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Definition: Blast |
BlastNoun1. A long and hard-hit fly ball. 2. A sudden very loud noise. 3. A strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust". 4. An explosion (as of dynamite). 5. Intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak". Verb1. Make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone". 2. Hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer". 3. Use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Computing | 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. Source: Jargon File. |
Aerospace | 1. The brief and rapid movement of air or other fluid away from a center of outward pressure, as in an explosion. 2. The characteristic instantaneous rise in pressure, followed by a sudden decrease, that results from this movement, differentiated from less rapid pressure changes. 3. To take off from a launching pad or stand. Said of a rocket in reference to the blast effects caused by rapid combustion of fuel as the rocket starts to move upward. (Popular).This term is commonly used for explosion, but the two terms should be distinguished. In space, an explosion could take place, but no blast would follow. (references) |
Literature | Blast In full blast. In the extreme. In America will be heard such a sentence as this: "When she came to the meeting in her yellow hat and feathers, wasn't she in full blast?" A metaphor from the blast furnace in full operation. Blast To strike by lightning; to make to wither. The "blasted oak." This is the sense in which the word is used as an exclamation. "If it [the [ghost] assume my noble father's person, I'll cross it, though it blast me." Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Metallurgy | The air supplied by a blower to a blast furnace. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | The brief and rapid movement of air, vapor or fluid away from a center of outward pressure, as in an explosion or in the combustion of rocket fuel; the pressure accompanying this movement. This term is commonly used for "explosion," but the two terms may be distinguished. (references) |
Mining | A. The ignition of a heavy explosive charge. Syn:shot b. A miner's term for compressed air underground c. Scot. A fall of water in the downcast shaft to produce or quicken ventilation. d. A suffix signifying a texture formed entirely by metamorphism e. The operation of increasing the diamond exposure on a bit face by removing some of the matrix metal through the abrasive action of grains of sand carried in a high-pressure stream of air. Also called sandblast f. An increase in firing temperature of a kiln immediately before ending the firing operation. g. The period during which a blast furnace is in blast; i.e., inoperation. i.e., inoperation. (references) |
Physics | Wing-tip vortices left in the atmosphere behind aircraft whose wing is generating lift; in the case of large or heavy aircraft, this is very powerful and persistent. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Generally, an explosion; Specifically, the instantaneous rise in pressure, followed by its sudden decrease, that results from an explosion; Can cause considerable bodily harm and damage to structures. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Stands for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, developed by Stephen Altschul at the NCBI. BLAST is both
BLAST is designed to take a query sequence (called the target sequence) and pairwise comparing it to all the sequences in a large (multi-gigabyte) library, finding the most similar sequences. Because it is comparing the target sequence to so many other sequences, the BLAST algorthm must be extremely fast. The algorithm works by searching for small regions that are exactly the same in the two sequences and then attempting to extend the alignment to either side until the comparison score reaches a certain threshold.
The BLAST web server, hosted by the NCBI, allows anyone with a web browser to perform similarity searches against constantly updated databases of proteins and DNA that include most of the newly sequenced organisms. The server includes many programs, but the most important are the following ones:
This program, given a DNA query, returns the most similar DNA sequences from the DNA database that the user specifies.
This program, given a protein query, returns the most similar DNA sequences from the protein database that the user specifies.Program
Nucleotide-nucleotide BLAST (blastn)
Protein-protein BLAST (blastp)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "BLAST."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BLAST | English | Bell Labs Layered Space-Time | Computing |
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Synonyms: BlastSynonyms: attack (n), bang (n), blow (n), blowup (n), clap (n), eruption (n), fire (n), flack (n), flak (n), gust (n), loud noise (n), blare (v), boom (v), nail (v), shell (v), smash (v), strafe (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure. |
Attack | Bomb, rocket, blast. |
Destruction | Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate. |
Malediction | Interjection: woe to! beshrew! ruat coelum! ill betide, woe betide; confusion seize! damn! damn it! damn you! damn you to hell! go to hell! go to blazes! confound! blast! curse! devil take! hang! out with! a plague upon! out upon! aroynt! honi soit! parbleu! |
Navigation | Fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide. |
Violence | Outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent. |
Wind | Gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Blast! This is why I hate flying (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas) Blast this Christmas music (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price) Blast it all (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright) Blast her with your Canary Cry (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster) Uh, I've gotta blast a douche (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | Save me from the blast (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox) Words were passed in a shotgun blast (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) The clock's run out, time's up, over blast (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) Cause just yesterday them fools tried to blast me (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube) So you blast to the left and you sail to the right (Rock Your Body; performing artist: JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Blast of Silence (1961) Tapping a Blast Furnace (1899) A Blast at the Solvay Quarries (1898) Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast (2003) Hawaiian Blast (1999) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Peripheral blood smear showing blast crisis of chronic myelogenous leukemia. Credit: CDC. |  | Cygnus Loop Supernova Blast Wave. Credit: NASA. |
 | Small craft gathered around USS Mindanao (ARG-3) during salvage and rescue efforts shortly after Mount Hood blew up about 350 yards away from Mindanao's port side. Mindanao, and seven motor minesweepers (YMS) moored to her starboard side, were damaged by the blast, as were USS Alhena (AKA-9), in the photo's top left center, and USS Oberrender (DE-344), in top right. Note the extensive oil slick, with tracks through it made by small craft. Credit: NAVY. |  | Underway off the Norwegian coast during a World War II minelaying operation. Note mine launching doors in the ship's transom, and snow on her gun blast shield. Credit: NAVY. |
 | A chilling blast from across the Atlantic. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Southern Rhodesia. The steelworks at Que Que ... These three stoves feed the blast furnaces with hot air ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Springtime, Germany, 1945. While fruit trees blossom (right), the M.A.N. plant is a scene of desolation. In the distance, outside of the factory's site, are blocks and blocks of windowless and partially unroofed workers' homes damaged by the blast and con. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Blast furnaces from west bank of Maumee River, Toledo, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A Copper blast furnace, Hancock, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Steelworkers at blast furnace, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Short low horn blast. |
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Desiderius Erasmus | They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. |
James Jeffrey Roche | Comrade-love is as a welding blast of candid flame and ardent temperature: glowing more fervent, it doth bind more fast. |
Joseph Addison | Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? |
Robert Burns | When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The forest was obscure around them, and creaked with a blast that was passing through it. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Since the new blast which had burst upon him, had thrown him into this cloister, Jean Valjean had but one thought, to remain there |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | There came the splattering blast of motorcycles starting |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It would be easy to cut their threads any time with a little sharper blast from the north |
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Health | As the leukemic blast cells accumulate in the bone marrow, they begin to crowd out the normal blood cells that develop there. (references) | |
Whether it's the screech of a chain saw, the sudden blast of a hunting rifle, or the roar of a lawn mower, exposure to loud sounds can cause Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL). (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Colombia | No one was injured in the blast. (references) |
Bangladesh | In January 2000, two unidentified persons threw a bomb at the building that houses the Bangla-language daily Dainik Azadi, causing no major damage; however, a few minutes later, another bomb blast damaged the managing editor's car. (references) | |
Economic History | Brazil | The largest investment projects currently underway in Brazil are: Usinor building a mill for galvanized sheets especially for the automobile industry (US$450 million); CSN building a mill for galvanized steel for the automobile/construction/household appliances market (US$200 million); CSN/Thyssen building a special plant for galvanized steel (US$200 million) and CST building a new blast furnace and expanding its production of slabs by 1.5 million Mtons (US$300 million). (references) |
Human Rights | Algeria | On March 6, a bomb blast in the province of Jijel killed 2 and wounded 15. On March 9, a homemade bomb killed two persons and injured five in Skikda. (references) |
Minorities | Bangladesh | The army arrived to investigate approximately 10 hours after the blast. (references) |
United Kingdom | A blast bomb also was thrown at police seeking to protect the children. (references) | |
Political Economy | PERU | Import licenses have been abolished for all products except firearms, munitions and explosives; chemical precursors (used in illegal narcotics production); ammonium nitrate fertilizer (which has been used as a blast enhancer for terrorist car bombs); wild plant and animal species; and some radio and communication equipment. (references) |
Trade | Peru | The only remaining products requiring licenses are firearms, munitions and explosives imported by private persons, chemical precursors (applicable to cocaine production) and ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which has been used as a blast enhancer for terrorist car bombs. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint's infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either. Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell. She screams whenever monarchs meet, And parliaments as well, To bind the chains about her feet And toll her knell. And when the sovereign people cast The votes they cannot spell, Upon the pestilential blast Her clamors swell. For all to whom the power's given To sway or to compel, Among themselves apportion Heaven And give her Hell. Blary O'Gary |
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Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | The air rings with the song of our industry--rolling mills and blast furnaces, dynamos, dams, and assembly lines--the chorus of America the bountiful. |
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| "Blast" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.16% of the time. "Blast" is used about 977 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) | 80.16% | 783 | 8,834 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.9% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.79% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.64% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (common) | 0.51% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 977 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "blast": adding cold blast ♦ air blast ♦ air blast transformer ♦ at full blast ♦ blast agent ♦ blast crisis ♦ Blast draught ♦ blast ear ♦ blast fence ♦ blast furnace ♦ blast furnace bottom ♦ blast furnace stove ♦ blast gate ♦ blast him! ♦ blast hole ♦ Blast Injuries ♦ blast injury ♦ blast it! ♦ Blast lamp ♦ Blast nozzle ♦ blast of wind ♦ blast off ♦ blast off a satellite ♦ blast on the whistle ♦ blast one's way through ♦ blast orifice ♦ blast phase ♦ blast pipe ♦ blast wave ♦ blast wave difraction ♦ blast you! ♦ bomb blast ♦ bugle blast ♦ Cold blast ♦ Fire blast ♦ grit blast technique ♦ Hot blast ♦ hot blast stove ♦ In full blast ♦ jumping the blast ♦ otic blast injury ♦ premature blast ♦ sand blast ♦ seam blast ♦ solo blast ♦ to blast ♦ trumpet blast ♦ wind blast. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blast": blast-bays, blast-dried, Blast-'em-to-bits, Blast-em-up, blast-furnace, blast-furnace iron, blast-furnaces, blast-in, blast-off, blast-retaining, blast-through, blast-wall, blast-wind. | |
Ending with "blast": bomb-blast. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
map blast | 7,210 | blast max | 47 |
blast | 608 | blast cleaning | 46 |
blast mad | 363 | sonic 3d blast | 45 |
disney blast | 236 | blast cum | 44 |
buell blast | 191 | blast media | 42 |
billiards blast | 156 | b blast from | 40 |
nuclear blast | 142 | 1669 blast site | 40 |
blast.com mad | 115 | blast hamster | 39 |
blast from the past | 95 | email blast | 37 |
blast furnace | 74 | baker blast | 36 |
fax blast | 73 | blast de tour | 36 |
blast thru | 64 | blast ncbi | 34 |
worm blast | 62 | blast indiana | 34 |
nuclear blast record | 61 | blast off | 33 |
blast marble | 61 | full blast | 33 |
blast music new off where | 58 | blast corps | 33 |
myo blast | 57 | anal blast | 32 |
blast cabinet | 56 | blast room | 31 |
blast com map | 50 | blast musical | 28 |
sand blast | 48 | blast rodney | 27 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "blast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bie trompës (trumpet), bie trombës (trumpet), tingull (noise, note, ring, sound, twang), shpërthim (access, blowout, burst, conniption, detonation, effusion, eruption, explosion, fit, flare, flare up, furor, gush, gust, outbreak, outburst, output, paroxysm, report, Sally, tornado), shpërthej (blow up, break, break out, burst, detonate, erupt, explode, flame out, flame up, freak, implode, let off, poke out), shkulm ere (blow, flaw, flurry, gust, squall), shfryj (blow, bluster, decompress, frown, grumble, huff, inveigh, leak, let off steam, natter, puff, vituperate, whiffle, wreak), rrymë ajri (draft, draught), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), plasje (backfire, bang, blowout, blowup, burst, cleavage, detonation, plunk, report), orgji (bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, high jinks, orgy, riot, rouse), hedh në erë, dëmtoj (affect, batter, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench). (various references) | |
Arabic | فجر (aurora, beginning, blow up, burst, dawn, detonate, dynamite, explode, let flow, morning, set off, shot out, spout, spurt, undermine), هبة (benevolence, bestowal, boon, bounty, charity, contribution, donation, endowment, gift, grant, liberality, offering, outburst, present, privilege, puff, waft, whiff), نفخة (breath, flatulence, flatulency, gust, puff, whiff), نسف (blasting, blow up, blowing up, blowup, sinking, torpedo, torpedoing), لغم (booby trap, mine, sap, shot), تيار هوائي (draft), سرعة (alacrity, career, despatch, dispatch, expedition, gait, haste, hastiness, hurry, lick, pace, pizzazz, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, smartness, speed, spurt, swiftness, tilt, velocity), عصفة, ضرب في البوق, صفرة, صد (alienation, baffle, balk, baulk, bear down, beat, beat off, estop, estoppel, exclusion, fend, fend off, fight off, hit, hit back, hold off, jolt, kick, negative, parry, poach, push, push aside, push back, quash, rebuff, repel, repudiate, repulse, repulsion, return, riposte, snub, spurn, stamp down, stave, stay, stay away, stem, throwback, toss, turn away, ward, ward off), إنفجار (blaze, burst, detonation, explosion, fit, flare, outbreak, outburst, outcrop, puff and blow, report, salvo, shout), أصاب (bilge, come, get, hit, infect, inflict, pick off, shoot, strike), ريح (wind), دمر (annihilate, break down, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, flatten, immolate, overthrow, prey, pull down, pulverize, ravage, ruin, smash, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wreck). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вредя (do harm, harm, harmed, hurt, interfere, militate), порив на вятър (gust, scud, spirt, spurt), порицавам остро, болест (affection, ailment, disease, distemper, illness, malady, sickness, trouble), заряд (load, shot), застрелвам (plug, pot, shoot, shoot down, shoot up), подривам (blow up, disrupt, eat away, erode, gut, sap, shovel under, tear up, undermine, wash, wash out, wear away), взривявам (bust, shoot), струя (current, flow, gush, jet, rush, spout, squirt, stream, trail, well up), разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), разбивам с експлозив, силен вятър (high wind), свирене (piping, tootle, whistle), свиря силно, удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, bruise, bust, catch, douse, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, knock, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), взрив (burst, detonation, explosion, outburst, puff, report). (various references) | |
Chinese | 疾风, 疾風 , 爆 (dynamite, to blow up, to demolish), 吹 (boast, brag, end in failure, puff, to blow). (various references) | |
Czech | znièit (annihilate, demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, do for, do in, eat up, expunge, infringe, Mar, overthrow, overturn, ruin, smite, spoil, take out, wreck), zatroubení (beep), zatracenì (damnation, darned, dash it, doggone), závan (blow, flatus, guff, gust, puff, wag, whiff), vyhodit do vzduchu (explode), výbuch (blaze, burst, detonation, eruption, explosion, gush, gust, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, salvo), trhat (gather, mammock, pick, pick(up), pluck, scarify, tug, worry), spálit (burn, burn down, burn up, char, incinerate, scorch, sear), odstřelit, náraz (bump, hit, impact, incidence, percussion, pull, rush, stroke), nápor (assault, brunt, onrush, onset, thrust), hlahol (peal, sound). (various references) | |
Danish | blaeseluft (wind), voldsom luftstrøm (wake), udladning, skud (bang, clump shoots, filling, filling weft, flush, fruit cane, green shoot, pick, rod, shoot, shot, shute, sprout, tiller, weft, woof), medstrøm (wake), lufttrykbølge, eksplosion (explosion). (various references) | |
Dutch | blaaswind (wind), zog (furrow, wrinkle), wind (wind), schot (Scot, Scotsman, wall), luchtstraal (air jet, plume), dynamische geheugenvrijgave, drukgolf, detonatie van de springlading (shot), afschot (hunter kill, kill, shot, sportsman toll). (various references) | |
Farsi | وزش (Bop, Guff, Plunk, Whiff, Whop), ترکاندن (Blowup, Chap, Pop), سوزاندن (Burn, Cauterize, Fry, Incense, Incinerate, Scorch, Sear), سوز, صدای ترکیدن , صدای انفجار, صدای شیپور (Clang, Trump), جریان هوایابخار, انفجار (Blowout, Blowup, Burst, Bust, Eruption, Explosion, Gust, Outburst, Pop), دم (At, Breath, Instant, Minute, Moment, Tail, Train, Trice), بادزدگی (Mildew), باد (Air, Gale, Squall, Whiff). (various references) | |
Finnish | voimakas räjähdys, räjähdys (detonation, explosion), louhia (quarry), hipat (celebration, fling, party, spree), detonaatio (détonation, detonation). (various references) | |
French | souffle (blow). (various references) | |
German | windstoß (flurry, gust, gust of wind), schuss (ball, charge, dash, gunshot, kick, pop, punt, round, schuss, shot, splash, touch, weft, woof), explosion (burst, detonation, explosion, fulmination), detonation (detonation, explosion), Bö (bump, gust, squall). (various references) | |
Greek | έκρηξη (blasting, blow out, blow up, burst, detonation, eruption, explosion, outbreak, outburst), φύσημα (blatancy, blow, flurry, gust, puff, snort, whiff). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תרוע" (alarm, blare, cheer, cry, shout, tattoo, trumpet call), צרבון, טרטור (harassment, hum, noise, rattle), ""ף (recoil, repulsion, shock), ""ף אויר, פצוץ (burst, bust, detonation, explosion), בט (bud, germ, sprout), ש"פון (blight, nip, smut), משב (blowing, breeze, gust, puff), ל ון (atrophy, degenerate), ל""וף (bear down, beat off, fend off, fight off, hold off, jolt, push, repel, repulse, shove, stave off, ward off), ל"תפוצץ (burst, bust, detonate, explode, go off), לחצרץ (blare, blow the trumpet, trumpet), לפוצץ (blow, blow up, bust, detonate, explode, let off), לש"וף (blight, parch), פרץ רוח. (various references) | |
Hungarian | robbanás (blowup, burst, bursting, detonation, explosion, fulmination), légnyomás. (various references) | |
Indonesian | menganginkan, meletuskan, letusan (bang, eruption, gushing, outburst), angin kencang (bluster). (various references) | |
Italian | esplosione (bang, burst, crack, eruption, explosion, outbreak, outburst, raptures). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 爆風. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ばくふう, ばくは (blow up, explosion). (various references) | |
Korean | 돌' (gust). (various references) | |
Manx | blestal (blow up), bleaystey (blow out; explosion, detonate, detonation, dynamite, explode), bleastey (burst). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | murchar (fade, flag, shrivel, wilt, wither), corrente de ar (air flow, air stream, airflow, draft, draught), destruir (butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, destroy, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat, end, explode, extinguish, finish off, havoc, impair, kill, mine, obliterate, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, quench, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), dinamitar (dynamite), disparo (firing, round, shot, volley), explodir (burst, explode, fulminate, go), explosão (blow-up, bursting, bust, detonation, discharge, eruption, explosion, outbreak, outburst, upsurge), golpe (bat, biff, blow, bop, coup, dint, drive, floorer, hit, jab, knock, mouthful, putsch, scotch, smasher, sockdolager, stroke, swat), assopro (blowing), mal murcho, vento (drift, eddy, wind), pus da batateira, rajada de vento (blow, snorter), rebentamento (disruption), secar (blight, desiccate, drain, dry, exsiccate, fork, kipper, peter out, rub down, scorch, sear, shrivel, ted, wipe, wither), sopro (blow, blowing, breath, puff, souffle, whiff), sopro de fole, tiro (chase, enfilade, gunning, gunshot, pop, shoot, shot), influência maléfica. (various references) | |
Romanian | blestema (ban, beshrew, blaspheme, blow, curse, cuss, damn, darn, execrate, imprecate, swear), sunet al unui instrument de suflat, suflu (blowing, breath, soul, whiff, wind), suflare puternicã de vânt, strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), ruina (bankrupt, blight, crock, destroy, dilapidate, impair, Mar, overturn, ravage, ruin, sink, undo), rafalã de vânt, explozie (blaze, burst, bursting, detonation, explosion, outbreak, round, shot, spirt, tornado), exploda (blow out, blow up, burst, detonate, explode, fulminate, go bang, go off, go up), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), dinamita o stâncã, detunãturã (burst up, gun shot, report, roar, thunder), detuna (annihilate, destroy, explode, fulminate, thunder), aer insuflat (blow). (various references) | |
Russian | сильный порыв ветра (flurry), взрывная волна, взрывать взрыв;порыв , взрывать (blow up, detonate, explode, implode, shoot, touch off), взрыв (agony, bang, blowup, burst, detonation, eruption, explosion, gale, gust, outbreak, outburst, outbust, plosion, spurt), вдувать (blow into, insufflate), продувать (bleed, scavenge), повреждать (cripple, damage, impair, injure), дутье (air blast, blasting). (various references) | |
Scottish | osag (a blast, breeze), gon (annoy; bewitch, wound). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zvuk duvačkog instrumenta, proklinjati (curse, imprecate), jak nalet vetra (flaw), eksplozija (blowout, blowup, burst, detonation, explosion, fulmination, outburst), dizati u vazduh, štetiti (damage, harm). (various references) | |
Spanish | explosión (bang, blowoff, blowup, burst, explosion, outburst, plosion, report), chorro (effluent, flow, gush, jet, puff, spirt, squirt, stream, swash, trickle), barreno (blast hole, bore). (various references) | |
Swedish | vindstöt (puff, squall), spränga (blow up, break, burst, crack, detonate, explode, smash), explosion (burst, detonation, explosion, fulmination, plosion). (various references) | |
Thai | เปิ""ังสุ"เสียง ((at) full blast). (various references) | |
Turkish | beddua etmek (curse, imprecate), bangır bangır çalmak (blare), bas bas bağırmak (bawl), ötme (crowing, hoop, singing, song, sounding, squeal, warble), üfleme (blow, blowing, insufflation, puff, puffing, wind), alem (bat, bender, binge, blind, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, class of beings, condition, creation, entertainment, jollification, junket, kingdom, nature, orgy, party, potation, potations, razzle-dazzle, realm, revel, revelry, riot, rollicking time, spree, state, universe, whoopee, world), şiddetli rüzgâr (gale, strong wind), azarlama (castigation, dressing down, lash, rap, rating, rebuke, reprimand, ribbing, scolding, strafing, upbraiding, vituperation, wigging), öfkelenme (blaze, blow out), havaya uçurmak (blow up, explode), yıkmak (batter down, blow down, break down, confound, dash, demolish, destroy, do for, drag down, explode, extinguish, housebreak, knock down, knock over, level, overthrow, pull dawn, puncture, ravage, ruin, shatter, shoot down, split, subvert, take down, unbuild), köpürme (blaze, effervescence, fizz, foaming, froth, frothiness, rage), kavurmak (bake, parboil, parch, roast, scorch, sear, torrefy), lanet etmek (consign to perdition, curse, damn, dash, execrate), patlatmak (blow up, bust, detonate, explode, let off, make blow up, make burst, make explode, pop, puncture, set off, touch off), patlayıcı miktarı, rüzgâr (blow, breeze, flatus, wind), soğuktan kavrulma (nip), cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сирена (buzzer, hooter, mermaid, sea cow, siren), сильний порив вітру, рознос, шкодити (affect, harm, wrong), вибух (bang, blow up, blowing up, burst, bursting, detonation, explosion, howl, hurricane, outbreak, outleap, storm, tornado), нападати (assault, attack, castigate, fall upon, fly at, insult, lay on, pile on, pounce, set upon, strike), знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, consume, crush, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither), підривати (cave, detonate, disrupt, erode, explode, fulminate, sap, tear up, undermine). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lu"ng gió (exhalation). (various references) | |
Welsh | saethu (dart, fire, shoot), pwffio (puff), pwff (puff), mallu (blight, rot), malltod (blight, rot), deifio (blight, scorch, singe), deifiad, chwythu (blow, breathe, hiss), chwythiad, chwa (breeze, gust, puff). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adtoniti, adtonitis, cantu, cantum, flatus, inflatus, Pseudomonas batatas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 4, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Apo prostagmatoV kuriou apolountai apo de pneumatoV orghV autou afanisqhsontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Flante Deo perisse et spiritu irae eius esse consumptos |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And repen hem, God blowende, to han pershid, and thury the spirit of his wrathe to be wastid. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Job Chapter 4, Verse 9 |
| Albanian | Me frymën e Perëndisë ata vdesin, era e zemërimit të tij i tret ata. |
| Cebuano | Pinaagi sa gininhawa sa Dios nalaglag sila, Ug pinaagi sa unos sa kasuko niya nangaut-ut sila. |
| Croatian | Od daha Božjega oni pogibaju, na gnjevni mu disaj nestaju sa zemlje. |
| Danish | For Guds Ånd går de til Grunde, for hans Vredes Pust går de til. |
| Dutch | Van den adem Gods vergaan zij, en van het geblaas van Zijn neus worden zij verdaan. |
| Finnish | Jumalan henkäyksestä he hukkuvat, hänen vihansa hengestä he häviävät. |
| French | Ils périssent par le souffle de Dieu, Ils sont consumés par le vent de sa colère, |
| German | durch den Odem Gottes sind sie umgekommen und vom Geist seines Zorns vertilgt. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè Bondye fache, li soufle sou yo, yo mouri. Lè van tanpèt Bondye a leve, yo disparèt. |
| Hungarian | Az Istennek lehelletétõl elvesznek, az õ haragjának szelétõl elpusztulnak. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Bagai badai, begitulah murka Allah membinasakan mereka hingga punah! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Binasalah mereka itu oleh hembusan Allah, tertumpaslah mereka itu oleh nafas hidungnya. |
| Italian | A un soffio di Dio periscono e dallo sfogo della sua ira sono annientati. |
| Maori | Huna ana ratou e te ha o te Atua, moti iho ratou i te hau o tona riri. |
| Norwegian | De omkom for Guds ånde, og for hans vredes pust blev de til intet. |
| Portuguese | Pelo sopro de Deus perecem, e pela rajada da sua ira são consumidos. |
| Rumanian | Aceia pier prin suflarea lui Dumnezeu, nimiciyi de vkntul mkniei Lui. |
| Spanish | Perecen por el aliento de Dios, y por el soplo de su ira son consumidos. |
| Swedish | för Guds andedräkt förgås de och för en fnysning av hans näsa försvinna de. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blast": blasted, blastema, blastemal, blastemas, blastemata, blastematic, blaster, blasters, blastie, blastier, blasties, blastiest, blasting, blastings, blastment, blastments, blastocoel, blastocoele, blastocoeles, blastocoelic, blastocoels, blastocyst, blastocysts, blastoderm, blastoderms, blastodisc, blastodiscs, blastoff, blastoffs, blastoma, blastomas, blastomata, blastomere, blastomeres, blastomycoses, blastomycosis, blastopore, blastopores, blastoporic, blastospore, blastospores, blasts, blastula, blastulae, blastulas, blastulation, blastulations, blasty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "blast": ameloblast, counterblast, epiblast, erythroblast, fibroblast, hypoblast, idioblast, lymphoblast, megaloblast, melanoblast, myeloblast, myoblast, oblast, odontoblast, osteoblast, sandblast, statoblast, trophoblast, windblast. (additional references) | |
Words containing "blast": ameloblasts, counterblasts, diploblastic, epiblastic, epiblasts, erythroblastic, erythroblastoses, erythroblastosis, erythroblasts, fibroblastic, fibroblasts, glioblastoma, glioblastomas, glioblastomata, holoblastic, hypoblasts, idioblastic, idioblasts, lymphoblastic, lymphoblasts, medulloblastoma, medulloblastomas, medulloblastomata, megaloblastic, megaloblasts, melanoblasts, meroblastic, meroblastically, myeloblastic, myeloblasts, myoblasts, neuroblastoma, neuroblastomas, neuroblastomata, oblasti, oblasts, odontoblastic, odontoblasts, osteoblastic, osteoblasts, retinoblastoma, retinoblastomas, retinoblastomata, sandblasted, sandblaster, sandblasters, sandblasting, sandblasts, statoblasts, triploblastic, trophoblastic. (additional references) | |
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"Blast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alast, balast, balist, Baltsa, bapst, belost, biast, blaat, blags, blait, blant, blarst, blart, blas, blasp, blass, blato, blatt, Blatta, blaz, blazet, Blazy, blets, bliaut, blist, Blitt, blizt, blusty, byast, dbfast, hlast, Vlasta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blast" (pronounced bla"st) |
| 4 | -l a" s t | classed, glassed, last. |
| 3 | -a" s t | aghast, amassed, assed, Bast, cast, caste, fast, gassed, Gast, grassed, harassed, hast, lambaste, massed, mast, miscast, passed, past, precast, recast, surpassed, unsurpassed, vast. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blats. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: albs, alts, bals, bast, bats, blat, labs, last, lats, salt, slab, slat, stab, tabs. | |
-2 letters: abs, alb, als, alt, bal, bas, bat, lab, las, lat, sab, sal, sat, tab, tas. | |
-3 letters: ab, al, as, at, ba, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ablest, basalt, blasts, blasty, bleats, bloats, oblast, stable, stably, tablas, tables. | |
+2 letters: ablates, ablauts, abvolts, albatas, albites, astilbe, atabals, balatas, baldest, ballast, ballets, ballots, basalts, bastile, battles, beastly, bestial, blasted, blaster, blastie, boatels, borstal, buttals, bytalks, cablets, cobalts, labrets, lambast, oblasti, oblasts, oblates, saltbox, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, stibial, sublate, tablets, tabulis, timbals, tymbals. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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