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

  1. 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."

  2. Bellows as a noun:

    Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.

  3. Bellows as a noun (informal, or, archaic):

    The lungs.

  4. Bellows as a noun (photography):

    Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.

  5. Bellows as a noun (figurative):

    That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.

  1. Bellows as a verb (intransitive, transitive):

    To operate a bellows; to direct air at (something) using a bellows.

  2. Bellows as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To expand and contract like a bellows.

  3. Bellows as a verb (transitive):

    To fold up like a bellows; to accordion.

  1. Bellows as a noun:

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  1. Lung as a noun (anatomy):

    A biological organ that extracts oxygen from the air.

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