blow-up in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for blow-up in the English»French Dictionary

I.blow-up [Brit, Am ˈbloʊˌəp] N

1. blow-up PHOTO:

blow-up

agrandissement m

2. blow-up (argument):

blow-up inf

engueulade f sl

II.blow-up [Brit, Am ˈbloʊˌəp] ADJ (inflatable)

blow-up doll, toy, dinghy

gonflable

I.blow up VB [Brit bləʊ -, Am bloʊ -] (blow up)

1. blow up (in explosion):

blow up building:

sauter

blow up bomb:

exploser

2. blow up wind, storm:

blow up

se lever

3. blow up trouble, problem, affair:

blow up

éclater

4. blow up (become angry) inf:

blow up person:

s'emporter

to blow up at sb

s'emporter après qn

to blow up at sb

engueuler qn inf

5. blow up (inflate):

it blows up

c'est gonflable

it won't blow up!

je n'arrive pas à le/la gonfler!

II.blow up VB [Brit bləʊ -, Am bloʊ -] (blow [sth/sb] up, blow up [sb/sth]) (in explosion)

blow up building, person

faire sauter

blow up bomb

faire exploser

III.blow up VB [Brit bləʊ -, Am bloʊ -] (blow [sth] up, blow up [sth])

1. blow up (inflate):

blow up tyre, balloon

gonfler

2. blow up PHOTO (enlarge):

blow up

agrandir

3. blow up (exaggerate):

blow up

exagérer

the story has been blown (up) out of all proportion

l'histoire a été exagérément grossie

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to blow up a balloon

gonfler un ballon

Translations for blow-up in the French»English Dictionary

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exploser véhicule, immeuble:

to blow up

faire exploser personne, dispositif: avion, voiture

to blow up

faire exploser gaz, court-circuit: immeuble

to cause [sth] to blow up

faire exploser qn inf

to make sb blow up inf

boursoufler événement

to blow up

détruire qc à l'explosif

to blow sth up

monter qc en épingle

to blow sth up out of proportion

éclater personne:

to blow up inf

gonfler (avec la bouche) ballon, pneu

to blow up

la situation est grave, ça va péter d'un jour à l'autre fig

the situation is serious, it could blow up any day now

blow-up in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for blow-up in the English»French Dictionary

blow-up [ˈbləʊʌp] N PHOTO

blow-up

agrandissement m

I.blow up VB intr a. fig

blow up

éclater

blow up with anger

s'emporter

II.blow up VB trans

1. blow up (fill with air):

blow up

gonfler

2. blow up PHOTO:

blow up

agrandir

3. blow up (destroy):

blow up

faire exploser

4. blow up (exaggerate):

blow up

gonfler

it was blown up out of all proportion

ça a été gonflé exagérément

Translations for blow-up in the French»English Dictionary

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laisser sa colère exploser

to blow up

gonfler ballon

to blow up

regonfler (avec la bouche) ballon

to blow up again

sauter bâtiment, pont, bombe

to blow up

faire sauter qn/qc

to blow sb/sth up

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English

This is best understood using the formalism of symplectic cutting, of which symplectic blow-up is a special case.

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The blow-up of an ideal is an operation of schemes which replaces the given ideal with a principal ideal.

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Deformation to the normal cone is a blow-up technique used to prove many results in algebraic geometry.

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The new reality sets in fast; therefore, the time to "make things better" is as soon as possible after the blow-up.

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The resolution step leads to a worst-case exponential blow-up in the size of the formula.

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Film thickness and blow-up ratio can be varied by altering the take-up rate of the rollers, the internal pressure in the blown tube, and the melt extrusion rate.

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Both the onshore and the offshore yuan have been rallying this week, driven predominantly by a blow-up in yuan borrowing costs offshore and tighter liquidity.

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He is about to blow-up big time.

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Studies estimated that the fire covered 3,000 acres in 10 minutes during this blow-up stage, an hour and 45 minutes after they had arrived.

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Conversely, a blow-up print is a regular format film converted to larger size (i.e., 35mm to 70mm).

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