Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - billow
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Billow
billow
(billows, billowing, billowed) 1. When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind. The curtains billowed in the breeze... Her pink dress billowed out around her. VERB: V, V out 2. When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upwards or across the sky. Steam billowed out from under the bonnet. ...billowing clouds of cigarette smoke. VERB: V prep/adv, V-ing 3. A billow of smoke or dust is a large mass of it rising slowly into the air. ...smoke stacks belching billows of almost solid black smoke. = cloud N-COUNT: usu N of n
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I. noun Etymology: Old Norse bylgja; akin to Old High German balg bag — more at belly Date: 1552 1. wave; especially a great wave or surge of water 2. a rolling mass (as of flame or smoke) that resembles a high wave • ~y adjective II. verb Date: 1585 intransitive verb 1. to rise or roll in waves or surges 2. to bulge or swell out (as through action of the wind) transitive verb to cause to ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a wave. 2 a soft upward-curving flow. 3 any large soft mass. --v.intr. move or build up in billows. Derivatives billowy adj. Etymology: ON bylgja f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) большая волна, вал 2) fig. лавина 3) poet. море Syn: see wave 2. v. вздыматься, волноваться to billow out - вздыматься от ветра The sails billowed out in the strong wind. ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 v 1 also billow out to swell out like a sail (billowing skirts) 2 literary to rise and roll in waves (smoke billowing upwards) ~2 n C usually plural 1 literary a wave, especially a very large one 2 a moving cloud or mass of something such as smoke or cloth ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1552, from O.N. bylgja "to swell," from P.Gmc. *bulg-, from PIE base *bhel- "to inflate." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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