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Meaning of "billowing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BILLOWING

billowing  [ˈbɪləʊɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BILLOWING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Billowing is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BILLOWING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of billowing in the English dictionary

The definition of billowing in the dictionary is rising and swelling at the same time.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BILLOWING


fast-flowing
ˌfɑːstˈfləʊɪŋ
flowing
ˈfləʊɪŋ
following
ˈfɒləʊɪŋ
glowing
ˈɡləʊɪŋ
going
ˈɡəʊɪŋ
growing
ˈɡrəʊɪŋ
inflowing
ˈɪnˌfləʊɪŋ
knowing
ˈnəʊɪŋ
lowing
ˈləʊɪŋ
mellowing
ˈmeləʊɪŋ
nonyellowing
nɒnˈjɛləʊɪŋ
ongoing
ˈɒnˌɡəʊɪŋ
outgoing
ˈaʊtˌɡəʊɪŋ
overflowing
ˌəʊvəˈfləʊɪŋ
reflowing
riːˈfləʊɪŋ
sewing
ˈsəʊɪŋ
showing
ˈʃəʊɪŋ
swift-flowing
ˈswɪftˌfləʊɪŋ
throwing
ˈθrəʊɪŋ
whistle-blowing
wɪsəlˌbləʊɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BILLOWING

billing
Billings method
billingsgate
billion
billionaire
billionth
Billiton
billman
billon
billow
billowiness
billowy
billposter
billposting
billsticker
billsticking
billy
billy goat
billy goat beard

WORDS THAT END LIKE BILLOWING

borrowing
bowing
crowing
cult following
drawing
fast-growing
glass-blowing
harrowing
ingrowing
mind-blowing
mowing
narrowing
owing
public sector borrowing
rice growing
rice-growing
rowing
sowing
there is no knowing
unknowing
vine-growing

Synonyms and antonyms of billowing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BILLOWING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «billowing» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of billowing
balloon · belly · bloat · breaker · bulge · cloud · course · crest · deluge · dilate · emit · expand · flood · flow · gush · heave · outpouring · rise · roll · roller · run · rush · spew · spout · stream · surge · swell · swirl · tide · uprush · upsurge · wave

Translation of «billowing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BILLOWING

Find out the translation of billowing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of billowing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «billowing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

滚滚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ondulante
570 millions of speakers

English

billowing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

billowing
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يتصاعد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вздымающиеся
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ondulante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

billowing
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

s´échappait
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berbunyi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wogenden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

渦巻く
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

격렬
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Billowing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cuồn cuộn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரவணைப்பில் விரக்தியின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बिलोअरिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

billowing
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ondeggiante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

falujące
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

здіймаються
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tălăzuire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

billowing
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

borrelende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

böljande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bølgende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of billowing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BILLOWING»

The term «billowing» is quite widely used and occupies the 43.417 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BILLOWING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «billowing» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «billowing» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about billowing

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BILLOWING»

Discover the use of billowing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to billowing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Billowing: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations ReorganizingHuman wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.ndash;Joseph StoryReorganizing ndash; ReconstructionModern man's capacity for ...
‎2008
2
Adobe After Effects CS4 Visual Effects and Compositing ...
Billowing. Smoke. Fractal Noise works fine to create and animate thin wispy smoke and mist. It will not, however, be much help if you need to fabricate thick, billowing clouds. Instead of a plug- in effect, all you need is a good still cloud element ...
Mark Christiansen, 2010
3
Valvular Heart Disease: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease
The terms prolapse, flail wave, billowing valve, and Barlow valve are used without precise definitions. Because a minor degree of leaflet billowing was diagnosed as mitral valve prolapse, the shape of the annulus, whether saddle or ski slope ...
Catherine M. Otto, 2009
4
The Last of Steam: A Billowing Pictorial Pageant of the ...
This collection of pictures contains 300 photographs and a minimum of text. The sights, smells and sounds of steam come alive in this book as the waning years of steam railroading throughout the United States is presented.
Joe G. Collias, 1994
5
Sketching People: Life Drawing Basics
BILLOWING FOLD The billowing fold (or flying fold) is created when wind is the dominant force acting on cloth, such as on a flag. Because the folds are dynamically swelling and gathering, the patterns are constantly changing, but the  ...
Jeff Mellem, 2009
6
Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology
An Anthology Helen Gilbert. Bullets of the rattling gun Ha! Man dies the death of goats And so to heaven by force! My tale is about four robbers Who came to meet me one day One day, as days pass away, And said: aAafa of billowing robes ...
Helen Gilbert, 2013
7
Texturing & Modeling: A Procedural Approach
An ontogenetic model of billowing can yield realistic dynamic models of fireballs, billowing smoke, and growing cumulus clouds. The distinctive behavior we call " billowing" results from rapid advection in a fluid medium, causing turbulent flow ...
David S. Ebert, 2003
8
Tibetan Logic
place in the east covered by strongly billowing smoke, the continuous tangible object, cold, does not exist because of being a place covered by strongly billowing smoke.”He writes: [In that,] “aplace coveredby strongly billowing smoke” isa ...
Katherine Manchester Rogers, 2014
9
The Anatomy and Biology of the Human Skeleton
D. Gentry Steele. TABLE 9.12 Formal Standards of Auricular Surface Morphology 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 Biological Affinities TABLE 9.13 Discriminant Functions to Distinguish American Blacks. billowing and very fine granularity; ...
D. Gentry Steele, 1988
10
Mitral Valve Transesophageal Echocardiography
Prolapse Billowing Prolapse and billowing abc Fig. 4.2 Diagram demonstrating mitral valve motion with prolapse. Mitral valve prolapse is produced when the mitral valve apparatus allows for excessive leaflet motion during diastole promoting ...
Martin G. St. John Sutton, Alan R. Maniet, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BILLOWING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term billowing is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Firefighters tackle blaze in Etruria after 'black smoke seen billowing
A Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: "It was a difficult job as there was lots of black smoke which was billowing across the ... «Stoke Sentinel, Jul 15»
2
Terror on the Tube: Londoners remember 7/7 bombings
Dense billowing smoke poured into the carriage, and it felt like the air had been suctioned out of the carriage. We couldn't breathe," she says. «CNN International, Jul 15»
3
Hillsborough anti-drug group upset about July 4th medical …
The Temple Terrace float included a giant mechanical joint, with smoke billowing out of it. Chris Cano is the executive director for the Central ... «WFLA, Jul 15»
4
Giambattista Valli
And a finale, which brought us models valiantly slogging down the runway in a tonnage of tulle, also brought us a billowing galleon's worth of ... «Style.com, Jul 15»
5
Fire damages home in Trenton's South Ward, displaces one
Trenton firefighters arrived shortly after 6 p.m. to find smoke billowing from the rear of the first-floor apartment. A report of someone trapped in ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
6
'It's not like Argo': the trials of a tour guide in Iran
At one of the mosques we visited, Tina the former social worker lost her battle with a billowing, floral-patterned chador she had been required to ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
7
Cars worth £52k wrecked in fire attack
He said: “I heard bangs and I went to the window to look out and immediately saw smoke billowing above the rooftops and flames through the ... «Edinburgh Evening News, Jul 15»
8
Three buildings along Whiskey Row consumed by fire
THAT'S WHY SING THIS BIG HEAVY BLACK SMOKE BILLOWING OUT OF THE STRUCTURE. LOOKS LIKE FIREFIGHTERS WILL BE HERE ... «WLKY Louisville, Jul 15»
9
Nyong'o, Blunt sparkle at Christian Dior couture garden show
... like medieval undergarments, floated by elegantly alongside gowns with high-cinched waists and wide, billowing sleeves that mirrored the ... «WFSB, Jul 15»
10
Beyoncé-inspired skyscraper to be built in Melbourne
Well, if you haven't, the video mostly features Beyoncé flapping a swathe of billowing black fabric in front of a wind machine, and women who ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Billowing [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/billowing>. May 2024 ».
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