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"BLASTS" is a plural of: blast. |
Date "BLASTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Immature blood cells. (references) |
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Crosswords: BLASTS |
| English words defined with "BLASTS": Blasty ♦ Canker blossom ♦ To blow great guns. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BLASTS": ammonal ♦ blasting switch, Bugle ♦ Directed blast, drum chainer, DRUM CLEANER ♦ fast-delay detonation, finishing machine operator, folder operator, folder, machine, FOLDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, forced-caving system, FUN-HOUSE OPERATOR ♦ heading blast ♦ Leet seismograph, lightning gap ♦ Magnetic Storms and Substorms, mains firing ♦ part-face blast, permissible blasting unit, Poulter method ♦ quarry powder ♦ shot firer, shot lighter, SHOTBLAST-EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, shot-firing cable tests, skip miner ♦ walk-through operator, Wild Huntsman. (references) |
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 | The Mobile Bomb Renovation Plant at Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, blasts a Mk 82 500-pound general-purpose bomb. Anderson AFB has 70,000 Mk 82 bombs to repaint using the new renovation tool. (Courtesy photo). |  | Part of the Inf. Co. of 7th Div., U.S. Army halts in its advance on Kwajalein Island while a tank blasts a path into Jap[anese] positions / official U.S. Army photograph. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Penn | The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | But all was lost in the wretched displays and trumpet blasts of Jondrette. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The three blasts of the angel filled all the universe. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | There are normal blasts and leukemic blasts. (references) | |
This test is also used to detect the presence of leukemic blasts. (references) | ||
In many cases, they look different from normal blasts when viewed under a microscope. (references) | ||
Economic History | Saudi Arabia | Only one injury resulted from these blasts and the reasons behind them remain unexplained. (references) |
Political Rights | Bangladesh | Also in September, two bomb blasts killed at least 8 Awami League members and injured more than 100 others in the district of Bagerhat during an election rally. (references) |
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| "BLASTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 56.15% of the time. "BLASTS" is used about 130 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 56.15% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 43.08% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.77% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 130 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BLASTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | trestoeds signal (three blasts signal). (various references) | ||||
Dutch | driestootsignaal (three blasts signal). (various references) | ||||
French | signal de trois coups (three blasts signal). (various references) | ||||
German | Windstöße (gusts), Böen (flurries, gusts). (various references) | ||||
Greek | σήμα με τρεις συριγμούς (three blasts signal). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | astsblay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BLASTS": ameloblasts, counterblasts, epiblasts, erythroblasts, fibroblasts, hypoblasts, idioblasts, lymphoblasts, megaloblasts, melanoblasts, myeloblasts, myoblasts, oblasts, odontoblasts, osteoblasts, sandblasts, statoblasts, trophoblasts, windblasts. (additional references) | |
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"BLASTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: basts, belasis, blarst, blass, blatz, blist, Blists, Vlasta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BLASTS" (pronounced bla"sts) |
| 5 | -l a" s t s | lasts. |
| 4 | -a" s t s | castes, casts, fasts, forecasts, lambastes, masts, pasts. |
| 3 | -s t s | abolitionists, abortionists, activists, adjusts, agonists, agronomists, analysts, anarchists, anesthesiologists, animists, antagonists, anthropologists, apologists, aquarists, archaeologists, archivists, armrests, arrests, arsonists, artists, assists, atheists, attests, ballasts, balloonists, baptists, bassists, beasts, behaviorists, bequests, bicyclists, biologists, boasts, boosts, botanists, breakfasts, breasts, broadcasts, bursts, busts, capitalists, cardiologists, careerists, cartoonists, catalysts, centralists, centrists, chartists, chemists, chests, chloroplasts, clarinetists, coasts, cohosts, colonialists, colonists, columnists, communists, conformists, conquests, conservationists, consists, consumerists, contests, contexts, contrasts, costs, crests, criminologists, crusts, cultists, cyclists, cysts, dentists, dermatologists, digests, disgusts, distrusts, divests, druggists, dusts, ecologists, economists, editorialists, elitists, endocrinologists, enlists, enthusiasts, entomologists, environmentalists, epidemiologists, ethicists, evangelists, exhausts, exhibitionists, exists, extremists, fascists, fatalists, feasts, federalists, feminists, fetishists, finalists, firsts, fists, flavorists, florists, forests, frosts, fundamentalists, futurists, generalists, geneticists, geologists, ghosts, guests, guideposts, guitarists, gusts, gymnasts, gynecologists, harpists, harvests, headrests, herbalists, hobbyists, hoists, hosts, humanists, humorists, hygienists, idealists, ideologists, illusionists, imperialists, impressionists, individualists, industrialists, infests, insists, institutionalists, instrumentalists, interests, internationalists, internists, interventionists, invests, isolationists, jests, joists, journalists, jurists, kremlinologists, lampposts, leftists, linguists, lists, lobbyists, locusts, loyalists, lyricists, machinists, manifests, medalists, meteorologists, militarists, mists, modernists, molests, monarchists, monetarists, moralists, motorcyclists, motorists, nationalists, naturalists, nests, neurologists, newscasts, nihilists, nonconformists, novelists, numismatists, nutritionists, obstructionists, oncologists, ophthalmologists, opportunists, optimists, optometrists, orthodontists, orthopedists, outbursts, outcasts, outposts, pacifists, paleontologists, panelists, pastes, pathologists, persists, pessimists, pests, pharmacists, philanthropists, physicists, pianists, poltergeists, populists, posts, pragmatists, preexists, preservationists, priests, propagandists, protagonists, protectionists, protests, provosts, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, publicists, purists, quests, racists, radiologists, rainforests, rapists, realists, receptionists, recidivists, reformists, Reinvests, requests, reservationists, reservists, resists, rests, retests, revisionists, revolutionists, rightists, ripostes, roasts, rusts, satirists, schists, scientists, secessionists, secularists, segregationists, seismologists, semifinalists, separatists, signposts, socialists, sociologists, soloists, specialists, spiritualists, statists, sternposts, strategists, stylists, suffragists, suggests, supremacists, survivalists, symbolists, tastes, technologists, telecasts, televangelists, terrorists, testes, tests, texts, theorists, therapists, thrusts, toasts, toothpastes, tourists, toxicologists, traditionalists, trusts, twists, typists, ultranationalists, unionists, urologists, vests, violinists, virologists, waists, wastes, wrists, yeasts. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-l-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: basts, blast, blats, lasts, salts, slabs, slats, stabs. | |
-2 letters: albs, alts, bals, bass, bast, bats, blat, labs, lass, last, lats, sabs, sals, salt, slab, slat, stab, tabs, tass. | |
-3 letters: abs, alb, als, alt, ass, bal, bas, bat, lab, las, lat, sab, sal, sat, tab, tas. | |
-4 letters: ab, al, as, at, ba, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-l-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: basalts, oblasts, stables. | |
+2 letters: astilbes, ballasts, basaltes, bastiles, bathless, beatless, blasters, blasties, borstals, lambasts, saltbush, stabiles, stablers, stablest, stablish, sublates. | |
+3 letters: absolutes, albatross, arbalests, arbalists, arbelests, backlists, ballsiest, balusters, barstools, bastilles, bestowals, blastemas, blastiest, blastings, blastoffs, blastomas, blastulas, cabalists, epiblasts, establish, fabulists, fastballs, gustables, lambastes, myoblasts, obstacles, sailboats, saltboxes, sandblast, seatbelts, sibilants, sibilates, slotbacks, softballs, spitballs, stablings, storables, subadults, subtotals. | |
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