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PRONUNCIATION OF BLOW DOWN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLOW DOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Blow down is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb blow down in English.

WHAT DOES BLOW DOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of blow down in the English dictionary

The definition of blow down in the dictionary is to open a valve in a steam boiler to eject any sediment that has collected.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BLOW DOWN

PRESENT

Present
I blow down
you blow down
he/she/it blows down
we blow down
you blow down
they blow down
Present continuous
I am blowing down
you are blowing down
he/she/it is blowing down
we are blowing down
you are blowing down
they are blowing down
Present perfect
I have blown down
you have blown down
he/she/it has blown down
we have blown down
you have blown down
they have blown down
Present perfect continuous
I have been blowing down
you have been blowing down
he/she/it has been blowing down
we have been blowing down
you have been blowing down
they have been blowing down
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I blew down
you blew down
he/she/it blew down
we blew down
you blew down
they blew down
Past continuous
I was blowing down
you were blowing down
he/she/it was blowing down
we were blowing down
you were blowing down
they were blowing down
Past perfect
I had blown down
you had blown down
he/she/it had blown down
we had blown down
you had blown down
they had blown down
Past perfect continuous
I had been blowing down
you had been blowing down
he/she/it had been blowing down
we had been blowing down
you had been blowing down
they had been blowing down
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will blow down
you will blow down
he/she/it will blow down
we will blow down
you will blow down
they will blow down
Future continuous
I will be blowing down
you will be blowing down
he/she/it will be blowing down
we will be blowing down
you will be blowing down
they will be blowing down
Future perfect
I will have blown down
you will have blown down
he/she/it will have blown down
we will have blown down
you will have blown down
they will have blown down
Future perfect continuous
I will have been blowing down
you will have been blowing down
he/she/it will have been blowing down
we will have been blowing down
you will have been blowing down
they will have been blowing down
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would blow down
you would blow down
he/she/it would blow down
we would blow down
you would blow down
they would blow down
Conditional continuous
I would be blowing down
you would be blowing down
he/she/it would be blowing down
we would be blowing down
you would be blowing down
they would be blowing down
Conditional perfect
I would have blow down
you would have blow down
he/she/it would have blow down
we would have blow down
you would have blow down
they would have blow down
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been blowing down
you would have been blowing down
he/she/it would have been blowing down
we would have been blowing down
you would have been blowing down
they would have been blowing down
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you blow down
we let´s blow down
you blow down
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to blow down
Past participle
blown down
Present Participle
blowing down
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLOW DOWN

blow a fuse
blow a gasket
blow a kiss
blow away
blow dryer
blow hot and cold
blow in
blow into
blow job
blow moulding
blow off
blow off steam
blow on
blow one´s brains out
blow one´s horn
blow one´s own trumpet
blow one´s top
blow out
blow over
blow sky-high

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLOW DOWN

back down
break down
bring the house down
cut down
down
get down
go down
hands down
hold down
lay down
put down
ride down
sit down
step down
take down
turn down
up and down
upside down
when the chips are down
wind down
write down

Synonyms and antonyms of blow down in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «blow down» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLOW DOWN

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

Translator English - Chinese

排污
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

purga
570 millions of speakers

English

blow down
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीचे झटका
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفجير أسفل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

продувки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

derrubar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিচে ঝাঁকি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chablis
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tamparan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

umfallen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ブローダウン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

블로우 다운
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyedhot
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xả đáy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கீழே ஊது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खाली फुंकणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yıkmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

blow down
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cios w dół
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

продувки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sufla în jos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χτύπημα κάτω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

blaas af
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blåsa omkull
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blåse ned
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of blow down

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLOW DOWN»

The term «blow down» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.876 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BLOW DOWN» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLOW DOWN»

Discover the use of blow down in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blow down and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Real Enriques Surfaces
Recall that, given a normal surface Y and a regular degree 1 map ip : Y' — > Y, there is a finite set S C Y such that each component of C — ip~l(S) is a curve and ip : Y' \ C -> Y \ S is a biholomorphism; t/) is called the blow- down of C, and C is ...
Alexander Degtyarev, Ilia Itenberg, Viatcheslav Kharlamov, 2000
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Applied Industrial Energy and Environmental Management
2.4.2.6 Heat Energy Loss due to Blow-down Steam boilers regularly eject some water in order to prevent precipitated salts from forming sludge, which can foul heat exchange surfaces and can be carried over into the super-heater and steam  ...
Zoran Morvay, Dušan Gvozdenac, 2008
3
Handbook of Petroleum Processing
Drum pressure. The maximum operating pressure for this drum will be about 0.5 psig or that of the water disengaging drum tied to the same flare header. Condensable blow-down drum and system is used for collection and containment of ...
David S. J. Jones, Peter R. Pujadó, 2006
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Water Chemistry of Nuclear Reactor Systems 8: Proceedings of ...
The regular SG blow-down water chemical control covers cation conductivity, pH value, sodium, chloride and sulphate content. Steam generator blow-down water and feed-water chemical control data of Russian operating WWER-1000 and ...
‎2000
5
Sour Gas and Related Technologies
8.6.1.2 Liquid Blow Down Looking at Figure 8.3A, the temperature of the hold up for the duration of the blow down is significantly higher than that of the Vapour blow down case. Figure 8.3B shows there is a significant amount of solid CO2 ...
Ying Wu, John J. Carroll, Weiyao Zhu, 2012
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Multiphase Flow Handbook
Mllllrnt.... ,J Ullfllnrt... : 301f[""*"'-/ ffffnht,... ^ ffff*H.._ 3.5 4.0 J 4.5 Blow-down (low Ufi 6.0- 6.5- With blow-down Without blow-down FIGURE 7.13 Fluid velocity distributions with and without blow-down. Figure 7.14 and Figure 7.15, respectively.
Clayton T. Crowe, Efstathios Michaelides, John D. Schwarzkopf, 2005
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Modern Blast Furnace Ironmaking: An Introduction
At the end of the blow–down, when the level of the coke is coming close to the tuyeres, the CO2 formed at the tuyeres has insufficient opportunity to be transformed to CO and the CO2 percentage in the top gas increases. As soon as half of the ...
Maarten Geerdes, Hisko Toxopeus, Cor van der Vliet, 2009
8
Geometrical Optics and Related Topics
Thus a generalized blow-down map can be thought of as a 'distributional isomorphism' in the sense that it changes the structure near the boundary but only to finite order. Notice that the composite of two generalized blow-down maps is again ...
Ferruccio Colombini, Nicolas Lerner, 1997
9
Energy: Management, Supply and Conservation
8.9.3 Boiler blow-down With steam boilers it is necessary to eject a small proportion of the water regularly in order to remove sludge and to maintain acceptable levels of total dissolved solids. This process is called blow-down and it prevents ...
Clive Beggs, 2012
10
Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical ...
Cooling tower blow-down versus number of concentrations in circulating water; percent of total circulating water to be wasted to maintain various concentrations. Used by permission of Hensley, J. C. (ed.) Cooling Tower Fundamentals, 2nd Ed.
Ernest E. Ludwig, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLOW DOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blow down is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Are Short Sellers Wrong in California Resources?
By our estimate, the blow down value for California Resource's reserves is about $7 billion. Another draw here is that the annuity value shows ... «24/7 Wall St., Jul 15»
2
Lightning, snow and other weather fascinate author
This was due to the Chinook winds that sometimes blow down from the Rocky Mountains and produce extreme changes in the weather. «Washington Times Herald, Jul 15»
3
Starc and Hazlewood polish off Essex
There's a lot of posters here who know their cricket so it's again like the big bad wolf trying to blow down the brick house, we all know the ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
4
Political Posturing in the United States
... which has never quite surrendered the idea of Communism as the big bad wolf, huffing and puffing and trying to blow down the house of the ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
5
3 little pig houses left at Ohio road
The Dayton Daily News reports that no big bad wolves had huffed and puffed enough to blow down any houses by late afternoon. Authorities ... «Waterbury Republican American, Jul 15»
6
'Wayward Pines' Recap: A Deadly Plot Is Discovered
Ethan makes it clear he knows there's a plot to blow down the wall. Howard refuses to give up the names of the others in his posse, so Ethan ... «BuddyTV, Jul 15»
7
VIDEO: Massive Wildfires Force Thousands to Flee in Saskatchewan
... which has combined with that of fires from Alaska and the Northwest Territories to blow down into the United States as far as the Midwest. «Truthdig, Jul 15»
8
Could Urban Trees Become A Source Of Lumber?
Barmon said people remove a lot of trees from the city for all kinds of reasons: They get diseases, they die, they blow down or grow so big they ... «KUOW News and Information, Jul 15»
9
Dad's fury after asbestos left outside house for two days
“If it gets windy all that dust is going to blow down the street but the council just don't seem to care.” A Worcester City Council spokesman said regulations on the ... «Worcester News, Jul 15»
10
Thousands evacuated as wildfires continue to rage
... which has combined with that of fires from Alaska and the Northwest Territories to blow down into the United States as far as the Midwest. «The Weather Network, Jul 15»

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