What does blow mean?
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(a blow on the head)
(blow on the soup to cool it down)
(the bump threw him off the bicycle)
(The wind blew from the West)
(blow one's nose)
(it came as a shock to learn that he was injured)
(The leaves were blowing in the wind the boat drifted on the lake The sailboat was adrift on the open sea the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore)
(the tree was bent almost double by the gust)
(The whistle blew)
(Blow a glass vase)
(he gave his nose a loud blow he blew out all the candles with a single puff)
(I botched the dinner and we had to eat out the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement)
(He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree)
(He blew a lot of money on his new home theater)
(The trumpets blew)
(She blew the horn)
(Blow my hair dry)
(The wind blew the leaves around in the yard)
(The whales blew)
(shove off! The children shoved along Blow now!)
(certain insects are said to blow)
(The story blew their cover The double agent was blown by the other side)
(blow a horse)
(The lightbulbs blew out The fuse blew)
(The tire blew We blew a tire)
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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.