Meaning of Blast | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
2. A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).
   countable, uncountable
3. An algorithm which compares similarities between sequences of nucleotides in nucleic acids or of amino acids in proteins.
4. 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.
   countable, uncountable
5. A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.
   countable, uncountable
6. The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
   countable, uncountable
7. 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.
   countable, uncountable
8. An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
   countable, uncountable
9. A verbal attack or punishment; a severe criticism or reprimand.
   countable, uncountable
10. An explosive charge for blasting.
    countable, uncountable
11. A loud, sudden sound.
    countable
12. Unwanted noise from a microphone.
    uncountable
13. A sudden pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
    countable, uncountable
14. A good time; an enjoyable moment.
    countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable
15. A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
    countable, uncountable
16. A flatulent disease of sheep.
    countable, uncountable
17. A period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to a period of reduced intake.
    countable, slang, uncountable

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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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts Large blasts are often used.”

“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.”

“[…] 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, […]”

“By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.”

“Vertue preferd from fell deſtuctions blaſt,”

“We had a blast at the party last night.”

“an e-mail blast; a fax blast”

“blast and cruise”

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