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Definition: Blast Off |
Blast OffVerb1. Launch with great force; "launch the rockets". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blast Off |
| Specialty definitions using "blast off": checking the furnace, coal driller ♦ DROSS SKIMMER ♦ jumping the blast ♦ presplitting ♦ row shooting ♦ shot firer, shot lighter, slate shooter, syphon brick. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Blast Off (1956) | |
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Expression using "blast off": blast off a satellite. Additional references. | |
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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 |
blast off | 33 |
blast off the pound | 3 |
billy blast off | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "blast off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndizem (blaze, flash, heat), ik (begone, clear off, depart, escape, exit, fly away, get along, get away, get out, give the guy to, go, go away, go off, go out, hence, leave, make away, make off, make one's bow, make oneself scarce, move away, pass, pass off, push off, retire, run away, run off, shoot through, take away, take off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إنطلاق في الهواء, إرتفاع في الهواء, أطلق قمر اصطناعي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отлепям се от земята, излитам (fly out, start, sweep up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | odstartovat (lift off, start, start off), odpálit (detonate, drive smth. in, explode, launch, spring, touch off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | être mis feu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | starten (commence, get under way, initate, kick-off, launch, launch forth, launch out, power up, race, run, set off, start, starts, take off, take-off, to launch), raketenstart (rocket assisted take off, rocket launching, rocket-assisted take-off), abschuss (blast, firing, hunter kill, kill, knocking out, launch, launching, loosing off, offal, shooting down, shot, sportsman toll), abheben (crawling, get out, lift off, pick up, raise, removal, set apart, take off, take out, take-off, withdraw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκτοξεύομαι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kilövés (blastoff, launch, launching, projection), kilõ rakétát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | peluncuran (chute, launching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astblay offay lançar (aim, carry, cast, cob, dart, fling, give over, heave, hurl, interject, jerk, launch, lay aside, pitch, plant, project, pump, pump up, put, send, shake, shoot, slam, sling, spit, throw, throw up, to book, to enter, to record, toss, vomit), lançamento (cast, casting, entry, fling, green shoot, jactation, jettison, launch, projection, put, release, shoot, shy, stroke, watering). (various references) уйти не попрощавшись, отрываться от земли (get off the ground, getting off the ground). (various references) poleteti (dash, take off, wing), poletanje (mission, take off), lansirati (launch), lansiranje (launch, launching). (various references) despegue (de-wiring, slipping, takeoff, take-off), despegar un cohete, despegar (detach, lift off, peel off, take down, take off, takeoff, unstick). (various references) skjuta upp (hold off, hunch, launch, postpone). (various references) havalanmak (fly, lift, rise, take off), fırlatmak (aim, bung, cast, cast away, catapult, chuck, chuck away, dart, eject, fling, hurl, hurtle, launch, pelt, project, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, swing, throw, toss, whisk). (various references) стартувати (lift off), зліт (launching, levitation, start, take off), піти не попрощавшись. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blastoff. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-f-l-o-s-t" | |
-2 letters: bloats, floats, flotas, oblast, offals. | |
-3 letters: aloft, altos, baffs, blast, blats, bloat, blots, boast, boats, boffs, bolas, bolts, botas, fatso, flabs, flats, float, flota, foals, loafs, lofts, lotas, offal, sabot, softa, staff, toffs, tolas. | |
-4 letters: abos, albs, also, alto, alts, baff, bals, bast, bats, blat, blot, boas, boat, boff, bola, bolt, bota, bots. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-f-f-l-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: blastoffs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 61 73 74      4F 66 66 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a s t   O f f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 0073 0074      004F 0066 0066 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36786785862497272 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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