blow-up

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Inflatable

   Inflatable; able to be blown up.

   • The kids played with a blow-up sea-monster in the pool.
2. 2

   An explosion (physical or emotional).

   • I heard Jen's blow-up from the next room.
   • But BBD said that “several” wholesalers it spoke with said they are “waiting out the storm” — expecting the backlash to fade a few weeks following the initial controversy, as many similar blow-ups have in the past.
   • 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.
3. 3

   An enlargement (e.g. of a photograph).

   • Make a blow-up of the chart so we have more room to draw on it.

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