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blow

1. verb To leave, usually hastily. The train is coming soon—time to blow.
2. verb To squander, spoil, or ruin something. I can't believe you didn't go to the job interview. Why would you blow such a big opportunity? Oh man, I definitely blew it with Gabi this time—I said some horrible things to her.
3. verb To spend one's money excessively or irresponsibly. I can't believe I blew so much money at the mall today. At least I get paid next week.
4. verb To react furiously and/or violently to something or someone, to the point of losing control of one's behavior. Mom totally blew when I told her I had failed math. Don't blow, it's just a tiny scratch on the car.
5. verb To play a musical instrument, typically a wind instrument. I heard Al blows a mean sax.
6. verb, slang To take a drug by snorting it. Those two must have blown in the bathroom because they definitely seem high now.
7. verb, slang To smoke marijuana. Jim reeks of weed, so he must have been blowing earlier.
8. verb, slang To perform oral sex on a male. Ew, I can't believe he thought you would blow him on your first date!
9. noun A problem, challenge, or setback. After losing the lead in the division, the team suffered another blow when their best player got injured in practice.
10. noun A big, elaborate party, typically marked by the consumption of alcohol. Man, I am so hung-over today—that was quite a blow last night.
11. noun, slang Cocaine. Hey, got any blow? I'm looking for a good time tonight.

blown (up)

Sl. intoxicated. I guess I'm a little too blown up to drive.

blown

verb
See blown away

blown

verb
See blown out

blown

verb
See blown up
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2 2011-2016 Global Cost and Profit of Blown Film Industry
Blown Film Market 2016-2021 Key Manufacturers' Analysis and Review Report
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Nine-layer blown film: why it's a challenge, what it takes to succeed: eight years after nine-layer blown films were first introduced, only a handful of processors have mastered the challenges of making them. Machine suppliers are now setting up lab lines that could make entry easier
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Improving the quality of blown film, Rick von Kraus, Addex
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Other blown film machine builders have launched their own MDO orienters.
MDO films: lots of promise, big challenges: machine-direction orientation is still discovering new market opportunities. But the technical difficulties are so great that some big projects never came of age. New equipment could make it easier
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Two blown film dies sported unusual rotating cores, a technique commonly used in pipe and tubing dies to prevent weld lines, but not in blown film before now.
Extruder outputs rise, downstream units gain flexibility
They introduced polyols, isocyanates, surfactants, catalysts, flame retardants, and other additives that boost performance in non-ozone-depleting blown foams.
Polyurethanes: foams go 'green' at ever-lower cost: a great deal of effort is going into formulating rigid and flexible foams for lower cost and better properties, despite the transition to "cleaner" blowing agents. Improving fire and smoke performance is another challenge
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