(v. t.) To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).
(n.) A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.
(n.) A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
(n.) A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
(n.) The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.
(v. i.) To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
(v. i.) To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
(v. i.) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
(v. i.) To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
(v. i.) To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
(v. i.) To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.
(v. i.) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
(v. t.) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.
(v. t.) To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
(v. t.) To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.
(v. t.) To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.
(v. t.) To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.
(v. t.) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
(v. t.) To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.
(v. t.) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
(v. t.) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
(v. t.) To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).
(n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
(n.) The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.
(n.) The spouting of a whale.
(n.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
(n.) An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(2) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
(3) "The government should be doing all it can to put the UK at the forefront of this energy revolution not blowing hot and cold on the issue.
(4) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
(5) Drainage of contrast medium from the maxillary sinus during blowing and sniffing was studied by cine-roentgenography in 11 healthy subjects.
(6) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
(7) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
(8) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
(9) Hagan’s defeat came as a shock and a heavy blow for the Democratic party in North Carolina, a purple state that now has no Democratic senator or governor for the first time in 30 years.
(10) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
(11) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(12) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
(13) The departure of Emmerson – who said in a statement that no allegations had been put to him – is a huge blow.
(14) On second impacts, the GSI rose considerably because the shell and liner of the DH-151 cracked and the suspension of the "141" stretched during the first blow.
(15) The files, which were made available to the Guardian , the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and more than 1,000 US troops.
(16) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
(17) Pure blow-out fracture or comminuted facial fracture, double vision and amnesia emerged as additional factors which yielded an efficient scoring system with a sensitivity of 89% and specificity of 90% for the population upon which it was based.
(18) It would strike a blow against its excessively adversarial ways of working, the two sides of a divided house braying at each other across the floor.
(19) However, a no show from the leader of the Commonwealth's biggest member would be a huge blow to the credibility of the organisation.
(20) All of which would be perfectly normal (after all, if there's anything valencianos love more than blowing off their fingers, it's complaining about their team) but for one thing: it was only just after half past nine and there was still an hour to go against hated rivals Real Madrid.
Nope
Definition:
(n.) A bullfinch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oh”, said many, “You must doing it for charity.” Nope.
(2) Nope, he let's it go and now Kelly has walked the bases loaded with one out for the Wild Horse himself, Yasiel Puig.
(3) Nope, he grounds out to you know where, and even though Carpenter bobbles it, he throws over to get the former AL MVP just in time.
(4) "Nope, nope, nope," he said this week, brushing off talk of a reunion.
(5) 49ers 6-0 Panthers, 15:00, 2nd quarter The Panthers are 10 and 13 on 4th down conversions... but nope, the San Francisco defense stuffs Newton!
(6) 3.38am BST Heat 92-93 Spurs, 1:46 remaining in the 4th quarter Nope, it stays San Antonio ball as called, but they have less than a second.
(7) #Nope June 19, 2016 On Wednesday a Facebook spokesman confirmed to the Guardian that it was not using location data, with the same statement as supplied to Fusion.
(8) Nope, says Cole, and neither do courts that grant wiretap warrants.
(10) 4.24am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, top of 8th Nope - that's a fail.
(11) #fundamentals January 5, 2014 1.57am GMT End of first quarter: Saints 0-0 Eagles Nope.
(12) Having persuaded numerous over-achieving women to keep time logs of their days, from dawn gym workouts (nope, me neither) to solving work crises at midnight, she observes that actually “their lives didn’t look that bad”.
(13) Nope, they offered this rather stark evaluation: "It was determined that on the whole these provisions indicate an interest in teaching at a research university and not at a college, like ours, that is both teaching and student centered."
(14) 1.06am BST Cardinals 9 - Pirates 1, Final Nope, just a single, his second of the night - he has half of Pittsburgh's four knocks tonight.
(15) At the last minute Robin popped in and the club owners decided, nope, we’re putting Robin on.
(16) In fact – and the letters make no mention of this – the child benefit tax charge is based on something called your "adjusted net income" (nope, I'd never heard of it either).
(17) Nope, a harmless pop out center field for the first out.
(18) That the Republicans think Rubio – and Cruz, to a lesser extent – is their Great Brown Hope instead of a Great Brown Nope despite all his negatives with Latinos ( he even introduced Mitt Romney during the 2012 Republican convention ) shows, once again, how much work the Reeps need to do to attract non-Cuban Latinos to their party.
(19) I remember watching a video of her eloquent speech at the G8 Summit in London in April – as she spoke in front of the world's leading foreign ministers, I stared at what I knew were tissue expanders and thought: "Nope, no one can tell."
(20) 6.49pm BST FULL TIME: Argentina 0-0 Switzerland Nope!