BLOWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blowing mean? 

• BLOWING (noun)
  The noun BLOWING has 1 sense:

1. processing that involves blowing a gas

  Familiarity information: BLOWING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOWING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Processing that involves blowing a gas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("blowing" is a kind of...):

processing (preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blowing"):

insufflation ((medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity))

Derivation:

blow (shape by blowing)

 Context examples 

What is this? There is a gleam of light; I can feel the air blowing upon me. Here she stopped.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The thermometer was down to twenty-five below zero, and a chill wind was blowing which drove the frost through clothes and flesh to the bones.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Our own whistle was blowing hoarsely, and from time to time the sound of other whistles came to us from out of the fog.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

These bubbles are the result of massive newborn stars blowing out cavities in their surroundings.

(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)

I know it must be frustrating to have to stop, look, and listen, and then be conservative until you see which way the wind is blowing.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We found the ship in the river, surrounded by a crowd of boats; a favourable wind blowing; the signal for sailing at her mast-head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The butterfly's two "wings" are giant bubbles of hot, interstellar gas blowing from the hottest, most massive stars in this region.

('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)

A chill wind was blowing that nipped him sharply and bit with especial venom into his wounded shoulder.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Without grasses to anchor the dunes in place, their sand grains are blowing in the wind.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

It is a mystery how bands like these are confined to such narrow widths, because Uranus and Neptune have very broad westward-blowing wind jets.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)