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blow-by

blow-by noun: in an internal combustion engine, any burnt or unburnt matter escaping from the cylinder, past the (worn) rings on the piston, and into the crankcase.

Noun

blow-by (countable and uncountable, plural blow-bys)

  1. In an internal combustion engine, any burnt or unburnt matter escaping from the cylinder, past the (worn) rings on the piston, and into the crankcase.

blow-by meaning in Kannada

blow-by in Kannada

ಸೋರುಗಾಳಿ

Forms of blow-by

pluralblow-bys

Questions about blow-by

What does blow-by mean?
Blow-by means in an internal combustion engine, any burnt or unburnt matter escaping from the cylinder, past the (worn) rings on the piston, and into the crankcase.
What is blow-by in Kannada?
Blow-by in Kannada is ಸೋರುಗಾಳಿ. See Blow-by meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is blow-by?
Blow-by is a noun.
What is the plural of blow-by?
The plural of blow-by is blow-bys.

Words near blow-by in the dictionary

  1. blow with the wind
  2. blow-back
  3. blow-backs
  4. blow-buddies
  5. blow-buddy
  6. blow-by
  7. blow-by-blow
  8. blow-by-blows
  9. blow-bys
  10. blow-dried
  11. blow-drier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blow-by (page history and authors); blow-by (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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