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Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.
Steve Forbes

Meaning of "blow-up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BLOW-UP

blow-up  [ˈbləʊˌʌp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLOW-UP

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Blow-Up is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BLOW-UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Blowup

Blowup, or Blow-Up, is a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. It was Antonioni's first entirely English-language film. The film also stars Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Tsai Chin and Gillian Hills as well as sixties model Veruschka. The screenplay was by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, with English dialogue by British playwright Edward Bond. The film was produced by Carlo Ponti, who had contracted Antonioni to make three English-language films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The plot was inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story, "Las babas del diablo" or "The Devil's Drool", translated also as "Blow Up" in Blow-up and Other Stories, and by the life of Swinging London photographer David Bailey. The film was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock. The music is diegetic, as Hancock noted: "It's only there when someone turns on the radio or puts on a record." Nominated for several awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Blowup won the Grand Prix.

Definition of blow-up in the English dictionary

The definition of blow-up in the dictionary is an enlarged photograph or part of a photograph. Other definition of blow-up is a quarrel or argument.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BLOW-UP


blowup
ˈbləʊˌʌp
break-up
ˈbreɪkˌʌp
checkup
ˈtʃɛkˌʌp
cleanup
ˈkliːnˌʌp
close-up
ˈkləʊsˌʌp
dial-up
ˈdaɪəlˌʌp
follow-up
ˈfɒləʊˌʌp
fuck-up
ˈfʌkˌʌp
linkup
ˈlɪŋkˌʌp
look-up
ˈlʊkˌʌp
pull-up
ˈpʊlˌʌp
put-you-up
ˈpʊtjuːˌʌp
sit-up
ˈsɪtˌʌp
speed-up
ˈspiːdˌʌp
split-up
ˈsplɪtˌʌp
step-up
ˈstɛpˌʌp
take-up
ˈteɪkˌʌp
tune-up
ˈtjuːnˌʌp
warm-up
ˈwɔːmˌʌp
wind-up
ˈwaɪndˌʌp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLOW-UP

blow through
blow tube
blow up
blow-by
blow-by-blow
blow-dried
blow-dries
blow-dry
blow-in
blow-out
blowback
blowball
blowdown
blower
blowfish
blowflies
blowfly
blowgun
blowhard
blowhole

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLOW-UP

a turn-up
brew-up
build-up
get-up
grown-up
hold-up
hook-up
line-up
made-up
make-up
pick-up
pin-up
pop-up
screw-up
set-up
setting-up
stand-up
start-up
turn-up
wake-up

Synonyms and antonyms of blow-up in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «blow-up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLOW-UP

Find out the translation of blow-up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of blow-up 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-up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

吹胀
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

blow-up
570 millions of speakers

English

blow-up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उड़ा हुआ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفجير المتابعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

раздутия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

blow-up
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গাট্টা আপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

blow-up
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

meletupkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Blow-up
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ブローアップ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

블로우 업
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyedhot
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thổi lên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தகர்ப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उडवून
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

patlamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

blow- up
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

blow-up
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

роздуття
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sufla - up
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

blow- up
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

blaas -up
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blow-up
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blåse opp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of blow-up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BLOW-UP»

The term «blow-up» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.848 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BLOW-UP» OVER TIME

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

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2 QUOTES WITH «BLOW-UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word blow-up.
1
Steve Forbes
Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.
2
Conan O'Brien
In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLOW-UP»

Discover the use of blow-up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blow-up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Antonioni's Blow-up
These texts draw on new research and effectively situate the film in the social and creative contexts that informed Antonioni's screenplay and art direction - on the one hand through an account of the milieu of fashionable photographers and ...
Philippe Garner, David Mellor, 2010
2
Blow-up in Quasilinear Parabolic Equations
Originally published in Russian by Nauka, Moscow, in 1987. The index is one slender page. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
‎1995
3
Blow-up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain
In Blow-Up, a collection of essays that tackle aesthetics from the angle of neuroscience, Warren Neidich proposes a different and wholly original paradigm for thinking through cultural history and the philosophy of the human subject.
Warren Neidich, 2003
4
Blow Up the Humanities
A short, sharp, and provocative book, Blow Up the Humanities, has esteemed scholar Toby Miller declaring that there are two humanities in the United States.
Toby Miller, 2012
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The Great American Blow-Up: Puffery in Advertising and Selling
How does advertising really work? This thoroughly revised edition of Ivan Preston’s popular classic, The Great American Blow-Up, provides new examples of puffery and deceit in advertising.
Ivan L. Preston, 1996
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Blow-up Theories for Semilinear Parabolic Equations
There is an enormous amount of work in the literature about the blow-up behavior of evolution equations. It is our intention to introduce the theory by emphasizing the methods while seeking to avoid massive technical computations.
Bei Hu, 2011
7
Air Kiss and Tell: Memoirs of a blow-up doll
The hilarious and refreshingly honest memoir that tracks the highs and lows of the star of The Celebrity Apprentice and Australia's Next Top Model .
Charlotte Dawson, Jo Thornely, 2012
8
Arthur and the Big Blow-Up
The soccer team is headed for the playoffs but the two best players are arguing. Arthur and Buster help the Brain and Francine get along.
‎2005
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Blow-up Theory for Elliptic PDEs in Riemannian Geometry (MN-45)
This splitting is known as the integral theory for blow-up. In this book, the authors develop the pointwise theory for blow-up. They introduce new ideas and methods that lead to sharp pointwise estimates.
Olivier Druet, Emmanuel Hebey, Frédéric Robert, 2009
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Blow-up in Nonlinear Sobolev Type Equations
The monograph is devoted to the study of initial-boundary-value problems for multi-dimensional Sobolev-type equations over bounded domains.
Alexander B. Al'shin, Maxim O. Korpusov, Alexey G. Sveshnikov, 2011

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLOW-UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blow-up is used in the context of the following news items.
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RNLI volunteers save two men in a blow-up dinghy
The dinghy was a small blow-up craft bought from the seafront. They had no proper life saving equipment with them. When the lifeboat arrived ... «ITV News, Jun 15»
2
Aftermath of Dodgers bullpen blow up
That was Clayton Kershaw's infamous blow-up start last season, when he allowed seven runs and couldn't get out of the second inning. «True Blue LA, Jun 15»
3
Space blankets, giant trolleys and a blow-up dinosaur …
Conrad James (in mask) and friends: 'The dinosaur was a present from my brother.' Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian. «The Guardian, Jun 15»

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