Definitions for blast
blæst, blɑstblast

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. blastnoun

   a very long fly ball

2. bang, clap, eruption, blast, bamnoun

   a sudden very loud noise

3. gust, blast, blownoun

   a strong current of air

   "the tree was bent almost double by the gust"

4. blastnoun

   an explosion (as of dynamite)

5. good time, blastnoun

   a highly pleasurable or exciting experience

   "we had a good time at the party"; "celebrating after the game was a blast"

6. fire, attack, flak, flack, blastverb

   intense adverse criticism

   "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"

7. blast, blareverb

   make a strident sound

   "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"

8. smash, nail, boom, blastverb

   hit hard

   "He smashed a 3-run homer"

9. blast, shellverb

   use explosives on

   "The enemy has been shelling us all day"

10. blastverb

    apply a draft or strong wind to to

    "the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us"

11. blast, shellverb

    create by using explosives

    "blast a passage through the mountain"

12. blastverb

    make with or as if with an explosion

    "blast a tunnel through the Alps"

13. blast, shootverb

    fire a shot

    "the gunman blasted away"

14. savage, blast, pillory, crucifyverb

    criticize harshly or violently

    "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"

15. blast, knock downverb

    shatter as if by explosion

16. blastverb

    shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Blastnoun

   a violent gust of wind

2. Blastnoun

   a forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast

3. Blastnoun

   the exhaust steam from and 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

4. Blastnoun

   the sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath

5. Blastnoun

   a sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight

6. Blastnoun

   the act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose

7. Blastnoun

   a flatulent disease of sheep

8. Blastverb

   to injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel

9. Blastverb

   hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character

10. Blastverb

    to confound by a loud blast or din

11. Blastverb

    to rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks

12. Blastverb

    to be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom

13. Blastverb

    to blow; to blow on a trumpet

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. BLAST

   In bioinformatics, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, or BLAST, is an algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of different proteins or the nucleotides of DNA sequences. A BLAST search enables a researcher to compare a query sequence with a library or database of sequences, and identify library sequences that resemble the query sequence above a certain threshold. Different types of BLASTs are available according to the query sequences. For example, following the discovery of a previously unknown gene in the mouse, a scientist will typically perform a BLAST search of the human genome to see if humans carry a similar gene; BLAST will identify sequences in the human genome that resemble the mouse gene based on similarity of sequence. The BLAST program was designed by Stephen Altschul, Warren Gish, Webb Miller, Eugene Myers, and David J. Lipman at the NIH and was published in the Journal of Molecular Biology in 1990.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Blast

   blast, n. a blowing or gust of wind: a forcible stream of air: sound of a wind instrument; an explosion of gunpowder: anything pernicious.—v.t. to strike with some pernicious influence, to blight: to affect with sudden violence or calamity: to rend asunder with gunpowder.—adj. Blast′ed, blighted: cursed, damned.—ns. Blast′-fur′nace, a smelting furnace into which hot air is blown; Blast′-hole, a hole in the bottom of a pump through which water enters; Blast′ing, the separating of masses of stone by means of an explosive substance; Blast′ing-gel′atine, a powerful explosive made of gun-cotton and nitro-glycerine; Blast′ment, withering or shrivelling up caused by blasting; Blast′-pipe, a pipe in a steam-engine, to convey the waste-steam up the chimney. [A.S. blǽst; cf. Ice. beása; Ger. blasen.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. blast

   1. v.,n. Synonym for BLT, used esp. for large data sends over a network or comm line. Opposite of snarf. Usage: uncommon. The variant ‘blat’ has been reported. 2. vt. [HP/Apollo] Synonymous with nuke (sense 3). Sometimes the message Unable to kill all processes. Blast them (y/n)? would appear in the command window upon logout.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. blast

   A sudden and violent gust of wind: it is generally of short duration, and succeeded by a fine breeze.--To blast, to blow up with gunpowder.

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1. blastverb

   The act of shooting a firearm.

2. blastverb

   pcp.

3. blastverb

   To play music loud.

4. blastverb

   To "put someone on blast": to call them out as being wrong.

5. blastverb

   Last black man standing during a shoot out.

6. blastnoun

   Hit from a crack pipe.

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1. blast

   Song lyrics by blast -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by blast on the Lyrics.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Baseball
   • Blow
   • Bombard
   • Create
   • Criticize
   • Cut
   • Experience
   • Explosion
   • Fire
   • Fly
   • Make Noise
   • Shrivel
   • Smash
   • Wind

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'blast' in Nouns Frequency: #3010

Anagrams for blast »

1. Balts

2. Blats

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of blast in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of blast in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of blast in a Sentence

1. Umar Zannah:

   The bombs killed 10 of our members and three other persons nearby, we have commenced treatment of the 45 people who were injured from the blast.

2. George Gordon Byron:

   For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'dAnd the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still

3. Marko Cunningham:

   The people that tended to survive were the ones that ended up underneath the dead people, i'm guessing that the person in front took the blast and the person behind was somehow saved. We had to take of the dead bodies from the living people underneath.

4. Julian Bailes:

   There really is no concussion pill, there's no specific medication we have to treat these, it's recognition, it's taking that individual out of harm's way for future impacts or blast injury, and it's allowing the brain to heal.

5. Nasrat Rahimi:

   First a magnetic bomb pasted to a minibus exploded, then a suicide bomber blew himself near the bus attack site and the third blast happened when a car was blown up by unknown militants, the death toll could rise from all the three blasts.

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