The difference between Bellows and Lung
When used as nouns, bellows means 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, whereas lung means a biological organ that extracts oxygen from the air.
Bellows is also verb with the meaning: to operate a bellows.
check bellow for the other definitions of Bellows and Lung
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Bellows as a 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.
Examples:
"When wood fires were common, so were bellows for helping start them."
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Bellows as a noun:
Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.
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Bellows as a noun (informal, or, archaic):
The lungs.
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Bellows as a noun (photography):
Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.
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Bellows as a noun (figurative):
That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.
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Bellows as a verb (intransitive, transitive):
To operate a bellows; to direct air at (something) using a bellows.
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Bellows as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):
To expand and contract like a bellows.
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Bellows as a verb (transitive):
To fold up like a bellows; to accordion.
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Bellows as a noun:
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Bellows as a verb:
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Lung as a noun (anatomy):
A biological organ that extracts oxygen from the air.