Mellows vs Bellows - What's the difference?
mellows | bellows |
(mellow)
Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid.
* Drayton
Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued, soft, rich, delicate; said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.
* Wordsworth
* Thomson
* Percival
Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.
* Wordsworth
* Washington Irving
Relaxed; calm; easygoing; laid-back.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 Warmed by liquor, slightly intoxicated; or, stoned, high.
To make mellow; to relax or soften.
* J. C. Shairp
To become .
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= 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)
As verbs the difference between mellows and bellows
is that mellows is third-person singular of mellow while bellows is third-person singular of bellow.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.mellows
English
Verb
(head)mellow
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- a mellow apple
- a mellow soil
- flowers of rank and mellow glebe
- the mellow horn
- the mellow -tasted Burgundy
- The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues / Heaven with all freaks of light.
- May health return to mellow age.
- as merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound
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- (Addison)
Derived terms
* mellownessVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
- The fervour of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age.
Derived terms
* harshing my mellow (harsh one's mellow) * mellow outbellows
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) belwes, plural of belu, belw, a northern form of beli, from (etyl) . Compare German (m). See also (m).Noun
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