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is blown over
verb
To produce an air current.
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In air-blast tunnel freezers and belt freezers, precooled air at approximately −40 °C is blown over the food products.
If air is blown over the cage of a rat as it receives an electric shock to the foot, rodents downwind of the jolting event react with a full-blown stress response, as if they, too, had been shocked.
The wind tunnel, which predates powered flight by 32 years, is a test apparatus in which air is blown over a model in a test section, creating an effect comparable to flight.
Up on the ridge the hardy souls doing the 100km in a single shot are having a tough time – a hailstorm pelts them with marble-sized ice balls, and one of the pitstops is blown over.
He followed up the vacuum cleaner line with other products, such as the Air Multiplier bladeless fan, introduced in 2009, in which air drawn through the base unit is blown over the inner surface of an ethereal airfoil-shaped ring, inducing air surrounding the ring to flow in an uninterrupted stream.
Science answers: Effects on marine life should be minimal if the plume is blown over the ocean.
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"I was blown over," Mr. Dowling said.
Rickie Fowler was blown over by Rory McIlroy and was oblivious to the Eastenders references early on.
One hundred and sixty giant power transmission towers and thousands of posts were blown over by the typhoon.
"There's been a little bit of a scuffle at Stoke, but it's blown over now.
The tower where it was stationed was blown over backward into a pond, with the camera going to the bottom.
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