单词 | to blow bubbles |
释义 | > as lemmasto blow bubbles b. To form or shape by means of inflation, as to blow bubbles, blow glass. Const. simply, or up, out. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > set (air) in motion [verb (transitive)] > form (bubbles) by blowing blow1589 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with glass > work with glass [verb (transitive)] > specific processes blow1589 grind1651 centre1688 muff1877 muffle1908 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet D iiij Not like to glasse mettal, to be blowne in..fashion of euerie mans breath. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall ii. 40 Glass bubles, such as are wont to be blown at the flame of a Lamp. 1869 J. Tyndall Notes on Light (1873) ii. 66 Spending his days in blowing soap-bubbles. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 659 The bulb of glass being put into the mould, and blown while very hot. to blow bubbles P2. to blow bubbles: to produce bubbles by blowing through liquid with the mouth, a tube, etc.; spec. to create soap bubbles by blowing through a pipe, shaped wand, etc.; (figurative) to devise baseless or insubstantial theories; cf. sense A. 2a.Earliest in extended use: to amuse oneself childishly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > confirmation of hypothesis, theory > theorize [verb (intransitive)] > without foundation to blow bubbles1783 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xxxii. 207 Bring vp your children if you haue them, and looke to your stocke, and leaue your ranging thorow the world, blowing bubbles, and making all that know you, or not know you, to laugh. a1676 M. Hale Judgm. True Relig. (1684) ii. 32 Boys..blow Bubbles out of a Wall-nut-shell. 1783 W. Cowper Let. 29 Sept. (1981) II. 165 One Generation blows Bubbles, and the next breaks them. 1844 J. Aspinall Addr. Delivered at Free-Trade Meeting 7 It is blowing bubbles and hunting shadows in the very crisis of a nation's fate. 1953 Sewanee Rev. 61 240 It attacks fantasy as preposterous, and this takes as its supreme value a sort of plain common sense which creates illusions only to destroy them, and blows bubbles to watch them burst. 1978 A. MacLeish Let. 8 Mar. (1983) 445 The trout have found holes in the brook ice and are blowing bubbles. 2011 S. Sahota Ours are Streets 110 A couple of girls blowing bubbles down their straws took the table next to us. < as lemmas |
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