bellows
IPA: bˈɛɫoʊz
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.
- 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.
- (figurative) That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To operate a bellows; to direct air at (something) using a bellows.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To expand and contract like a bellows.
- (transitive) To fold up like a bellows; to accordion.
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Examples of "bellows" in Sentences
- _ 'says I.' For a bellows, 'says she; 'a _bellows_, to blow the fire with.
- The bellows is a heavy-duty unit: It can handle up to 5,000 pounds of leveling capacity per pair.
- Some bellows from the home crowd and a rather hollow beating of a drum somewhere as Fabio comes on for Evra.
- It may be dusted on from the hand in a broadcast way, or applied with a powder-bellows, which is a better and less wasteful method.
- The copper gilt grate is a marvel of workmanship, and the mantelpiece is most delicately finished; the fire-irons are beautifully chased; the bellows are a perfect gem.
- A loud abrasive buzzing bellows from the nightstand and I raise my head, only to be blinded by the red light emanating from the small - in size, not volume - machine against a backdrop of pure blackness.
- Exactly; and this fact gives me the opportunity of making you understand the action of the lungs by explaining that of the bellows, which is in everybody's hands, but which three-fourths of the people use, without troubling themselves to inquire how it is made or acts.
- I want to show you, if you can take a shot of this model here, I'll try to point it out right here, there's a pipe, an external pipe, which goes down the whole bottom portion of the tank, and right at this portion right here, there's a thing they call bellows, and ice has built up there.
- Lesser things ran inside and outside, and tickled my skin until the light in my eyes fell to shutters and the back of my brain met it's front where darkness came, and darkness shivered, in the shallow pool of my unconsciousness where God looms and Hell calls in short bellows, slow cups, and weathered coughs.
- This feeling of singing against the chest with the weight of air pressing up against it is known as "breath support," and in Italian we have even a better word, "apoggio," which is breath prop. The diaphragm in English may be called the bellows of the lungs, but the apoggio is the deep breath regulated by the diaphragm.
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