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blastoff
English
Etymology
blast +? off
Noun
blastoff (plural blastoffs)
- The countdown and launch of a rocket, missile or spacecraft
Related terms
- blast off (verb)
Translations
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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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