inblow
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English inblowen, from Old English inblāwan (“to inspire, breathe upon, inflate, puff up”), equivalent to in- + blow. Doublet of inflate.
Verb edit
inblow (third-person singular simple present inblows, present participle inblowing, simple past inblew, past participle inblown)
- (transitive) To blow into; puff up; inflate.
- (transitive) To breathe into; inspire.
- 1998, William C. Chittick, The self-disclosure of God:
- Then the spiritual and sensory faculties follow the creation of this partial spirit that is inblown by way of tawḥīd, for He says, I blew [15:29]. As for the spirit of Jesus, it is inblown through bringing together and manyness, for within him are the faculties ...
- (intransitive) To blow in.
Noun edit
inblow (plural inblows)
- The act or process of blowing in or into; inflation.
- 1949, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers: Volume 109:
- During the full gasification stage, after piercing has been effected, the enlargement of the cracks requires a progressively increasing inblow.
- 1980, O. (Otto) Neugebauer, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR., Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematics abstracts: Volume 419:
- Within the frame of the Pandtl model the evident formula for the principle of rate defect in a turbulent boundary layer are obtained when unregular inblow takes place as well as in tubes with exhausting and inblow.
- That which is blown in.