Bellows

What do we mean by bellows?

An apparatus for producing a strong current of air, as for sounding a pipe organ or increasing the draft to a fire, consisting of a flexible, valved air chamber that is contracted and expanded by pumping to force the air through a nozzle. noun plural

Something, such as the pleated windbag of an accordion, that resembles this apparatus. noun plural

The lungs. noun plural

In photography, that part of a camera which connects the front and back portions and is capable of being extended or closed as desired.

In organ-building, the extensive apparatus by which air is supplied and compressed for the sounding of the pipes.

An instrument or machine for producing a current of air: principally used for blowing fire, either in private dwellings or in forges, furnaces, mines, etc.; also used in organs for producing the current of air by which the pipes and reeds are sounded.

An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. noun

In photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. noun

See Hydrostatic. noun

The ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a valve and tube. noun

Plural form of bellow. noun

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bellow. verb

A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air. noun

Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint. noun

The lungs. noun

Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back. noun

A mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument noun

A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.

Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.

The lungs.

Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.

That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.

Words that are spelled similarly to bellows:
bellows, bellow, fellows, billows, yellows, mellows.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bellows:
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Words that rhyme with bellows:
fellows, bedfellows, yellows, marshmallows, felloes, mellows, banuelos, tomato yellows, vasconcellos, barcellos, goodfellows.

Adjectives that are often used to describe bellows:
small, large, flexible, double, great, old, common, hydrostatic, huge, wooden, hand, metallic, long, ordinary, operated, powered, big, foot, stainless, powerful, driven, proportional, giant, simple, loud, broken, primitive, pneumatic, filled, inner, metal, mechanical, acting, welded, enormous, sealed, organ, fashioned, joint, vast, acoustic, mighty, skin, reset, leaky, outer, hydraulic, larger, pressure, deep, nosed, integral, horizontal, cylindrical, tiny, shaped, leathern, wheezy, power, corrugated, hoarse, universal, chinese, adjustable, gigantic, loaded, diagonal, angry, immense, type, crude, collapsible, evacuated, invisible.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective bellows:
system, type, assembly, camera, balance, design, element, gage, arrangement, valves, apparatus, post.

Consonant match to bellows:
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Words that sound like bellows:
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