blow-hole
1blow|hole — «BLOH HOHL», noun. 1. a hole for breathing, in the top of the head of whales, porpoises, and dolphins. 2. a hole in the ice to which whales, seals, and walruses come to breathe. 3. a hole through which air or gas escapes or can escape. 4. a… …
2blow-hole — n 1.) a hole in the surface of ice where water animals such as ↑seals come to breathe 2.) a hole in the top of the head of a ↑whale, ↑dolphin etc through which they breathe …
3Blow hole — Blowhole Le terme blowhole (ou blow hole) désigne le montage d un ventilateur sur une tour d ordinateur, où le ventilateur extrait l air chaud présent à l intérieur de la tour. Ces ventilateurs font partie de la catégorie de l aircooling.… …
4blow-hole — noun (C) 1 a hole in the surface of ice to which water animals such as seals (seal1 (1)) come to breathe 2 a hole in the top of the head of a whale, dolphin etc through which they breathe …
5blow·hole — /ˈbloʊˌhoʊl/ noun, pl holes [count] 1 : a hole that is on the top of a whale or related animal s head and is used by the animal for breathing 2 : a hole in the ice to which seals and other animals that are living in the water under the ice come… …
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7blow hole colostomy — an operation sometimes done for toxic megacolon in which the distended walls have become thin and fragile; it consists of creation of a colostomy of the transverse colon for decompression, and is usually accompanied by creation of a loop… …
8blow — 1. v. & n. v. (past blew; past part. blown) 1 a intr. (of the wind or air, or impersonally) move along; act as an air current (it was blowing hard). b intr. be driven by an air current (waste paper blew along the gutter). c tr. drive with an air… …
9blow — [bləʊ ǁ bloʊ] verb blew PASTTENSE [bluː] blown PASTPART [bləʊn ǁ bloʊn] [transitive] 1. informal if you blow money on something, you spend a lot of money on it, often money that you cannot afford: • He blew his wages on a new stereo …
10blow a hole in something — blow/make a hole in (something) if something makes a hole in an amount of money, it takes a lot of that money to pay for it. The trip made a hole in our savings, but it was worth it. The new tax is likely to blow an enormous hole in our profits …
