English Dictionary

bellows

/ˈbɛl.oʊz/

noun

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.

The blacksmith used the bellows to stoke the fire.

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.