English-Thai Dictionary

billow

VT ทำให้ พอง  tham-hai-pong

 

billow out

PHRV กาง ออก  พอง ออก  belly out kang ook

 

billowy

A ที่ เต็มไปด้วย คลื่น 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BILLOW

n.A great wave or surge of the sea, occasioned usually by violent wind. It can hardly be applied to the waves of a river, unless in poetry, or when the river is very large.

 

BILLOW

v.i.To swell; to rise and roll in large waves, or surges.

 

BILLOW-BEATEN

a.Tossed by billows.

 

BILLOWING

ppr. Swelled into a large waves or surges.

 

BILLOWY

a.Swelling, or swelled into large waves; wavy; full of billows, or surges.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BILLOW

Bil "low, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. bylgja billow, Dan. bölge, Sw. bölja;akin to MHG. bulge billow, bag, and to E. bulge. See Bulge. ]

 

1. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll. Cowper.

 

2. A great wave or flood of anything. Milton.

 

BILLOW

Bil "low, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Billowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Billowing. ]

 

Defn: To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The billowing snow. " Prior.

 

BILLOWY

BILLOWY Bil "low *y, a.

 

Defn: Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

billow

bil low |ˈbilō ˈbɪloʊ | ▶noun a large undulating mass of something, typically cloud, smoke, or steam. • archaic a large sea wave. ▶verb [ no obj. ] (of fabric ) fill with air and swell outward: her dress billowed out around her. • (of smoke, cloud, or steam ) move or flow outward with an undulating motion: smoke was billowing from the chimney. DERIVATIVES bil low ing adjective, bil low y |ˈbilō -ē |adjective ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Old Norse bylgja.

 

Oxford Dictionary

billow

bil ¦low |ˈbɪləʊ | ▶noun a large undulating mass of something, typically cloud, smoke, or steam. • archaic a large sea wave. ▶verb [ no obj., with adverbial of direction ] (of fabric ) fill with air and swell outwards: her dress billowed out around her. (as adj. billowing ) : a billowing skirt and shirt. • (of smoke, cloud, or steam ) move or flow outward with an undulating motion: smoke was billowing from the chimney-mouth | (as adj. billowing ) : all I could see was thick, billowing smoke. DERIVATIVES billowy adjective ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Old Norse bylgja.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

billow

billow noun 1 billows of smoke: cloud, mass. 2 archaic the billows that break upon the shore: wave, roller, breaker. ▶verb 1 her dress billowed around her: puff up /out, balloon (out ), swell, fill (out ), belly out. 2 smoke billowed from the chimney: swirl, spiral, roll, undulate, eddy; pour, flow.

 

billowing

billowing adjective rolling, swirling, undulating, surging, heaving, billowy, swelling, rippling.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

billow

billow noun 1 billows of smoke: cloud, mass. 2 archaic the billows that break upon the shore: wave, roller, breaker. ▶verb 1 her dress billowed out around her: puff up /out, balloon (out ), swell, fill out, bulge out, belly out. 2 smoke was billowing from the chimney: pour, flow; swirl, spiral, roll, undulate, rise and fall, eddy.

 

billowing

billowing adjective billowing clouds of dust: rolling, swirling, undulating, rising and falling, billowy, swelling, rippling; rare undulant.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

billow

bil low /bɪ́loʊ /動詞 自動詞 〈布が 〉 (風を受けて )ふくらむ (out ); ｟文 ｠〈煙が 〉もくもくと立ち上る ; ｟比喩的に ｠〈疑念などが 〉ふくらむ .名詞 C 〖通例 ～s 〗1 ｟文 ｠大波 .2 (風による煙 蒸気 布地などの )ふくらみ, かたまり, うねり .

 

billowy

b í l low y /-i /形容詞 大波の立つ, うねりの高い ; うず巻く .