blow-up
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[edit]blow-up (not comparable)
- Inflatable; able to be blown up.
- The kids played with a blow-up sea-monster in the pool.
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[edit]- (informal) An explosion (physical or emotional).
- I heard Jen's blow-up from the next room.
- 2023 November 25, Richard Waters, John Thornhill, “Tech's philosophical rift over AI”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
- How OpenAI resolves the blow-up at its highest levels may help show how well its competitors, in the race for human-level AI, can be expected to handle the deep contradictions in their work between progress and safety.
- (informal) An enlargement (e.g. of a photograph).
- Make a blow-up of the chart so we have more room to draw on it.