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Blast Off

Definition: Blast Off

Blast Off

Verb

1. Launch with great force; "launch the rockets".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Blast Off

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

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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.

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Crosswords: Blast Off

Specialty definitions using "blast off": checking the furnace, coal drillerDROSS SKIMMERjumping the blastpresplittingrow shootingshot firer, shot lighter, slate shooter, syphon brick. (references)

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Modern Usage: Blast Off

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Blast Off (1956)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Blast Off

DomainTitle

Books

  • Blast Off! Rockets, Robots, Ray Guns, and Rarities from the Golden Age of Space Toys (reference)

  • Buzz Lightyear: Blast Off! (Punch & Play Book) (reference)

  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Blast Off, Splash Down! (reference)

  • Blast Off!: Rocketry for Elementary and Middle School Students (reference)

  • Blast Off With Action Sounds: Featuring Db's Sound Studio (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Richard Simmons - Blast Off The Pounds (3 pack) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Blast Off

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Expression: Blast Off

Expression using "blast off": blast off a satellite. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blast Off

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  blast off

33

  blast off the pound

3

  billy blast off

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Blast Off

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

уйти не попрощавшись, отрываться от земли (get off the ground, getting off the ground). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poleteti (dash, take off, wing), poletanje (mission, take off), lansirati (launch), lansiranje (launch, launching). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

despegue (de-wiring, slipping, takeoff, take-off), despegar un cohete, despegar (detach, lift off, peel off, take down, take off, takeoff, unstick). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skjuta upp (hold off, hunch, launch, postpone). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

стартувати (lift off), зліт (launching, levitation, start, take off), піти не попрощавшись. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Blast Off

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Blast Off


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 73 74      4F 66 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0073 0074      004F 0066 0066

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36786785862497272

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INDEX

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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