blast
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English blast, blest, from Old English blǣst (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāstu, from Proto-Germanic *blēstuz (“blowing, blast”).
Cognate with West Frisian blast (“blast”), dialectal Dutch blast (“stubborn intent, drumming”), obsolete German Blast (“wind, blowing”), German blasen (“to blow”), Dutch blazen (“to blow”), Danish blæst (“wind”), French blaser (“to blunt, dull”). More at blow.
Inflected forms:
form: blasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blasted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; / His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.
Their warm, thick under covering of fine wool protects them from the coldest blasts.
gloss: A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the tuyeres of a blast furnace, a person's mouth, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many tons of iron were melted at a blast.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: arc blast
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.
Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.
gloss: A verbal attack or punishment; a severe criticism or reprimand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My manager gave me a blast yesterday for coming in late.
P. S.—I gave the P. O. Department a blast in the papers about sending misdirected letters of mine back to the writers for reshipment, and got a blast in return, through a New York daily, from the New York postmaster.
gloss: An explosive charge for blasting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts
Large blasts are often used.
gloss: A loud, sudden sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: One blast upon his bugle horn / Were worth a thousand men.
the blast of triumph o'er thy grave
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.
gloss: Unwanted noise from a microphone.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] the microphone has been unostentatiously working out its own destiny here and abroad, mainly in America. Evolution seems to be most promising (in the elimination of "microphone blast" and background noises — common faults of the earlier types) in the direction of the electrostatic, or condenser, microphone, […]
gloss: A sudden pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Vertue preferd from fell deſtuctions blaſt,
gloss: A good time; an enjoyable moment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
informal
uncountable
examples: We had a blast at the party last night.
gloss: A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an e-mail blast; a fax blast
gloss: A flatulent disease of sheep.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to a period of reduced intake.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: blast and cruise
gloss: To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear.
gloss: To make a loud noise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Some kid is in his car blasting rap. 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."
gloss: To shatter, as if by an explosion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Although Maroczy favored solid, positional chess, there were times when he changed his style and blasted his opponents' defenses to bits.
gloss: To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Blast right through it.
gloss: To curse; to damn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Blast it! Foiled again.
gloss: To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.
gloss: To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To shoot; to attack or shoot (someone or a place).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
transitive
examples: They showed up blasting.
That's when we decided to blast him.
And some kid comes blastin' around the corner but a cop puts him right away. He lays on the street holding his leg screaming something in Spanish, still breathing when I walked away.
gloss: To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
John Cassavetes and New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael have never seen eye to eye on his films. According to the director, "She's blasted every one of my films except A Woman Under the Influence, which she couldn't quite bring herself to pan because it was a story about a woman. So she blasted Gena's acting instead."
Mark Pritchard, a Tory member of Parliament, blasted the show for treating a somber subject as “a matter of fun.”
gloss: To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Oh Portius, is there not some choſen Curſe,
Some hidden Thunder in the Stores of Heav’n,
Red with uncommon Wrath, to blaſt the Man
Who owes his Greatneſs to his Country’s Ruin?
Both Leo and myself rushed to her - she was stone dead - blasted into death by some mysterious electric agency or overwhelming will-force whereof the dread She had command.
gloss: To blight or wither.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A cold wind blasted the rose plants.
gloss: To be blighted or withered.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: The bud blasted in the blossom.
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.
gloss: To blow, for example on a trumpet.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To have a period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to reducing them during a cruise period.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: blast and cruise
gloss: Used to show anger or disappointment: damn
pos: intj
tags: UK
informal
examples: Now, where's my Labour membership card, so I can consider whether to tear it up? Blast, it's plastic...
Derived words: airblast
antiblast
arc blast
ass-blast
at one blast
backblast
beer blast
Blastaway
blast beat
blast chilling
blast 'em up
blast from the past
blast furnace
blast gear
blast lamp
blastment
blastoff
blast-off
blast pad
blast pen
blastpipe
blast pipe
blast processing
blastproof
blast radius
blastwave
blasty
brachyblast
brain blast
counterblast
e-blast
fan-blast
fingerblast
fireblast
fire blast
full blast
gosling blast
hammer blast
hot blast
jet blast
muzzle blast
nematoblast
on blast
playblast
prop blast
put someone on blast
rice blast
rubber ball blast grenade
superblast
thunderblast
whirlblast
windblast
blaster
beblast
blastable
blast away
blasthole
blasting gelatin
blasting gelatine
blastissimo
blast off
blastor
blast out
blast up
blastworthy
ghetto blaster
ghettoblaster
reblast
sandblast
shotblast
shot blasting
upblast
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