blast
//blɑːst//
Forms
- Plural
- blasts
- present (v1)
- blast
- past (v2)
- blasted
- past participle (v3)
- blasted
- present participle
- blasting
- 3rd person singular
- blasts
Definitions
1.A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).
- Their warm, thick under covering of fine wool protects them from the coldest blasts.
- And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; / His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.
2.A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.
3.The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
- Many tons of iron were melted at a blast.
- Blast was produced by bellows worked by four 'blowers', three of whom worked at a time while the fourth stood ready to replace one of the others.
4.A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the tuyeres of a blast furnace, a person's mouth, etc.
1.To make a loud noise.
2.To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.(informal)
- There was no flutter of claws requiring me to blast a tape.
3.To shatter, as if by an explosion.
- Although Maroczy favored solid, positional chess, there were times when he changed his style and blasted his opponents' defenses to bits.
4.To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
- Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4851
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English blast, from Old English blǣst (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāstu, from Proto-Germanic *blēstuz (“blowing, blast”).