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Definition: Blister |
BlisterNoun1. (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid. Verb1. Get blistery; "Her feet blistered during the long hike". 2. Scorch with words; "blistering criticism; whipping comments". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blister" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
Etymology: Blister \Blis"ter\, noun. [OE.; akin to Old Dutch bluyster, from the same root as blast, bladder, blow. See Blowto eject wind.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Any disease characterised by raised patches on leaves, caused e. g. by the genus Taphrina on Elm and Poplar. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The distended peridium of the aecidium of rusts. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A vesicle formed in bark or leaves by a separation and raising of the surface layers. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Health | Visible accumulations of fluid within or beneath the epidermis. (references) |
Industry | A local lifting, not extending to the edge, of the surface of plywood and other composite products, due to lack of adhesion there between two adjacent plies. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A raised area on the surface of a moulding caused by the pressure of gases inside it on its incompletely hardened surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A figure produced on smooth flat-sawed and rotary cut surfaces by undulations in the grain(e. g. curly or wavy grain), and having the appearance of more or less widely spaced, raised or depressed areas of rounded contour. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A bubble of smallest dimensions exceeding about 2 mm. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A local deformation of the surface caused by a rapid evaporation of water. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | A raised spot on the surface of metal caused by expansion of gas in a sub-surface zone during heat treatment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. In quarrying, an unconfined charge of explosive used to bring down dangerous ground that cannot be made safe by barring and that is too inaccessible to bore b. A protrusion, more or less circular in plan, extending downward into a coal seam. It represents the filling of a streambed pothole worn into the upper surface of the coal-forming material c. Copper as a smelter product before it is refined d. A defect in metal, on or near the surface, resulting from the expansion of gas in a subsurface zone. Very small blisters are called pinheads orpepper blisters. (references) |
Physics | A curved sheet of water raised by the motion of a seaplane float or hull and separated from the surface by an air space. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | A streamlined protuberance on an aircraft, designed to house equipment, to afford a place for observation or for other purposes. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A blister is a defense mechanism of the human body. It consists of a pool of lymph and other bodily fluids beneath the upper layers of the skin. It may be formed in response to burns or friction, and helps to repair damage to the skin. If a blister is punctured, it forms an open wound and must be bandaged.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blister."
Synonyms: BlisterSynonyms: bleb (n), bulla (n), whip (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: by-blow (industry). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Pimple, zit; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil; (disease); airbubble, blob, papule, verruca. |
Heat | Verb: be hot. Adjective: glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blister |
| English words defined with "blister": acervulus, aphthous ulcer, Attrahent ♦ Blister fly, blister pack, Blister plaster, blister rust, Blister steel, blood blister, bubble pack, bubble wrap ♦ Cantharis, Cast steel, Cronartium ribicola ♦ Endermic method ♦ family Meloidae, fever blister ♦ Heteromerous ♦ Meloidae ♦ Potato fly, prurigo ♦ Spanish fly ♦ Tilting ♦ Vesicate ♦ water blister. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blister": anode copper, anode furnace ♦ converter foreperson, converter skimmer ♦ dry sweating ♦ Epidermolysis Bullosa, Junctional ♦ flake-miller helper, floor burst ♦ OVEN OPERATOR, overpoled copper ♦ shear steel, Stimulants of Great Men ♦ THERMOMETER PRODUCTION WORKER, Twisted Blister ♦ underpoled copper. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "blister": sinapism. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Blister" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (blister pack), Portuguese (blister). |
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Lyrics | Now her pestering sister's a festering blister, (Clementine; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Blister (2002) | |
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 | Blister Cave near Pillar ButteCraters of the MoonShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Duane Reynolds. |  | In Dry Dock Number 1 at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii, circa 1935. Note men painting her boot topping from stages rigged over the side, and outline of her anti-torpedo "blister" where it merges with her forward hull. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Drydocked in an Advanced Base Sectional Dock (ABSD) at the Pacific, circa 1944. Note the extensive anti-torpedo "blister" built into her hull side and paravane streaming chains running from her forefoot to her foredeck. Credit: NAVY. |  | Production. Copper. Making molds of blister copper at the Garfield, Utah smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company. Vast quantities of the copper so vital for war purposes are smelted at this plant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Garfield, Utah. Making molds of blister copper at the Garfield smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Ccompany. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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J. M. Synge | Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. |
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Health | This blister will eventually rupture, causing a very painful burning sensation. (references) | |
The skin may blister and peel. This reaction may last hours or even days. Report radiation recall reactions to your doctor or nurse. (references) | ||
After a year, the worm will migrate to the surface of the body. As the worm migrates, a blister develops on the skin where the worm will emerge. (references) | ||
Economic History | Cote D'ivoire | Colorful designs, blister packs and small, reusable containers appeal to the consumer. (references) |
Argentina | Best prospects for U.S. products are: meat and poultry packing equipment; fruit (citrus) processing equipment, vegetable processing equipment, plant logistics equipment; machines for processing grain, dried leguminous vegetables; PET packaging equipment; vacuum filling/packing; blister pack machines; machinery for filling, closing, sealing or labeling bottles, jars, tubes and similar containers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Blister" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.58% of the time. "Blister" is used about 76 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 (singular) | 81.58% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 18.42% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "blister": blister agent ♦ blister beetle ♦ blister blight ♦ blister copper ♦ blister disease ♦ blister figure ♦ Blister fly ♦ blister oneself ♦ blister pack ♦ blister packaging ♦ blister pearl ♦ Blister plaster ♦ blister rust ♦ Blister steel ♦ blood blister ♦ elongated blister ♦ fever blister ♦ small blister ♦ sulphate blister ♦ water blister ♦ white pine blister rust. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blister": blister-fly, blister-like, blister-packed. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fever blister | 598 | home remedy for fever blister | 27 |
blister | 506 | vaginal blister | 27 |
blood blister | 183 | water blister | 26 |
foot blister | 120 | fever blister cure | 24 |
blister packaging | 108 | burn blister | 24 |
blister beetle | 84 | blister on penis | 23 |
blister in the sun | 70 | fever blister remedy | 22 |
sunburn blister | 66 | cold sore fever blister | 22 |
skin blister | 63 | hand blister | 21 |
sun blister | 61 | blister card | 21 |
blister treatment | 57 | blister on finger | 20 |
blister mouth | 53 | fever blister treatment | 20 |
blister pack | 49 | throat blister | 19 |
blister on the tongue | 47 | treat a blister | 19 |
lip blister | 42 | blister prevention | 19 |
blister in lyrics sun | 38 | blister on hands | 18 |
fever blister picture | 34 | genital blister | 18 |
blister care | 32 | blister agent | 17 |
blister bug | 30 | blister femmes in lyrics sun violent | 17 |
blister in the mouth | 29 | blister packing | 16 |
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| Language | Translations for "blister"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fshikë (bladder, bleb, vesicle, water blister), flluskë (bleb, bubble, nipple, vesicle, water blister). (various references) | |
Arabic | فقاعة (bleb, bubble), نفط (kerosene, oil, petrol), قرح (botch, gall, sore, ulcerate), عامل من عوامل التنفط, عاقب (administer, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, discipline, mete, paddle, penalize, punish, rap, recompense, strafe, suffer, trounce), داء منفظ يصيب النبات, بثره. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мехур (bladder, bubble, cyst, utricle, vesica), пришка (blain, bleb, gall, pustule, spot, whelk), изприщвам (pustulate). (various references) | |
Chinese | 水泡 (bubble). (various references) | |
Czech | bublinka (bubble), puchýř (Bunion). (various references) | |
Danish | bulla (bleb, bled, bulla), blære (bladder, bubble), blæring, blaere (belly, bladder, blow, blowhole, bubble, delamination, gas pocket, seam, void), blaeresyge, blegetårn, blist (aphtha, bleb, bled, blister from burns, bulla, vesicle), bovbølge, blister, vable (bleb, bled, blister from burns, bulla, vesicle), finerblaere (blow, delamination), ødemblærer (pomphus), formskærm (fillet), kuppel (coffer, cupola, dome, globe), lille blaere, luftblaere (air pocket, blow hole), mine (my), tysker (German). (various references) | |
Dutch | blaar (bled, blow, bulla, delamination), blaasje (bled, blow, boil, bulla, delamination, droplet, seed, vesicle). (various references) | |
Esperanto | blazo, veziketo, haŭtveziketo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | bløðra. (various references) | |
Farsi | تاول زدن (Breakout, Scorch), تاول (Bleb, Gall, Scald, Scorch, Welt), ابله (Asinine, Dolt, Doodle, Doter, Fool, Imbecile, Mome, Screwball, Silly, Simpleton). (various references) | |
Finnish | rakkula (vesicle), rakko (bladder). (various references) | |
French | cloque (bleb), bulle (bladder, bleb), ampoule (bleb). (various references) | |
German | Blase (bubble, bladder), Brandblase (bleb, blister from burns, vesicle). (various references) | |
Greek | φουσκάλα (bleb, bubble, cyst, vesicle, water blister), φυσαλίδα (bled, blow, blow hole, boil, bruise, bubble, bulla, bump, swelling, vesicle, void), εκδόριο (pomphus, vesicant, vesicle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יבלת (callus, corn, verruca, wart), אבעבועה (furuncle, pimple, pustule), בועה (bleb, bubble, globule, vesicle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | buborék (bubble), pattanás (pimple, pustule, snap), lefitymál (to make orts of sg, to scout), hólyag (bladder, bubble, cyst, meatball, nitwit), felhólyagzik (to blister, to frill, vesicate), öntési hiba. (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyerang dengan kata tajam, lepuh. (various references) | |
Italian | bolla (bubble), vescica (bladder, bubble). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肉刺 (clitoris, corn), 疱疹 (herpes), 底豆 (corn). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そこまめ (corn), まめ (beans, clitoris, corn, devoted, faithful, hardworking, healthy, honest, peas), ほうしん (absentmindedness, gun barrel, herpes, honorific reference to another's kind intentions, honorific reference to another's letter, objective, peace of mind, plan, policy, tidings of peach blossoms). (various references) | |
Korean | 물집. (various references) | |
Manx | mamm (blain, boil, nipple), bolgagh (abdominal, bellied, billowy, bog, bulging, moss, puffy). (various references) | |
Norwegian | blemme. (various references) | |
Papiamen | blar. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isterblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bolha (bubble), vesícula (bladder, vesicle), falha (rift). (various references) | |
Romanian | bate la cap pe cineva, bãşicã de piele, bãşica, ustura (bite, burn, prick, prickle, smart, sting), arde (burn). (various references) | |
Russian | волдырь (bleb, draught, weal, wheal), мозоль (callus), пузырь (bladder, cyst). (various references) | |
Scottish | builgean (bubble, pimple), leus (a light, a ray, beam or, torch). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plik (bleb), mehur (bubble). (various references) | |
Shona | chinyamudzunge (blister beetle). (various references) | |
Spanish | ampolla (bulb, ampoule, ampule, bleb), vejiga (bladder, bubble), campanilla (bell), burbuja (bubble). (various references) | |
Swedish | blåsa (blow, bladder, bubble, puff). (various references) | |
Thai | แผลผุพอง, พอง (bloat). (various references) | |
Turkish | yakı (cataplasm, plaster), su toplatan şey, su toplamak, su toplama (catchment), silâh bölmesi, rasat kulesi, kabartmak (bloat, bloat up, fluff, fluff out, fluff up, puff, puff up, raise, roughen, roughen up, ruffle, scribble, tease, vesicate), kabarmak (arch, bloat, bloat out, heave, puff, rise, roughen, surge, swell, tumefy, upsurge, vesicate), kabarcık (bubble, papilla, papula, papule, pimple, pock, pustule, tubercle, vesicle), azarlamak (rebuke, reproach, scold), çıkışmak (chide, inveigh, jump on, read the riot act to, round on, scold, slap, snap, take to task, upbraid). (various references) | |
Turkmen | pakgarзak (bump). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | булька (blab, bubble), пухир (bleb, wheal), покриватися пухирями. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vết bỏng giộp, chỗ phồng da chỗ bị phồng lên, chỗ giộp da, cao làm giộp da. (various references) | |
Welsh | pothellu, pothell, crug (abscess, barrow, heap, hillock, multitude, tumulus), chwysigennu, chwysigen (bladder). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | bun. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pustula. (various references) |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | blyster. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blister": blistered, blistering, blisteringly, blisters, blistery. (additional references) | |
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"Blister" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alaister, baister, Billiter, bilter, bister, bistery, bits'er, blastor, blist, Blitar, bliter, blitter, bloster, blster, boister, Brister, flister. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blister" (pronounced bli"ster) |
| 5 | -l i" s t er | Lister. |
| 4 | -i" s t er | Mister, sister, transistor, twister. |
| 3 | -s t er | dumpster, duster, Easter, adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, trickster, trimester, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bristle, riblets. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: bestir, birles, bister, bistre, biters, blites, libers, lister, liters, litres, relist, riblet, tilers, tribes. | |
-2 letters: belts, biers, biles, birle, birls, birse, biter, bites, blest, blets, blite, bries, brits, islet, istle, liber, liers, liter, litre, relit, ribes, riels, riles, rites, slier, stile, tiers, tiler, tiles, tires, tirls, tribe, tries. | |
-3 letters: bels, belt, best, bets. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: blastier, blisters, blistery, blithers, bristled, bristles, brittles, burliest, driblets, filberts, gilberts, librates, strobile, subtiler, timbrels, trilbies. | |
+2 letters: beastlier, billeters, bleariest, blighters, blistered, blurriest, brawliest, bristlier, brittlest, brutalise, burbliest, butleries, dribblets, herbalist, laborites, liberates, liberties, librettos, limberest, marbliest, rubbliest, strobilae, strobiles, stubblier, thuribles, tilburies, verbalist. | |
+3 letters: algebraist, bairnliest, belittlers, belletrist, blistering, blueprints, blustering, boilersuit, bolstering, brambliest, briolettes, bristliest, brutalised, brutalises, brutalizes, cabriolets, calibrates, crumbliest, embrittles, filibuster, herbalists, liberalist, liberators, libertines, librettist, litterbags, litterbugs, lobstering, lubricates, potboilers, resistible, rubellites, sailboater, stabilizer, strippable, trembliest, tribulates, trilobites, verbalists, vestibular. | |
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