blowpipe

Questions about blowpipe

What is another word for blowpipe?

It depends which blowpipe you mean. In the sense “a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat”, the synonyms are blowtube, blow tube. Across all 2 senses there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of blowpipe?

WordNet records no antonym for blowpipe. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for blowpipe split into groups?

Because blowpipe carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for blowpipe come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of blowpipe

• Full entry for blowpipeAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for blowpipeWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.