blast

A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).countableuncountable

• And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; / His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.
• Their warm, thick under covering of fine wool protects them from the coldest blasts.

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.countableuncountable

A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.countableuncountable

The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.countableuncountable

• Many tons of iron were melted at a blast.

The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.countableuncountable

An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.countableuncountable

• arc blast
• She caught the full impact of the blast.

A direct and fast swing of a bat; a home run.countableuncountable

A verbal attack or punishment; a severe criticism or reprimand.countableuncountable

• My manager gave me a blast yesterday for coming in late.

An explosive charge for blasting.countableuncountable

• 1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts Large blasts are often used.

A loud, sudden sound.countable

• One blast upon his bugle horn / Were worth a thousand men.
• the blast of triumph o'er thy grave

To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.transitive

• Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear.

To make a loud noise.intransitive

To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.informaltransitive

• 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."
• There was no flutter of claws requiring me to blast a tape.

To shatter, as if by an explosion.transitive

• Although Maroczy favored solid, positional chess, there were times when he changed his style and blasted his opponents' defenses to bits.

To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).transitive

• Blast right through it.

To curse; to damn.transitive

• Blast it! Foiled again.

To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).transitive

• Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.

To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.

• A Ricketts and Stuart Holden one-two around the box then created a decent chance for an almost instant equaliser - but Welsh full-back Ricketts blasted over when a calmer finish could have been rewarded.

To shoot; to attack or shoot (someone or a place).ambitransitiveslang

• They showed up blasting.
• That's when we decided to blast him.

To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.transitive

• My manager suddenly blasted me yesterday for being a little late to work for five days in a row, because I was never getting myself up on time.

Used to show anger or disappointment: damnUKinformal

• Now, where's my Labour membership card, so I can consider whether to tear it up? Blast, it's plastic...

An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).

To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).informaltransitive

• 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.