blast
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑːst
- Rhymes: -æst
Etymology 1
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(deprecated template usage) From Middle English blast from Old English blǣst (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *blēstaz, *blēstuz (“blowing, blast”). Cognate with obsolete German Blast (“wind, blowing”). More at blow.
Noun
blast (plural blasts)
- A violent gust of wind.
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- And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; / His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.
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- A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
- A hit from a pipe.
- The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace
- many tons of iron were melted at a blast
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 146:
- Blast was produced by bellows worked by four 'blowers', three of whom worked at a time while the fourth stood ready to replace one of the others.
- The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
- An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion[1]:
- Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within, […] most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
- An explosive charge for blasting.
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- Large blasts are often used.
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- A loud, sudden sound.
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- One blast upon his bugle horn / Were worth a thousand men.
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- the blast of triumph o'er thy grave
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII
- Then the captain sung out "Stand away!" and the cannon let off such a blast right before me that it made me deef with the noise and pretty near blind with the smoke, and I judged I was gone.
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- A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
- Bible, Job iv. 9
- By the blast of God they perish.
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- virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast
- Bible, Job iv. 9
- (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
- We had a blast at the party last night.
- (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
- an e-mail blast; a fax blast
- A flatulent disease of sheep.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English blasten, blesten, from Old English blǣstan (“to blow, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *blēstijaną. Compare Middle High German blesten (“to stand out, plop, splash”).
Verb
blast (third-person singular simple present blasts, present participle blasting, simple past and past participle blasted)
- (transitive) To confound by a loud blast or din.
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- Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear.
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- (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
- (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
- (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
- Blast right through it.
- (transitive) To curse; to damn.
- Blast it! Foiled again.
- (transitive) (science fiction) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
- Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.
- (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC[2]:
- A Ricketts and Stuart Holden one-two around the box then created a decent chance for an almost instant equaliser - but Welsh full-back Ricketts blasted over when a calmer finish could have been rewarded.
- To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
- My manager suddenly blasted me yesterday for being a little late to work for five days in a row, because I was never getting myself up on time.
- (transitive) To blight or wither.
- A cold wind blasted the rose plants.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
- c. 1592, Walter Raleigh, “The Lie”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), published 1608:
- Tell age it daily wasteth;
tell honour how it alters;
Tell beauty how she blasteth;
tell fauour how it falters:
And as they shall reply,
giue euery one the lye.
- The bud blasted in the blossom.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To blow, for example on a trumpet.
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- Toke his blake trumpe faste / And gan to puffen and to blaste.
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Interjection
blast
- (UK, dated) To show displeasure; damn
Usage notes
Can be used on its own or in the form "blast it!".
Translations
Etymology 3
From Ancient Greek βλαστός (blastós, “germ or sprout”).
Noun
blast (plural blasts)
- (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
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Etymology 4
From BLAST (an acronym for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
Verb
blast (third-person singular simple present blasts, present participle blasting, simple past and past participle blasted)
- (biology, informal, transitive) To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
- 2004, Andreas Bommarius and Bettina Riebel-Bommarius, Biocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications, p. 425:
- Blasting nucleotide sequences is not always that easy, because there is more ambiguity to the nucleotide sequence, and good hits have to have a 70% homology over the whole sequence to be reliable, compared to 25% with proteins.
- 2004, Andreas Bommarius and Bettina Riebel-Bommarius, Biocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications, p. 425:
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German
Verb
blast
- (deprecated template usage) Second-person plural present of blasen.
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative plural of blasen.
Irish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βλαστός (blastós, “germ, sprout”).
Noun
blast m (genitive singular blast, nominative plural blastaí)
Declension
Derived terms
- -blast
- blastchill (“blast cell”)
Mutation
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Middle English
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Etymology
From Old English blǣst, from Proto-Germanic *blēstuz; equivalent to blasen + -th.
Pronunciation
Noun
blast (plural blastes)
- A blast; a sudden and forceful motion of wind.
- One's breathing or respiring; the act of respiration.
- The blast produced by a musical instrument.
- An emission or expulsion of fire or flames.
- The sound produced by thunder or storms.
- (rare) The making of a pronouncement or proclamation.
- (rare) One's spiritual essence; the soul.
- (rare) A striking or attack.
- (rare) Flatulence; the making of a fart.
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Descendants
References
- “blast (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-27.
Swedish
Noun
blast c (definite form blasten)
- (uncountable) The stem and leaves of a vegetable, of which you're only supposed to eat the root. E.g. in potatoes or carrots.
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