blister
English
Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#BLISTERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#BLISTER blister, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#BLISTER blestre, from a GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Germanic languages#BLISTER source. Compare Middle Dutch blyster (“swelling”), Old Norse blastr (“a blowing”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈblɪstə(ɹ)/Category:English 2-syllable words#BLISTERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BLISTER
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈblɪstɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#BLISTERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BLISTER
- Rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɪstə(ɹ)#BLISTERCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪstə(ɹ)/2 syllables#BLISTER
Noun
blister (countable and uncountable, plural blisters)Category:English lemmas#BLISTERCategory:English nouns#BLISTERCategory:English uncountable nouns#BLISTERCategory:English countable nouns#BLISTERCategory:English countable nouns#BLISTERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BLISTERCategory:Pages with entries#BLISTERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BLISTER
- A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease, or infection.
- 1967, Donald Howard Grainger, Don't Die in the Bundu:
- Inspect them for rub marks and blisters; tape or bandage rub marks; clean the skin around a blister, use a sterilised needle to puncture it at its outer edge and press out the fluid, then bandage.Category:English terms with quotations#BLISTER
- A swelling on a plant.
- (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#BLISTER) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
- 1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):
- 'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister, a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well […]Category:English terms with quotations#BLISTER
- A bubble, as on a painted surface.
- (roofingCategory:en:Roofing#BLISTER) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
- A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
- A cause of annoyance.
- 1923, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves, page 39:
- I couldn't help thinking how dashed happy I could have contrived to be in this place if only Aunt Agatha and the other blisters had been elsewhere.Category:English terms with quotations#BLISTER
- 1933, Collier's Illustrated Weekly, volume 91, page 14:
- I will say, however, that we fanned her well — her and her old blister of a mother and a bewhiskered old goat named Boris.Category:English terms with quotations#BLISTER
- 2013, P.G. Wodehouse, Blandings: TV Tie-In, page 126:
- 'We mustn't laugh about it, my boy. It's no joking matter. It's very wrong to shoot Mr Baxter.'Category:English terms with quotations#BLISTER
'But he's a blister.'
'He is a blister,' agreed Lord Emsworth, always fairminded. 'Nevertheless. . . . Remember, he is your tutor.'
- 2017, Joe Archibald, The Willie Klump MEGAPACK®, page 302:
- Willie suddenly realized the heat really wasn't off the criminal persons, and he sprang into action. The blonde blister also recovered surprisingly fast and threw the big wordy tome at the Klump coco .Category:English terms with quotations#BLISTER
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#BLISTER) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- antiblister
- beblister
- blister agent
- blister beetle
- blister blight
- blister cell
- blister fly
- blisterfoil
- blister lichen
- blisterlike
- blister machine
- blister pack
- blister plaster
- blister steel
- blistery
- blood blister
- fever blister
- microblister
- orange blister beetle
- shadow blister effect
- skin and blister
- striped blister beetle
- water blister
Descendants
- → Polish: blister
Translations
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Verb
blister (third-person singular simple present blisters, present participle blistering, simple past and past participle blistered)Category:English lemmas#BLISTERCategory:English verbs#BLISTERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BLISTERCategory:Pages with entries#BLISTERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BLISTER
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BLISTER) To raise blisters on.
- a chemical agent that blisters the skinCategory:English terms with usage examples#BLISTER
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:
- Caliban: As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore.Category:English terms with quotations#BLISTER
- (cookingCategory:en:Cooking#BLISTER, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BLISTER) To sear after blaching.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#BLISTER) To have a blister form.
- 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 26:
- A poorly formulated mortar mixture will result in plaster that blisters and cracks.Category:English terms with quotations#BLISTER
- 2004, Frank Hamer with Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:
- An overfired glaze often blisters by the volatilization of part of its composition. It also reaches a stage where its viscosity is too low to keep it on the pot.Category:English terms with quotations#BLISTER
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BLISTER) To criticise severely.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#BLISTER) To break out in blisters.
Synonyms
Translations
Anagrams
Category:en:Fire#BLISTERDutch
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from English#BLISTERCategory:Dutch terms derived from English#BLISTER blister (“blister; blister pack”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɪs.tər/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#BLISTER
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#BLISTERAudio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɪstərCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɪstər#BLISTERCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɪstər/2 syllables#BLISTER
- Hyphenation: blis‧ter
Noun
blister m (plural blisters, diminutive blistertje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#BLISTERCategory:Dutch nouns#BLISTERCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#BLISTERCategory:Dutch nouns with red links in their headword lines#BLISTERCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#BLISTERCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#BLISTERCategory:Pages with entries#BLISTERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BLISTER
- blister pack
- Synonyms: doordrukstrip, blisterpak, blisterverpakking
French
Pronunciation
Noun
blister m (plural blisters)Category:French lemmas#BLISTERCategory:French nouns#BLISTERCategory:French countable nouns#BLISTERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#BLISTERCategory:French masculine nouns#BLISTERCategory:Pages with entries#BLISTERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BLISTER
Polish
Etymology
Category:Polish terms derived from Middle English#BLISTERCategory:Polish terms derived from Old French#BLISTERBorrowed from EnglishCategory:Polish terms borrowed from English#BLISTERCategory:Polish terms derived from English#BLISTER blister.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblis.tɛr/Category:Polish 2-syllable words#BLISTERCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#BLISTER
- Rhymes: -istɛrCategory:Rhymes:Polish/istɛr#BLISTERCategory:Rhymes:Polish/istɛr/2 syllables#BLISTER
- Syllabification: blis‧ter
Noun
blister m inanCategory:Polish lemmas#BLISTERCategory:Polish nouns#BLISTERCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#BLISTERCategory:Polish masculine nouns#BLISTERCategory:Polish inanimate nouns#BLISTERCategory:Pages with entries#BLISTERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BLISTER
Declension
Further reading
- “blister”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN (in Polish)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from English#BLISTERCategory:Romanian terms derived from English#BLISTER blister.
Noun
blister n (plural blistere)Category:Romanian lemmas#BLISTERCategory:Romanian nouns#BLISTERCategory:Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines#BLISTERCategory:Romanian countable nouns#BLISTERCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#BLISTERCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#BLISTERCategory:Pages with entries#BLISTERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#BLISTER
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | blister | blisterul | blistere | blisterele |
| genitive-dative | blister | blisterului | blistere | blisterelor |
| vocative | blisterule | blisterelor | ||
