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Meanings of blower in English

Portuguese
cetáceos
Catalan
cetaci

Large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals.

        cetáceos
        Portuguese
        ventilador

        A fan run by an electric motor.

              ventilador
              Synonyms
              Examples for "electric fan"
              Examples for "electric fan"
              1
              He made the discovery sitting in the draught of an electric fan.
              Increasing Human Efficiency in Business / A Contribution to the ...
              2
              His room was stifling despite the wide-flung windows and the electric fan.
              The Enchanted Canyon
              3
              The use of an electric fan is an effective means of drying.
              Every Step in Canning: The Cold-Pack Method
              4
              An electric fan whirred in the front room, moving heavy air around.
              Stinger
              5
              Beside Craig you're like an electric fan in competition with a storm-wind.
              The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel
              Usage of blower in English
              1
              Stanley wasn't a whistle-blower by any stretch, said government prosecutor Patrick Stokes.
              Reuters
              2
              Yes; the injudicious use of a blower is injurious to any boiler.
              The Traveling Engineers' Association to Improve the Locomotive E...
              3
              Russia has granted the fugitive American whistle blower, Edward Snowden, temporary asylum.
              BBC
              4
              He was born in the South, and was a glass-blower by occupation.
              Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories
              5
              Then a special high temperature stove and the blower for the forge.
              The fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla
              6
              So the blower let him off, and he came down without hurt.
              The Yellow Fairy Book
              7
              Do me a favour and get on your blower to find out.'
              Under orders
              8
              A man's word was as good as his gold in the blower.
              Burning Daylight
              9
              But the whistle-blower's sandal snagged on an uneven paver, and he fell.
              Driving Heat
              10
              It's got a four-forty under the hood with a blower on it.
              No country for old men
              11
              Spencer turned off the leaf blower and dropped it to the ground.
              Crushed
              12
              Daylight ranged alongside of him and emptied Carmack's sack into a blower.
              Burning Daylight
              13
              A gob of plastic adheres to the blower and starts to burn.
              The new yorker
              14
              Somewhere a blower went on, puffing cool, humid air at his face.
              The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
              15
              Question 4: Whistle-blower site Wikileaks is back in the news again.
              Reuters
              16
              Just as the blower went off, he said, We can't use my work-office.
              Dayworld
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              Translations for blower
              Catalan
              cetaci
              Blower through the time
              Blower across language varieties
              United States of America
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Common