blasts

noun

Meaning

A violent gust of wind.
A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
A hit from a pipe.
The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace
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.
An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
To make a loud noise.
To shatter, as if by an explosion.
To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
To curse; to damn.
(sci-fi) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
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).

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