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blast
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)
- 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.
- 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.
- An explosive charge for blasting.
- 1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts
- Large blasts are often used.
- 1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts
- A loud, sudden sound.
- c. 1832, William Cullen Bryant, The Battle-Field
- the blast of triumph o'er thy grave
- c. 1832, William Cullen Bryant, The Battle-Field
- 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.
- (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.
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)
- (transitive) To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
- (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) (sci-fi) 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.
- 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 bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
- (transitive) To blight or wither.
- A cold wind blasted the rose plants.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
- The bud blasted in the blossom.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To blow, for example on a trumpet.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Italian: blastare
Translations
Interjection
blast
- (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)
- (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)
- (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:
Alternative forms
- BLAST
Anagrams
- Balts, blats
German
Verb
blast
- inflection of blasen:
- second-person plural present
- plural imperative
Irish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (blastós, “germ, sprout”).
Noun
blast m (genitive singular blast, nominative plural blastaí)
- (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)
- 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.
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)
- (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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thwart
English
Etymology
The adjective is derived from Early Middle English thwert, thwerte, thuart, thurt, thurte, thwart, thwarte, twart, twarte, twhart, twhert, twort, þuert, þwerrt, þwert, þwerte, ðwert (“crosswise, transverse; counter, opposing; contrary, obstinate”), borrowed from Old Norse þvert (“across, athwart”), originally the neuter form of þverr (“across, transverse”), from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross; adverse”) (altered or influenced by Proto-Germanic *þweran? (“to stir; to swirl; to turn”)), from Proto-Germanic *þerh-, probably from Proto-Indo-European *terk?- (“to spin; to turn”).
The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (þwairs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer.
The adverb is derived from Middle English thwert, ywerte (“crosswise; across the grain”); the Middle English Dictionary suggests the adverb was derived from the adjective, while the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the adverb is attested earlier than the adjective.
The verb is derived from Middle English thwerten, thwert, thwarten, þwerten (“to lie across; to oppose, to thwart”), and further from the adverb and perhaps also the adjective.
Noun sense 1 (“a seat across a boat on which a rower may sit”) may be derived from the adverb or adjective, from the position of the seat across the length of the boat, while noun sense 3 (“(rare) an act of thwarting”) is derived from the verb. Compare Middle English thwert (“in in thwert: crosswise”), from the adjective.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w??t/
- (General American) enPR: thwôrt, IPA(key): /?w?(?)?t/
- Rhymes: -??(r)t
Adjective
thwart (comparative more thwart, superlative most thwart)
- Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
- (figuratively, dated) Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.
- Synonyms: cross-grained, froward; see also Thesaurus:obstinate
- (figuratively, dated) Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.
- Synonyms: unpropitious, untoward; see also Thesaurus:unlucky
Derived terms
- athwart
- athwartship, athwartships
Related terms
- overthwart
- overthwartly
- overthwartness
Translations
Adverb
thwart (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.
Translations
Preposition
thwart
- (archaic or poetic) Across, athwart.
Verb
thwart (third-person singular simple present thwarts, present participle thwarting, simple past and past participle thwarted)
- (transitive) To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
- Synonyms: balk, foil, spoil
- Antonym: promote
- (transitive, obsolete) To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
- (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hinder
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To move (something) across or counter to; to cross.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- thwarter
- thwartsome
Translations
Noun
thwart (plural thwarts)
- (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
- Synonyms: thaught, thawt, (Britain, dialectal) thoft
- (nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
- (rare) An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
Translations
References
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