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BLAST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very long fly ball
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("blast" is a kind of...):
fly; fly ball ((baseball) a hit that flies up in the air)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Derivation:
blast (hit hard)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Intense adverse criticism
Example:
don't give me any flak
Synonyms:
attack; blast; fire; flack; flak
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("blast" is a kind of...):
criticism; unfavorable judgment (disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A highly pleasurable or exciting experience
Example:
celebrating after the game was a blast
Synonyms:
blast; good time
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("blast" is a kind of...):
experience (an event as apprehended)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A sudden very loud noise
Synonyms:
bam; bang; blast; clap; eruption
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("blast" is a kind of...):
noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blast"):
water hammer (the banging sound of steam in pipes)
Derivation:
blast (make a strident sound)
Sense 5
Meaning:
An explosion (as of dynamite)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("blast" is a kind of...):
blowup; detonation; explosion (a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blast"):
bomb blast (the explosion of a bomb)
Derivation:
blast (use explosives on)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A strong current of air
Example:
the tree was bent almost double by the gust
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("blast" is a kind of...):
air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blast"):
bluster (a violent gusty wind)
sandblast (a blast of wind laden with sand)
puff; puff of air; whiff (a short light gust of air)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they blast ... he / she / it blasts
Past simple: blasted
Past participle: blasted
-ing form: blasting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):
shrink; shrivel; shrivel up; wither (wither, as with a loss of moisture)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Shatter as if by explosion
Synonyms:
blast; knock down
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):
dash; smash (break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Criticize harshly or violently
Example:
The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage
Synonyms:
blast; crucify; pillory; savage
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):
criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 4
Meaning:
Fire a shot
Example:
the gunman blasted away
Synonyms:
blast; shoot
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):
discharge; fire (cause to go off)
Verb group:
hit; pip; shoot (hit with a missile from a weapon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blast"):
blaze; blaze away (shoot rapidly and repeatedly)
overshoot (shoot beyond or over (a target))
sharpshoot; snipe (aim and shoot with great precision)
fire; open fire (start firing a weapon)
gun (shoot with a gun)
pump (deliver forth)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Use explosives on
Example:
The enemy has been shelling us all day
Synonyms:
blast; shell
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):
bomb; bombard (throw bombs at or attack with bombs)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blast"):
crump (bombard with heavy shells)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
blast (an explosion (as of dynamite))
blaster (a workman employed to blast with explosives)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Hit hard
Example:
He smashed a 3-run homer
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):
hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
blast (a very long fly ball)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Make with or as if with an explosion
Example:
blast a tunnel through the Alps
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):
cut (form by probing, penetrating, or digging)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 8
Meaning:
Create by using explosives
Example:
blast a passage through the mountain
Synonyms:
blast; shell
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 9
Meaning:
Apply a draft or strong wind to to
Example:
the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):
blow (cause air to go in, on, or through)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s something
Sense 10
Meaning:
Make a strident sound
Example:
She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone
Synonyms:
blare; blast
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):
make noise; noise; resound (emit a noise)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence examples:
Cars blast in the streets
The streets blast with cars
Derivation:
blast (a sudden very loud noise)
Context examples:
NASA's Swift, Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer missions, along with dozens of ground-based observatories, including the NASA-funded Pan-STARRS survey, later captured the fading glow of the blast's expanding debris.
(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)
This series of events can be likened to the meteor blast that shattered windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia, last year.
(NASA Mars weathercam helps find big new crater, NASA)
"That large impact would have blasted enough material off the surface of Mars to form a ring," said Andrew Hesselbrock, a doctoral student at Purdue who helped develop the model.
(Mars May Have Had Rings, and May Once Again, VOA News)
Light from the blast that created the remnant lit up skies above Earth in 1987.
(Star Explosion is Lopsided, NASA)
Dukono Volcano has been blasting ash above Helmahara Island and the surrounding waters since 2003.
(Plume from Dukono Volcano, Indonesia, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Upon detonation, a first blast wave expelled an expanding fireball of plasma, a hot gas of electrically charged particles.
(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)
The malignant cells show minimal differentiation and are called blasts, either myeloid blasts (myeloblasts) or lymphoid blasts (lymphoblasts).
(Acute leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)
In this phase, 10% to 19% of the cells in the blood and bone marrow are blast cells (immature blood cells).
(Accelerated phase chronic myelogenous leukemia, NCI Dictionary)
Scientists believe magnetic fields can protect a planet, fending off the atmosphere-stripping blasts of the solar wind.
(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)
A neoplasm of lymphoblasts committed to the B-cell lineage, typically composed of small to medium-sized blast cells.
(B Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
