- air billow
- noun
: a wave at the interface of two horizontal layers of air caused by their difference in velocity
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
air billow
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billow — ► NOUN 1) a large undulating mass of cloud, smoke, or steam. 2) archaic a large sea wave. ► VERB 1) (of fabric) fill with air and swell outwards. 2) (of smoke, cloud, or steam) move or flow outward with an undulating motion. DERIVATIVES billowy … English terms dictionary
billow — I UK [ˈbɪləʊ] / US [ˈbɪloʊ] verb [intransitive] Word forms billow : present tense I/you/we/they billow he/she/it billows present participle billowing past tense billowed past participle billowed 1) to be filled with air and swell out like a sail… … English dictionary
billow — bil|low1 [ bılou ] verb intransitive 1. ) to be filled with air and swell out like a sail: The sheets billowed on the clothes line. billow out: His cloak billowed out behind him. 2. ) if smoke or steam billows, it rises or moves in clouds: Smoke… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
billow — [[t]bɪ̱loʊ[/t]] billows, billowing, billowed 1) VERB When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind. The curtains billowed in the breeze... [V out] Her pink dress billowed out around her. [V ing] ...the billowing … English dictionary
billow — noun 1》 a large undulating mass of cloud, smoke, or steam. 2》 archaic a large sea wave. verb (of fabric) fill with air and swell outwards. ↘(of smoke, cloud, or steam) move or flow outward with an undulating motion. Derivatives billowy adjective… … English new terms dictionary
billow — [ˈbɪləʊ] verb [I] 1) to rise or move in clouds Black smoke billowed over the city.[/ex] 2) to be filled with air and swell out like a sail Their robes billowed in the wind.[/ex] … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
billow cloud — noun : a long narrow cloud or usually a series of such clouds roughly parallel to each other caused by the flow of one layer of air over another producing waves at their interface the relatively cold crests of which are cloud capped and their… … Useful english dictionary
cloud — [n1] mass of water particles in air billow, brume, darkness, dimness, film, fog, fogginess, frost, gloom, haze, haziness, mare’s tail*, mist, murk, nebula, nebulosity, obscurity, ol’ buttermilk sky*, overcast, pea soup*, pother, puff, rack, scud … New thesaurus
billowy — billow ► NOUN 1) a large undulating mass of cloud, smoke, or steam. 2) archaic a large sea wave. ► VERB 1) (of fabric) fill with air and swell outwards. 2) (of smoke, cloud, or steam) move or flow outward with an undulating motion. DERIVATIVES… … English terms dictionary
List of English words of Old Norse origin — This article is part of a series on: Old Norse Dialects … Wikipedia
