BLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blower mean? 

• BLOWER (noun)
  The noun BLOWER has 3 senses:

1. a device that produces a current of air

2. a fan run by an electric motor

3. large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals

  Familiarity information: BLOWER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A device that produces a current of air

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

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

bellows ((used in the plural) a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument)

blow drier; blow dryer; hair drier; hair dryer; hand blower (a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair; used for styling hair)

Derivation:

blow (cause to move by means of an air current)

blow (cause air to go in, on, or through)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fan run by an electric motor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

blower; electric fan

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

fan (a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces)

Meronyms (parts of "blower"):

electric motor (a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work)

fan blade (blade of a rotating fan)

hub (the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes)

Derivation:

blow (cause to move by means of an air current)

blow (cause air to go in, on, or through)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

blower; cetacean; cetacean mammal

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

aquatic mammal (whales and dolphins; manatees and dugongs; walruses; seals)

Meronyms (parts of "blower"):

fluke (either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean)

blowhole (the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull)

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

whale (any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head)

Holonyms ("blower" is a member of...):

Cetacea; order Cetacea (an order of Eutheria)

pod (a group of aquatic mammals)

 Context examples 

They were useful, pretty, or funny, a new standish on his table, a little vase for his flower, he always has one, or a bit of green in a glass, to keep him fresh, he says, and a holder for his blower, so that he needn't burn up what Amy calls 'mouchoirs'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)