English Dictionary

bellows

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbɛl.oʊz/

名詞

古語 くだけた表現 比喩的用法

A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.

日本語の意味

ふいご：制御された量の空気を、指定された場所に送り出すための装置。容器の体積を変化させることで空気の流れを生み出す機構を指す。

He pumped the bellows steadily to keep the forge's flame hot enough for the blacksmith to weld the sword.

彼は鍛冶屋が剣を鍛造できるように炉の火を十分に熱く保つため、ふいごを一定のリズムで踏み続けた。

意味（1）

A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.

When wood fires were common, so were bellows for helping start them.

意味（2）

Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.

意味（3）

(informal or archaic) The lungs.

“Why, who should J. B. mean by Joe, but old Joe Bagstock—Joseph—your slave—Joe, Ma’am? Here! Here’s the man! Here are the Bagstock bellows, Ma’am!” cried the Major, striking himself a sounding blow on the chest.

意味（4）

(photography) Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.

意味（5）

(figuratively) That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.

bellows （ plural ）