Definition of "blast"

blast¹

/blɑːst/

noun
plural blasts
1. A violent gust of wind.
  Quotations
  And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; / His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.
  1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768
  Their warm, thick under covering of fine wool protects them from the coldest blasts.
  1915 April, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, page 37
2. A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
3. A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.
4. The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
  Quotations
  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.
  1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 146
5. 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.
6. An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
  Quotations
  Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within, […] most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
  2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎
  Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.
  2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43
7. An explosive charge for blasting.
  Quotations
  Large blasts are often used.
  1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts
8. A loud, sudden sound.
  Quotations
  One blast upon his bugle horn / Were worth a thousand men.
  1810, Walter Scott, “(please specify the canto number or page)”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, (please specify the stanza number)
  the blast of triumph o'er thy grave
  c. 1832, William Cullen Bryant, The Battle-Field
  Then the captain sung out: ¶ "Stand away!" and the cannon let off such a blast right before me that it made me deef with the noise and pretty near blind with the smoke, and I judged I was gone.
  1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], page 60
9. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
  Quotations
  By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Job 4:9
  Vertue preferd from fell deſtuctions blaſt,
  c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, [Act V, scene iii]
10. (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
11. (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
12. A flatulent disease of sheep.
13. (bodybuilding, slang) A period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to a period of reduced intake.

blast²

/blɑːst/

verb
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.
  Quotations
  Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear.
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene viii]
2. (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
3. (transitive, informal) To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.
  Quotations
  Some kid is in his car blasting rap. You know, bass in the trunk and you can hear it 4 blocks away? I signal over to him and say "Hey, turn it up, I can't hear it." He turns around and says, "Shut Up Grandpa."
  2008 April 24, [email protected], “ARRMO FEST”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.oldschool‎ (Usenet)
4. (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
5. (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
6. (transitive) To curse; to damn.
7. (transitive, science fiction) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
8. (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
  Quotations
  A Ricketts and Stuart Holden one-two around the box then created a decent chance for an almost instant equaliser - but Welsh full-back Ricketts blasted over when a calmer finish could have been rewarded.
  2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎
9. To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
10. (transitive) To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
  Quotations
  Both Leo and myself rushed to her - she was stone dead - blasted into death by some mysterious electric agency or overwhelming will-force whereof the dread She had command.
  1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
11. (transitive) To blight or wither.
12. (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
  Quotations
  Tell age it daily wasteth;tell honour how it alters;Tell beauty how she blasteth;tell fauour how it falters:And as they shall reply,giue euery one the lye.
  c. 1592, Walter Raleigh, “The Lie”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), published 1608
13. (intransitive, obsolete) To blow, for example on a trumpet.
14. (bodybuilding, slang) To have a period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to reducing them during a cruise period.
interjection
1. (chiefly British, informal) To show displeasure or disappointment: damn

blast³

/blɑːst/

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

blast⁴

/blɑːst/

verb
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).
  Quotations
  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, Bettina Riebel-Bommarius, Biocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications, page 425

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