Johnson)