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bellows
1[ bel-ohz, -uhz ]
noun
- a device for producing a strong current of air, consisting of a chamber that can be expanded to draw in air through a valve and contracted to expel it through a tube.
- anything resembling or suggesting bellows in form, as the collapsible part of a camera or enlarger.
- the lungs.
Bellows
2[ bel-ohz ]
noun
- George Wesley, 1882–1925, U.S. painter and lithographer.
bellows
/ ˈbɛləʊz /
noun
- Also calledpair of bellows an instrument consisting of an air chamber with flexible sides or end, a means of compressing it, an inlet valve, and a constricted outlet that is used to create a stream of air, as for producing a draught for a fire or for sounding organ pipes
- photog a telescopic light-tight sleeve, connecting the lens system of some cameras to the body of the instrument
- a flexible corrugated element used as an expansion joint, pump, or means of transmitting axial motion
Other Words From
- bellows·like adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of bellows1
Example Sentences
The bell tower bellows loudly when a little muscle power is put into it.
Some operate like bellows, creating an accordion-like sound as they aspirate.
Another Maine operative, a Democrat who has worked with Bellows agreed.
“Susan Collins was elected 18 years ago, when I was graduating from college,” Bellows told The Daily Beast.
To be clear, Bellows is not a millennial, but rather half a generation older.
The bellows, being expanded by the wind, pulls down the pallet in the wind-chest; the bellows does all the hard work.
Owing to its inertia, no heavy bellows weight can be set into motion rapidly.
Wind from the organ bellows enters the pipe foot F, and raises the pressure in the chamber C.
The box B is permanently supplied with air under pressure from the bellows.
There were twenty-two stops on the Swell, and the Swell bellows was placed inside the Swell box.
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