different between blast vs wind

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English winde, wind, from Old English wind (“wind”), from Proto-Germanic *windaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wéh?n?tos (“wind”), from earlier *h?wéh?n?ts (“wind”), derived from the present participle of *h?weh?- (“to blow”). Cognate with Dutch wind, German Wind, West Frisian wyn, Norwegian and Swedish vind, Icelandic vindur, Latin ventus, Welsh gwynt, Sanskrit ??? (v??ta), Russian ?????? (véter), perhaps Albanian bundë (“strong damp wind”). Cognate to vent.

Alternative forms

• winde (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?nd, IPA^(key): /?w?nd/
• (archaic) enPR: w?nd, IPA^(key): /?wa?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

wind (countable and uncountable, plural winds)

1. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.

3. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.

4. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)

5. One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements).
6. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.

7. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.

   • Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.

8. (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
9. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".

   • Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain.
10. Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
11. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
12. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
13. A bird, the dotterel.
14. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.

Synonyms

• (movement of air): breeze, draft, gale; see also Thesaurus:wind
• (flatus): gas (US); see also Thesaurus:flatus

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: win
• Torres Strait Creole: win

Translations

See wind/translations § Etymology 1.

See also

Verb

wind (third-person singular simple present winds, present participle winding, simple past and past participle winded or (proscribed) wound)

1. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.

   The boxer was winded during round two.

3. (transitive, Britain) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
4. (transitive, Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
5. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
6. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.

   The hounds winded the game.

7. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
8. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.

Usage notes

• The form “wound” in the past is occasionally found in reference to blowing a horn, but is often considered to be erroneous. The October 1875 issue of The Galaxy disparaged this usage as a “very ridiculous mistake” arising from a misunderstanding of the word's meaning.
• A similar solecism occurs in the use (in this sense) of the pronunciation /wa?nd/, sometimes heard in singing and oral reading of verse, e.g., The huntsman /wa?ndz/ his horn.

Descendants

• ? Tok Pisin: winim

Translations

See wind/translations § Etymology 1.

Etymology 2

From Middle English winden, from Old English windan, from Proto-Germanic *windan?. Compare West Frisian wine, Low German winden, Dutch winden, German winden, Danish vinde, Walloon windea. See also the related term wend.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?nd, IPA^(key): /wa?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd
• Homophones: wined, whined (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Verb

wind (third-person singular simple present winds, present participle winding, simple past and past participle wound or winded)

2. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
   • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

3. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.

4. (transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
5. (intransitive) To travel in a way that is not straight.
   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.

   • 1969, Paul McCartney, The Long and Winding Road

     The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.

6. (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
   • Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please / And wind all other witnesses.

   • 12 October 1710, Joseph Addison, The Examiner No. 5

     Were our legislature vested in the person of our prince, he might doubtless wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.

7. (transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
   • 1674, Richard Allestree, The Government of the Tongue

     'Tis pleasant to see what little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse

8. (transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.

9. (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
   • 2012, "Rural Affairs", Anna Hutton-North, Lulu.com ?ISBN [1]

10. (transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Esperanto: vindi

Translations

See wind/translations § Etymology 2.

Noun

wind (plural winds)

1. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

References

• wind at OneLook Dictionary Search

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch wind, from Middle Dutch wint, from Old Dutch wint, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?wéh?n?ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h?weh?- (“to blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?nt/

Noun

wind (plural winde, diminutive windjie)

1. wind (movement of air)

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• wénn, winn, wend

Etymology

From Old High German wint, from Proto-Germanic *windaz. Cognate with German Wind, Dutch wind, English wind, Icelandic vindur, Gothic ???????????????????? (winds).

Noun

wind m

1. (Carcoforo) wind

References

• “wind” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt/
• Hyphenation: wind
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: wint

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wint, from Old Dutch wint, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?wéh?n?ts (“blowing”), present participle of *h?weh?- (“to blow”).

Noun

wind m (plural winden, diminutive windje n)

1. wind (movement of air)

2. flatulence, fart

   Synonyms: bout, buikwind, ruft, scheet

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wind
• ? Sranan Tongo: winti

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch wint. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

wind m (plural winden, diminutive windje n)

1. (obsolete) greyhound

Derived terms

• windhond

Related terms

• hond

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

wind

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

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wind.

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian wind, Old Saxon wind, Dutch wind, Old High German wint (German Wind), Old Norse vindr (Swedish vind), Gothic ???????????????????? (winds). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin ventus (French vent), Welsh gwynt, Tocharian A want, Tocharian B yente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wind/

Noun

wind m

1. wind
2. flatulence

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: wind, wend
  • English: wind
  • Scots: wind, wynd
  • Yola: wyeene