BLAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blast mean? 

• BLAST (noun)
  The noun BLAST has 6 senses:

1. a very long fly ball

2. a sudden very loud noise

3. a strong current of air

4. an explosion (as of dynamite)

5. a highly pleasurable or exciting experience

6. intense adverse criticism

  Familiarity information: BLAST used as a noun is common.

• BLAST (verb)
  The verb BLAST has 10 senses:

1. make a strident sound

2. hit hard

3. use explosives on

4. apply a draft or strong wind to to

5. create by using explosives

6. make with or as if with an explosion

7. fire a shot

8. criticize harshly or violently

9. shatter as if by explosion

10. shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly

  Familiarity information: BLAST used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLAST (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:

A sudden very loud noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

bam; bang; blast; clap; eruption

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 3

Meaning:

A strong current of air

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

blast; blow; gust

Context example:

the tree was bent almost double by the gust

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)

Sense 4

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 5

Meaning:

A highly pleasurable or exciting experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

blast; good time

Context example:

celebrating after the game was a blast

Hypernyms ("blast" is a kind of...):

experience (an event as apprehended)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Intense adverse criticism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

attack; blast; fire; flack; flak

Context example:

don't give me any flak

Hypernyms ("blast" is a kind of...):

criticism; unfavorable judgment (disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings)

• BLAST (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a strident sound

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

blare; blast

Context example:

She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hit hard

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

blast; boom; nail; smash

Context example:

He smashed a 3-run homer

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 3

Meaning:

Use explosives on

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

blast; shell

Context example:

The enemy has been shelling us all day

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 4

Meaning:

Apply a draft or strong wind to to

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us

Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):

blow (cause air to go in, on, or through)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Create by using explosives

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

blast; shell

Context example:

blast a passage through the mountain

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 6

Meaning:

Make with or as if with an explosion

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

blast a tunnel through the Alps

Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):

cut (form by probing, penetrating, or digging)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Fire a shot

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

blast; shoot

Context example:

the gunman blasted away

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 8

Meaning:

Criticize harshly or violently

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

blast; crucify; pillory; savage

Context example:

The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage

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 9

Meaning:

Shatter as if by explosion

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

blast; knock down

Hypernyms (to "blast" is one way to...):

dash; smash (break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 10

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

 Context examples 

An acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in which the blasts do not show evidence of myeloid differentiation by morphology and conventional cytochemistry.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Minimal Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

An acute myeloid leukemia (AML) characterized by blasts with evidence of maturation to more mature neutrophils.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Maturation, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

The required bone marrow or peripheral blood blast percentage for the diagnosis of AML is 20% (WHO classification).

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute myeloid leukemia with at least 20% blasts in the bone marrow or blood, and either a previous history of myelodysplastic syndrome, multilineage dysplasia or myelodysplastic syndrome-related cytogenetic abnormalities.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Myelodysplasia-Related Changes, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the Auer rods (elongated needle structures that are found in the cytoplasm of leukemic blasts and are formed by clumps of azurophilic granular material) in a biological specimen.

(Auer Rod Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Monoblastic [FAB M5a (without differentiation) or M5b (with differentiation)] and acute myelomonocytic (M4) leukemias blasts stain when the butyrate substrate is used.

(Alpha Naphthyl Butyrate Esterase Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (M7) blasts stain strongly when the acetate substrate is used.

(Alpha Naphthyl Acetate Esterase Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute myeloid leukemia (AML) characterized by blasts without evidence of maturation to more mature neutrophils.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia without Maturation, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

An acute myeloid leukemia in which at least 50% of the blasts are of megakaryocytic lineage.

(Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

An acute leukemia in which the blasts lack sufficient evidence to classify as myeloid or lymphoid or they have morphologic and/or immunophenotypic characteristics of both myeloid and lymphoid cells.

(Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage, NCI Thesaurus)