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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bläst, IPA^(key): /bl??st/
• (US) enPR: bl?st, IPA^(key): /blæst/
• Rhymes: -??st
• Rhymes: -æst

Etymology 1

From Middle English blast from Old English bl?st (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?staz, *bl?stuz (“blowing, blast”). Cognate with obsolete German Blast (“wind, blowing”). More at blow.

Noun

blast (plural blasts)

2. A violent gust of wind.

   • And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; / His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.

3. A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
4. A hit from a pipe.
5. 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.

6. 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.
7. An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
8. An explosive charge for blasting.
   • 1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts

     Large blasts are often used.

9. A loud, sudden sound.
   • c. 1832, William Cullen Bryant, The Battle-Field

     the blast of triumph o'er thy grave
10. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.

    • By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
11. (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.

    We had a blast at the party last night.

12. (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.

    an e-mail blast; a fax blast

13. A flatulent disease of sheep.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English blasten, blesten, from Old English bl?stan (“to blow, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *bl?stijan?. 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)

1. (transitive) To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
2. (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
3. (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
4. (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).

   Blast right through it.

5. (transitive) To curse; to damn.

   Blast it! Foiled again.

6. (transitive) (sci-fi) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).

   Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.

7. (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
8. 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.

9. (transitive) To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
10. (transitive) To blight or wither.

    A cold wind blasted the rose plants.

11. (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.

    The bud blasted in the blossom.

12. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow, for example on a trumpet.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Italian: blastare

Translations

Interjection

blast

1. (chiefly British, informal) To show displeasure or disappointment; damn

Usage notes

Can be used on its own or in the form "blast it!".

Translations

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek ??????? (blastós, “germ or sprout”).

Noun

blast (plural blasts)

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

Derived terms

• blast cell
• blastocyte
• blastoma

Translations

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)

1. (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.

Alternative forms

• BLAST

Anagrams

• Balts, blats

German

Verb

blast

1. inflection of blasen:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. plural imperative

Irish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (blastós, “germ, sprout”).

Noun

blast m (genitive singular blast, nominative plural blastaí)

1. (cytology) blast

Declension

Derived terms

• -blast
• blastchill (“blast cell”)

Mutation

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blaste, blæst, blest

Etymology

From Old English bl?st, from Proto-Germanic *bl?stuz; equivalent to blasen +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blast/, /bl??st/

Noun

blast (plural blastes)

1. A blast; 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.

Derived terms

• blasten

Descendants

• English: blast
• Scots: blast

References

• “blast, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-27.

Swedish

Noun

blast c (definite form blasten)

1. (uncountable) The stem and leaves of a vegetable, of which you're only supposed to eat the root. E.g. in potatoes or carrots.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) enPR: p?p, IPA^(key): /p?p/
• (US) enPR: p?p, IPA^(key): /p?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.

Noun

pop (countable and uncountable, plural pops)

1. (countable) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.

2. (uncountable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada, Britain) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.

   Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop.

   • 1941, LIFE magazine, 8 September 1941, page 27:

     The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop.

3. (countable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada) A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.

4. A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.

5. (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A quantity dispensed, a portion, apiece.
6. Something that stands out or is distinctive, especially to the senses.

   a white dress with a pop of red

   a pop of vanilla flavour

7. (computing) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
8. A bird, the European redwing.
9. (physics) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.
10. (slang, dated) A pistol.

Synonyms

• (soda pop): see the list at soda

Derived terms

(see below, for Etymology 1)

Translations

Verb

pop (third-person singular simple present pops, present participle popping, simple past and past participle popped)

1. (intransitive) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.

2. (ergative) To burst (something) with a popping sound.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, chapter 1:

     The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.

   • The court was told Robins had asked if she could use the oven to heat some baby food for her child. Knutton heard a loud popping noise "like a crisp packet being popped" coming from the kitchen followed by a "screeching" noise. When she saw what had happened to the kitten she was sick in the sink.

3. (intransitive, with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart.

   A rabbit popped out of the hole.

   • 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, v 2 65

     He that hath . . ./ Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.

   • I startled at his popping upon me unexpectedly.

   • 1626, John Donne, "On the Nativity", Sermons, iv

     So, diving in a bottomless sea, they [the Roman Church] pop sometimes above water to take breath.

   • 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman

     others again have a trick of popping up and down every moment from their paper, to the audience, like an idle schoolboy

   • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, ii

     When company comes, you are not to pop out and stare, and then run in again, like frightened rabbits in a warren.
4. (transitive, Britain) To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.

5. (intransitive, Britain, Canada, often with over, round, along, etc.) To make a short trip or visit.

   I'm just popping round to the newsagent.

   I'll pop by your place later today.

6. (intransitive) To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.

   This colour really pops.

   • She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped.

7. (transitive) To hit (something or someone).

8. (transitive, slang) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
9. (intransitive, vulgar) To ejaculate.
10. (transitive, computing) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
    • 2010, Enrico Perla, Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core (page 55)

      Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.

11. (transitive, computing) To remove a data item from the top of (a stack).
    • 2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed

      The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).

12. (transitive, slang) To pawn (something) (to raise money).

13. (transitive, slang) To swallow or consume (especially a tablet of a drug, sometimes extended to other small items such as sweets or candy).
    • 1994, Ruth Garner and Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text:

      We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.
14. (transitive, informal) To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
    • 1995, David Brin, Startide Rising:

      Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...

    • 2009, Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design:

      The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...

15. (intransitive, of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.

16. To perform the popping style of dance.

Derived terms

(see below, for Etymology 1)

Translations

Interjection

pop

1. Used to represent a loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From papa or poppa.

Noun

pop (plural pops)

1. (colloquial) Affectionate form of father.

Translations

See also

• papa, pa
• pap, paps

Etymology 3

From popular, by shortening.

Adjective

pop (not comparable)

1. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.

Noun

pop (uncountable)

1. Pop music.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From colloquial Russian ??? (pop) and ???? (Pop), from Old Church Slavonic ???? (pop?), from Byzantine Greek (see pope). Doublet of pope.

Alternative forms

• pope

Noun

pop (plural pops)

1. (Russian Orthodoxy, uncommon) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.
   • 1822, Mikhaïlov Vasiliï, Adventures of Michailow, 4

     There was at that time in the house of the Consul a Pop (or Russian Priest) named Iwan Afanassich.

   • 2001, Spas Raïkin, Rebel with a Just Cause, 292 n.28

     The contemporary priest's... own children are ashamed and some abusers are openly "transmitting the pop" (a gesture of mocking the priest on the street, where a man would touch his private parts while smiling at other passers-by)

   • 2006, Peter Neville, A Traveller's History of Russia, 123

     By the end of 1809 she was declaring to all and sundry that she would sooner marry 'a pop than the sovereign of a country under the influence of France'. Since a pop was a Russian Orthodox parish priest, the reference was hardly likely to endear her family to the French.

Anagrams

• OPP, Opp, PPO, opp, opp.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pop.

Noun

pop (plural poppe)

1. doll

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (polúpous).

Noun

pop m (plural pops)

1. octopus

Alternative forms

• polp

See also

• calamars

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of popular.

Adjective

pop (indeclinable)

1. popular

Further reading

• “pop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pop” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “pop” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pop” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?p/
• Hyphenation: pop
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch poppe, from Latin pupa; sense of “coccon, pupa” from New Latin. The sense “guilder” derived from student slang as a reference to the image of the Dutch Maiden on guilders from 1694 until the early nineteenth century.

Noun

pop f (plural poppen, diminutive popje n or poppetje n)

1. cocoon, pupa

   Synonym: cocon

2. doll

   Synonym: (Belgium) poppemie

3. As a term for a girl or woman:
   1. (often diminutive) A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
   2. A pretty girl or young woman.

      Synonym: (Belgium) poppemie

   3. (often derogatory) A girl or woman who wears a lot of make-up.

      Synonym: (Belgium) poppemie

4. (Netherlands, colloquial) guilder

   Synonym: gulden

Derived terms

Verb

pop

1. first-person singular present indicative of poppen
2. imperative of poppen

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: pop

Etymology 2

From English pop, possibly through shortening of popmuziek.

Noun

pop f (uncountable)

1. pop, pop music

Derived terms

• popidool
• poppodium
• poptempel
• popzanger

Finnish

Alternative forms

• poppi (noun only)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pop/, [?po?p]
• Rhymes: -op
• Syllabification: pop

Adjective

pop (not comparable)

1. (chiefly in compounds) pop (popular)

Noun

pop

1. pop (popular music)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

pop (feminine singular pope, masculine plural pops, feminine plural popes)

1. pop (popular)

Noun

pop m (plural pop)

1. pop, pop music

Synonyms

• musique pop

Further reading

• “pop” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

From English pop(ular).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pop]
• Rhymes: -op

Noun

pop (plural popok)

1. (music) pop, pop music

Declension

Derived terms

• popegyüttes
• popénekes
• popfesztivál
• popzene

References

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?p?]
• Hyphenation: pop

Etymology 1

From clipping of populer.

Adjective

pop (plural pop-pop)

1. popular.

Etymology 2

From Dutch pop, from New Latin pupa. Doublet of pupa and popi

Noun

pop (first-person possessive popku, second-person possessive popmu, third-person possessive popnya)

1. (colloquial) doll.

   Synonym: boneka

Further reading

• “pop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Jakaltek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *pohp.

Noun

pop

1. reed mat

References

• Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano?^[2] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 47; 41

Navajo

Particle

pop

1. (slang) flirting

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?p/

Etymology 1

From English pop music.

Noun

pop m inan

1. pop music

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Czech pop.

Noun

pop m pers

1. Eastern Orthodox priest

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

pop m (uncountable)

1. pop (music intended for or accepted by a wide audience)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic ???? (pop?), from Ancient Greek ????? (papás), variant of ?????? (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôp/

Noun

p?p m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

Declension

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian pop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôp/

Noun

pop m

1. priest

Declension

References

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 395

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pop/

Etymology 1

From Old Church Slavonic ???? (pop?), from Ancient Greek ????? (papás), variant of ?????? (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

Noun

pop m (genitive singular popa, nominative plural popi, declension pattern of chlap)

1. priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pop.

Noun

pop m (genitive singular popu, declension pattern of dub)

1. pop music, pop

Declension

Further reading

• pop in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pop/, [?pop]

Noun

pop m (plural pops)

1. (Uruguay) popcorn

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita

2. pop, pop music

Derived terms

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English Pope.

Noun

pop

1. Pope

Turkish

Noun

pop (definite accusative popu, plural poplar)

1. pop
2. Pop music

Declension

Volapük

Noun

pop (nominative plural pops)

1. (obsolete, Volapük Rigik) people, nation

Declension

Synonyms

• pöp (Volapük Nulik)

Derived terms

• popik

West Frisian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pop/

Noun

pop c (plural poppen, diminutive popke)

1. baby
2. doll, dummy, puppet
3. dear, darling

Further reading

• “pop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011