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racket
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æk?t/
- Rhymes: -æk?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English raket. Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). Possibly from Arabic ??????? ???????? (r??at al-yad, “palm of the hand”), although this is doubtful. Instead, the term is more likely to be derived from Dutch raketsen, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).
Noun
racket (plural rackets)
- (countable, sports) An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
- Synonyms: bat, paddle, racquet
- (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
- A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
Alternative forms
- (sporting implement): racquet
Translations
Verb
racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)
- To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
- 1658, John Hewytt, Nine Select Sermons
- Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
- 1658, John Hewytt, Nine Select Sermons
Further reading
- racket (sports equipment) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- list of racket sports on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“rattle”).
Noun
racket (plural rackets)
- A loud noise.
- Synonyms: din, noise, ruckus
- A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 408]:
- In six decades he had spotted all the rackets, smelled all the rats, and he was tired of being the absolute and sick master and boss of the inner self.
- Synonyms: con, fraud, scam, swindle; see also Thesaurus:deception
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 408]:
- (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
- (dated, slang) Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
Derived terms
- racketeer, racketeering, tricky racket
Translations
Verb
racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)
- (intransitive) To make a clattering noise.
- (intransitive, dated) To be dissipated; to carouse.
References
Anagrams
- Eckart, retack, tacker
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English racket.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: rac?ket
Noun
racket n (plural rackets, diminutive racketje n)
- racket (sports implement)
Derived terms
- tennisracket
French
Etymology
From English racket.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.k?t/
Noun
racket m (plural rackets)
- racketeering
- racket, extortion
Further reading
- “racket” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From English racket
Noun
racket m (invariable)
- racketeering
- racket, extortion
Derived terms
- antiracket
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- rekkert
Etymology
From Arabic ??????? (r??a, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket
Noun
racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketer, definite plural racketene)
- (sports) a racket or racquet
- (table tennis) a bat, or paddle (US)
References
- “racket” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- rekkert
Etymology
From Arabic ??????? (r??a, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket
Noun
racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketar, definite plural racketane)
- (sports) a racket or racquet
- (table tennis) a bat, or paddle (US)
References
- “racket” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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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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