blast
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Is blast a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) A loud, sudden sound.Examples: "One blast upon his bugle horn / Were worth a thousand men."; "the blast of triumph o'er thy grave"; "Then the captain sung out: ¶ "Stand away!" and the cannon let off such a blast right before me that it made me deef with the noise and pretty near blind with the smoke, and I judged I was gone."countable
2. (uncountable, broadcasting) Unwanted noise from a microphone.Examples: "[…] the microphone has been unostentatiously working out its own destiny here and abroad, mainly in America. Evolution seems to be most promising (in the elimination of "microphone blast" and background noises — common faults of the earlier types) in the direction of the electrostatic, or condenser, microphone, […]"uncountable
3. (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.Examples: "We had a blast at the party last night."countablefigurativelyinformaluncountable
4. (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.Examples: "an e-mail blast; a fax blast"countableuncountable
5. (bodybuilding, slang) A period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to a period of reduced intake.Examples: "blast and cruise"countableslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.Examples: "Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear."transitive
2. (intransitive) To make a loud noise.intransitive
3. (transitive, informal) To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.Examples: "Some kid is in his car blasting rap. You know, bass in the trunk and you can hear it 4 blocks away? I signal over to him and say "Hey, turn it up, I can't hear it." He turns around and says, "Shut Up Grandpa.""informaltransitive
4. (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.transitive
5. (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).Examples: "Blast right through it."transitive
6. (transitive) To curse; to damn.Examples: "Blast it! Foiled again."transitive
intj (English)
1. (chiefly British, informal, mildly blasphemous) Used to show anger or disappointment: damnExamples: "Now, where's my Labour membership card, so I can consider whether to tear it up? Blast, it's plastic..."Britishinformal
noun (English)
1. (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
verb (English)
1. (biology, informal, transitive) To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).Examples: "Blasting nucleotide sequences is not always that easy, because there is more ambiguity to the nucleotide sequence, and good hits have to have a 70% homology over the whole sequence to be reliable, compared to 25% with proteins."informaltransitive
name (English)
1. (biology) An algorithm which compares similarities between sequences of nucleotides in nucleic acids or of amino acids in proteins.
Definition source: Wiktionary