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blow-up

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1. blow-upnoun

   An explosion (physical or emotional).

   I heard Jen's blow-up from the next room.

2. blow-upnoun

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

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

3. blow-upadjective

   Inflatable; able to be blown up.

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

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1. blow-up

   Blow-up (sometimes styled as Blowup or Blow Up) is a 1966 mystery drama thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and produced by Carlo Ponti. It was Antonioni's first entirely English-language film, and stars David Hemmings alongside Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. Also featured is 1960s model Veruschka. The film's plot was inspired by Julio Cortázar's short story "Las babas del diablo" (1959).The story is set within the mod subculture of 1960s Swinging London, and follows a fashion photographer (Hemmings) who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. The screenplay was by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, with English dialogue by British playwright Edward Bond. The cinematographer was Carlo di Palma. The film's non-diegetic music was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, while rock group the Yardbirds also feature. In the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival, Blowup won the Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honour. The American release of the counterculture-era film with its explicit sexual content was in direct defiance of Hollywood's Production Code. Its subsequent critical and box-office success influenced the abandonment of the code in 1968 in favour of the MPAA film rating system.Blowup would inspire subsequent films, including Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) and Brian De Palma's Blow Out (1981). In 2012, Blowup was ranked No. 144 in the Sight & Sound critics' poll of the world's greatest films.

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1. Blow-Up

   Blow-Up is a DJ duo from California.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of blow-up in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of blow-up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of blow-up in a Sentence

1. Jackie Speier:

   I had not put my finger on that at the moment, but I was irritated with him and angry with him that he wasn't fully coordinating. And I did say to him, 'Ambassador Sondland, Gordon, I think this is also going to blow up,' and here we are.

2. Ronald David Laing:

   The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.

3. Donald Trump:

   If he would've talked you might not have had the blow up -- all these people dead and all these people wounded because he probably knew about it, we have to be smart. I mean it's hard to believe. We can't waterboard -- listen, nothing's nice about it, but it's your minimal form of torture.

4. Rudy Giuliani:

   I have n’t talked to an on-duty The FBI agent, except for background checks, in a couple of years. That information he’s talking about came from retired The FBI agents who were speculating about what was going to go on. We knew it would blow up, what I was talking about in terms of surprise was a speech we were preparing for the president to give on the Friday before the election like Ronald Reagan did, we were going to probably buy it Election Day before, go on national television and we were going to hit Hillary on all of that stuff. I was as surprised as anyone. The FBI investigated The FBI, closed The FBI and I showed them documentary evidence of what I ’m saying.

5. Nancy Hogshead-Makar:

   To blow up the women’s category is just not the answer. This makes the women’s category meaningless.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blow-Up
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blow-Up
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=blow-up