An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.
The noun 'bellows' is an uncountable noun, a form of binary noun, a word for something with two parts making up the whole; a shortened form for 'a pair of'.The singular form is a pair of bellows.The plural form is pairs of bellows.
To absorb thermal stresses.
The sound is produced by alternate expansion and contraction of the bellows.
The main components to every piano accordion are the treble keyboard, bellows and bass keyboard. The treble keyboard is similar to a piano or organ and the keys are arranged at right angles to the musical instrument with the tops of the keys pointing inwards towards the bellows. The bellows is located between the treble and bass ends and its main function is to drive air through the tone chamber to excite the reeds producing sound. The left hand side consists of a Stradella bass mechanism which is standard for all piano accordions.
A thermometer measures temperature - most are now electric but they used to have alcohol or mercury in them. A barometer measures air pressure - they are now electric but used to have air in them (in a bellows with a spring).
You didn't say which meaning of the word you want to use. Bellows can mean a plural verb, as in yelling. The coach bellows at the team. The cow bellows when it's time to be milked. Bellows can also be a noun, as in the device used to force air through a furnace or forge. The blacksmith pumped the bellows to make the fire hotter. There was a crack in the bellows, and they didn't work well.
George Bellows has written: 'The lithographs of George Bellows' 'Bellows George (Untitled)' 'George Bellows and the war series of 1918' -- subject(s): Exhibitions 'The drawings of George Bellows' 'George Wesley Bellows' 'George Bellows, works from the permanent collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery' -- subject(s): Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Exhibitions
Albert Fitch Bellows died in 1883.
Some of the styles of Bellows expansion joints that are available for purchase are the Single Bellows Fixed Flange, the Single Bellows Floating Flange and the Single Bellows Raised Face Flange.
Bellows is already plural. The singular is bellow.
Kent Bellows was born in 1949.
Dr. Bellows was created in 1965.
Gil Bellows is 178 cm.
Jim Bellows is 5' 7".
The address of the Bellows Falls Writers Center is: 7 Canal Street, Bellows Falls, VT 05101-1367
A bellows is an air pump . A pump organ would have a bellows . A poet might conceivably use bellows as a figure of speech to stand for a pump organ.
The address of the Bellows Falls Historical Society Museum is: Po Box 466, Bellows Falls, VT 05101-0466