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blast

See also:BLAST,bläst,blåst,blæst,-blast,andblast-

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishblast,blest,fromOld Englishblǣst(“blowing, blast”),fromProto-West Germanic*blāstu,fromProto-Germanic*blēstuz(“blowing, blast”).

Cognate withWest Frisianblast(“blast”),dialectalDutchblast(“stubborn intent, drumming”),obsoleteGermanBlast(“wind, blowing”),Germanblasen(“to blow”),Dutchblazen(“to blow”),Danishblæst(“wind”),Frenchblaser(“to blunt, dull”).More atblow.

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blast(pluralblasts)

  2. A violent gust of wind.
  3. A forcible stream ofgasorliquidfrom an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
  4. Ahitof arecreational drugfrom apipe.
  5. The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
    Many tons of iron were melted at ablast.
    • 1957,H.R. Schubert,History of the British Iron and Steel Industry,page146:
      Blastwas 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.
  6. Theexhauststeamfrom anengine,driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, anydraughtproduced by the blast.
  7. Anexplosion,especially for the purpose ofdestroyingamassofrock,etc.
    arcblast
    • 2006,Edwin Black,chapter 1, inInternal Combustion‎[1]:
      Blastafterblast,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.
    • 2022January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, inRAIL,number948,page43:
      Signalman Bridges was killed by theblast,as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside theStation Hotelwhere he had been flung.
  8. A verbal attack or punishment; a severe criticism or reprimand.
    My manager gave me ablastyesterday for coming in late.
    • 1917[1874],Mark Twain[pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], edited byAlbert Bigelow Paine,Mark Twain's letters,volume 1,page226:
      P. S.—I gave the P. O. Department ablastin the papers about sending misdirected letters of mine back to the writers for reshipment, and got ablastin return, through a New York daily, from the New York postmaster.
  9. An explosive charge forblasting.
  10. A loud, sudden sound.
  11. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; ablight.
  13. (figuratively,informal)A good time; an enjoyable moment.
    We had ablastat the party last night.
  14. (marketing)Apromotionalmessagesent to an entiremailing list.
    an e-mailblast;a faxblast
  15. Aflatulentdiseaseofsheep.
  16. (bodybuilding,slang)A period of full dosage ofPEDsas opposed to aperiodofreducedintake.
    Coordinate term:cruise
    blastand cruise
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  • →Irish:bleaist
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishblasten,blesten,fromOld Englishblǣstan(“to blow, blast”),fromProto-West Germanic*blēstijan,fromProto-Germanic*blēstijaną.Possibly related toMiddle High Germanblesten(“to stand out, plop, splash”).

Verb

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blast(third-person singular simple presentblasts,present participleblasting,simple past and past participleblasted)

  1. (transitive)To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
  2. (intransitive)To make a loud noise.
  3. (transitive,informal)To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.
    • 2008April 24, neilc...@yahoo, “ARRMO FEST”, inalt.rock-n-roll.metal.oldschool‎[2](Usenet):
      Some kid is in his carblastingrap. You know, bass in the trunk and you can hear it 4 blocks away? I signal over to him and say "Hey, turn it up, I can't hear it." He turns around and says, "Shut Up Grandpa."
  4. (transitive)To shatter, as if by an explosion.
  5. (transitive)To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
    Blastright through it.
  6. (transitive)To curse; to damn.
    Blastit! Foiled again.
  7. (transitive,science fiction)To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
    Chewbaccablastedthe Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.
  8. (soccer)Toshoot;kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
    • 2010December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, inBBC‎[3]:
      A Ricketts and Stuart Holden one-two around the box then created a decent chance for an almost instant equaliser - but Welsh full-back Rickettsblastedover when a calmer finish could have been rewarded.
  9. (transitive,intransitive,slang,African-American Vernacular)To shoot; to attack or shoot (someone or a place).
    They showed upblasting.
    That's when we decided toblasthim.
  10. (transitive)Tocriticizeorreprimandseverely;toverballydisciplineorpunish.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:criticize
    My manager suddenlyblastedme yesterday for being a little late to work for five days in a row, because I was never getting myself up on time.
    • 2014March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, inThe Atlantic‎[4]:
      Mark Pritchard, a Tory member of Parliament,blastedthe show for treating a somber subject as “a matter of fun.”
  11. (transitive)To bringdestructionorruinon; todestroy.
  12. (transitive)Toblightorwither.
    A cold windblastedthe rose plants.
  13. (intransitive,obsolete)To be blighted or withered.
    The budblastedin the blossom.
    • c.1592,Walter Raleigh,“The Lie”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name),published1608:
      Tell age it daily wasteth;
      tell honour how it alters;
      Tell beauty how sheblasteth;
      tell fauour how it falters:
      And as they shall reply,
      giue euery one the lye.
  14. (intransitive,obsolete)Toblow,for example on atrumpet.
  15. (bodybuilding,slang)To have a period of full dosage ofPEDsas opposed to reducing them during acruiseperiod.
    Coordinate term:cruise
    blastand cruise
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blast

  1. (chieflyBritish,informal,mildly blasphemous)Used to showangerordisappointment:damn
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Can be used on its own or in the form "blast it!".

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Etymology 3

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FromAncient Greekβλαστός(blastós,“germ or sprout”).

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blast(pluralblasts)

  1. (cytology)An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g.,lymphoblast,myeloblast).
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Etymology 4

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FromBLAST(an acronym for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).

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blast(third-person singular simple presentblasts,present participleblasting,simple past and past participleblasted)

  1. (biology,informal,transitive)To run anucleotidesequence (fornucleic acids) or anamino acidsequence (forproteins) through aBLAST(Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
    • 2004,Andreas Bommarius, Bettina Riebel-Bommarius,Biocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications,page425:
      Blastingnucleotide 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.
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blast

  1. inflection ofblasen:
    1. second-personpluralpresent
    2. pluralimperative

Irish

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Etymology

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FromAncient Greekβλαστός(blastós,“germ, sprout”).

Noun

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blastm(genitive singularblast,nominative pluralblastaí)

  1. (cytology)blast

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Declension ofblast

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative blast blastaí
Vocative abhlast abhlastaí
Genitive blast blastaí
Dative blast blastaí

Forms with thedefinite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative anblast nablastaí
Genitive anbhlast namblastaí
Dative leis anmblast

donbhlast

leis nablastaí

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Irish mutation
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blast bhlast mblast
Note:Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Maltese

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BorrowedfromEnglishblast.

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blastm(pluralblastijiet)

  1. blast(violent gust of wind)
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Middle English

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FromOld Englishblǣst,fromProto-West Germanic*blāst(i),fromProto-Germanic*blēstuz;equivalent toblasen+‎-th.

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blast(pluralblastes)

  1. Ablast;a sudden and forceful motion of wind.
  2. One's breathing or respiring; the act of respiration.
  3. The blast produced by a musical instrument.
  4. An emission or expulsion of fire or flames.
  5. The sound produced by thunder or storms.
  6. (rare)The making of a pronouncement or proclamation.
  7. (rare)One's spiritual essence; the soul.
  8. (rare)A striking or attack.
  9. (rare)Flatulence; the making of a fart.

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From dialectalblasta,formed fromblädhia,bläda,both variants ofblad(“leaf”).

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blastc(definite formblasten)

  1. (uncountable)Thestemandleavesof a vegetable, of which you're only supposed to eat the root. E.g. inpotatoesorcarrots.
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