billow

  • 11billow — 1. noun /ˈbɪləʊ,ˈbɪloʊ/ A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of water, smoke or sound And the brooklet has found the billow Though they flowed so far apart …

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  • 12billow — verb Billow is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑cloak, ↑curtain, ↑sail, ↑skirt, ↑smoke …

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  • 13billow — [[t]bɪ̱loʊ[/t]] billows, billowing, billowed 1) VERB When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind. The curtains billowed in the breeze... [V out] Her pink dress billowed out around her. [V ing] ...the billowing …

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  • 14billow — 1 verb (I) 1 also billow out to swell out like a sail: billowing skirts 2 literary to rise and roll in waves: smoke billowing upwards 2 noun (countable usually plural) 1 literary a wave, especially a very large one 2 a moving cloud or mass of… …

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  • 15billow — bil•low [[t]ˈbɪl oʊ[/t]] n. 1) a great wave or surge of the sea 2) any surging mass: billows of smoke[/ex] 3) to rise or roll in billows; surge 4) to swell out, puff up, etc 5) to cause to billow • Etymology: 1545–55; < ON bylgja wave …

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  • 16billow —    Ale, aui, aui ale; nī au (rare); ōhuku ale (rising);    ♦ billow out, puha u, pō olopū, pūnohu; olopū, poholua (as sails); kōwehe (as a dress) …

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  • 17Billow Hotel — (Чеджу,Южная Корея) Категория отеля: 3 звездочный отель Адрес: 1565 18 Gwakji Ri Aeweol …

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  • 18billow — /bil oh/, n. 1. a great wave or surge of the sea. 2. any surging mass: billows of smoke. v.i. 3. to rise or roll in or like billows; surge. 4. to swell out, puff up, etc., as by the action of wind: flags billowing in the breeze. v.t. 5. to make… …

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  • 19billow — Synonyms and related words: bag, balloon, be poised, belly, belly out, bilge, bore, bouge, break, breakers, bug, bulge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, comb, comber, crash, dash, dilate, dirty water, distend, eagre, ebb and flow, goggle, gravity… …

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  • 20billow — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. surge, swell. n. undulation, wave. See water, convexity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. wave, surge, crest, tide; see wave 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at wave . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. swell,… …

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