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blowout
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A tyre blow-out destroyed his first attempt, injury ended the second.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre / tire 2 a sudden release of oil and gas from a well 3 a social function, especially one with large quantities of food 4 (context slang sports English) A sporting contest that is decidedly one-sided and whose ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed. Modern wells have blowout preventers intended to prevent such an occurrence. Prior to the advent of pressure control ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
blowout \blowout\ n. a gay or lavish festivity. [colloq.] Syn: gala, gala affair, jamboree. the sudden deflation of an inflatable tire due to a puncture or rupture, often accompanied by a bang. the sudden escape of gas or liquid confined under pressure, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an easy victory [syn: runaway , romp , laugher , shoo-in , walkaway ] a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus; "the right front tire had a blowout"; "as a result of the blowout we lost all the lights" a gay festivity [syn: gala , gala affair , jamboree ...
Usage examples of blowout.
The 747, still weighing over six hundred thousand pounds, shuddered and slowed, the antiskid system working hard to prevent any tire blowouts as Phil stood on the brakes, finally bringing them to a halt at the western end of the runway with five hundred feet left to spare.
Perkins anticipated a blowout, but Fagin was remarkably self-contained.
Encountering chuckholes, cracks, and patches in the pavement, the tires stuttered as hard as rapping hammers, and Dylan worried about the consequences of a blowout at this lightning pace, but he pressed the Expedition to 96, taxing the shock absorbers, torturing the springs, onward to 97, with engine screaming and wind of their own manufacture shrieking at the windows, to 98, between bracketing big rigs, around a sleek Jaguar with a cruise-missile whoosh that elicited a disapproving blast of the sports car's horn, to 99.
As well as the blowouts decompressing entire tubes, suited Mosdva shot at each other with beam and projectile weapons as they struggled to penetrate their enemy’s territory and disable critical systems.
No lack of I tumbleweeds there, every one is the leader of the herd, and only the evil have blowouts.
They had gone along with no more trouble than blowouts here and there.
Then when I got here, about two days later, Major Delinn suffered an arterial blowout and had to be put in cryosuspension because there’s no medical facility here that can handle that kind of thing.
If she had detonated when she hit, the blowout of her drive tubes’ escaping plasma would probably have vaporized most of her.
Though how Joe could see out the spider-web cracks decorating the windshield was a mystery to Herbie Goldfarb, and why they didn't suffer three or four blowouts on the way to the ball field the VISTA volunteer never knew.
Without the dual blowout and the fortuitous day ticket, I wouldn't be here at all.
But hatches leading up have a passive power assist to make it easy to get away from the blowout.
It mean us keep you pen up for five days, and then skin you out for a old-fashioned tribal blowout.
He paused at the wind erosion blowouts, examining the exposed stones.