Meanings
present singular third person inblows · participle present inblowing · past inblew · participle past inblown
- transitiveTo breathe into; inspire.
Then the spiritual and sensory faculties follow the creation of this partial spirit that is inblown by way of tawḥīd, for He says, I blew [15:29]. As for the spirit of Jesus, it is inblown through bringing together and manyness, for within him are the faculties ...
1998, William C. Chittick, The self-disclosure of God - intransitiveTo blow in.
plural inblows
- The act or process of blowing in or into; inflation.
During the full gasification stage, after piercing has been effected, the enlargement of the cracks requires a progressively increasing inblow.
1949, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers: Volume 1091 more example
Within the frame of the Pandtl model the evident formula for the principle of rate defect in a turbulent boundary layer are obtained when unregular inblow takes place as well as in tubes with exhausting and inblow.
1980, O. (Otto) Neugebauer, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR., Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematics abstracts: Volume 419 - That which is blown in.
Origin
- Old Englishinblāwan“to inspire, breathe upon, inflate, puff up”
- Middle Englishinblowen
- Englishinblow
From Middle English inblowen, from Old English inblāwan (“to inspire, breathe upon, inflate, puff up”), equivalent to in- + blow. Doublet of inflate.
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