blister
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
construction
cooking
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
medicine
roofing
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English blister, from Old French blestre, from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Dutch blyster (“swelling”), Old Norse blastr (“a blowing”).
Inflected forms:
form: blisters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blisters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blistering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blistered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blistered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease, or infection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Inspect them for rub marks and blisters; tape or bandage rub marks; clean the skin around a blister, use a sterilised needle to puncture it at its outer edge and press out the fluid, then bandage.
gloss: A swelling on a plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister, a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well […]
gloss: A bubble, as on a painted surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: blister card
blister pack
gloss: A cause of annoyance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I couldn't help thinking how dashed happy I could have contrived to be in this place if only Aunt Agatha and the other blisters had been elsewhere.
I will say, however, that we fanned her well — her and her old blister of a mother and a bewhiskered old goat named Boris.
'We mustn't laugh about it, my boy. It's no joking matter. It's very wrong to shoot Mr Baxter.'
'But he's a blister.'
'He is a blister,' agreed Lord Emsworth, always fairminded. 'Nevertheless. . . . Remember, he is your tutor.'
Willie suddenly realized the heat really wasn't off the criminal persons, and he sprang into action. The blonde blister also recovered surprisingly fast and threw the big wordy tome at the Klump coco .
gloss: A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To raise blisters on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a chemical agent that blisters the skin
Caliban: As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore.
gloss: To sear after blaching.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To have a blister form.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A poorly formulated mortar mixture will result in plaster that blisters and cracks.
An overfired glaze often blisters by the volatilization of part of its composition. It also reaches a stage where its viscosity is too low to keep it on the pot.
gloss: To criticise severely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To break out in blisters.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: bleb
blain
vesicate
Derived words: antiblister
beblister
blister agent
blister beetle
blister blight
blister cell
blister fly
blisterfoil
blister lichen
blisterlike
blister machine
blister pack
blister plaster
blister steel
blistery
blood blister
fever blister
microblister
orange blister beetle
shadow blister effect
skin and blister
striped blister beetle
water blister
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