(n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.
(n.) The exhaust steam from and 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.
(n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.
(n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
(n.) The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.
(n.) A flatulent disease of sheep.
(v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.
(v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.
(v. t.) To confound by a loud blast or din.
(v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
(v. i.) To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
(v. i.) To blow; to blow on a trumpet.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(2) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(3) However, the blasts formed mixed colonies consisting of erythroblasts, granulocytes, macrophages, and immature blasts when cultured in methylcellulose with PHA-leukocyte conditioned medium.
(4) A proportion of blasts from five of 10 cases of AML expressed receptors for IL-2 (IL-2R) when tested directly ex-vivo with monoclonal antibodies against the receptor.
(5) The patients were divided into two equal groups according to the degree of perivascular and paratrabecular infiltration: those with minimal (one to three layers of blasts and promyelocytes) and those with marked (four to eight layers of blasts and promyelocytes) infiltration.
(6) Sequential analyses of the serologic reactivity of cells from AMML patients undergoing chemotherapy corresponded with the clinical course of the patient, even though there was little correlation between the percentage of blast cells present and the per cent cytotoxicity with the antisera.
(7) Conversely, the expression in the more differentiated blast cells obtained from 10 of 11 AML patients classified as M1 and M2 were at levels similar to the levels in HL-60 cells.
(8) We concluded that patients with MDS with excess of blasts and blastic transformation may be treated with aggressive chemotherapy with low toxicity and high remission rate, similarly to de novo acute myeloid leukemia.
(9) "Everyone has been blasted by anonymous figures who crushed the economy.
(10) At the second admission, blasts were present in the peripheral blood, and later accounted for 49% of the total leukocyte count.
(11) Lymphocyte blast transformation, serum immunoglobulins, and circulating immune complexes were also evaluated.
(12) In the phase of blast crisis, the bone marrow demonstrated a significant rise of the portion of the G2 cells and of the mitotic index.
(13) Lymphocytes with low floating density lyse NK-sensitive target cells and leukemic B-lymphocytes, increase the lytic activity with respect to blasts of K-562 line under the effect of alpha-interferon.
(14) During tumor growth, a population of T cell blasts appears that may be involved with an immune response against the tumor.
(15) In the high-grade component, the blasts occurred in clusters or sheets, and often possessed plasmacytoid cytoplasm; glandular invasion was a rare event.
(16) The results showed that increasing age of the donors and the presence of anti-CMV antibodies are significantly associated with low proliferative responses of PBMC, whereas the HLA-B8 antigen and female donor sex were found to be associated with high blast cell formation after PWM stimulation.
(17) You can also blast individual eyeballs from their sockets, or – if you're particularly skilful – make their testicles explode like a pair of microwaved eggs.
(18) Fifteen injuries resulted from direct penetration of a vessel and three were concussion or blast injuries.
(19) A2HSGP did indeed inhibit blast transformation in these cell populations.
(20) Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people' Read more In the Harvard study, the researchers had 9,000 people in their dataset – enough that they were able to ensure they were really measuring the impact of a lack of health insurance.
Sock
Definition:
(n.) A plowshare.
(n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
(n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
(n.) A warm inner sole for a shoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) She's found what is her true vocation and she's working her socks off."
(2) City wear their customary home colours of light blue shirts, white shorts and white socks.
(3) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
(4) But people who don't, they'll pick that sock up from off the floor.
(5) He hasn't nicked stuff from you, been sick in your sock drawer, sworn at your mother or made a pass at your girlfriend.
(6) I wanted to do a real knock-your-socks-off interview for the FA, so I put together a PowerPoint which looked at every single detail,” he wrote in his autobiography.
(7) A database of fast MP and BP was compiled from intraoperative recordings collected from epicardial sock arrays in man.
(8) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
(9) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
(10) The city of free love has passed laws banning public nudity, which men get around with a carefully hung sock.
(11) I followed him to a room on a ßoor which I didn't know existed and he told me to take off my shoes and enter alone in my socks.
(12) Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills.
(13) Her feet, swollen by bad circulation, were clad only in socks as she heard the ruling delivered at the House of Lords.
(14) Our brothers, with their cool logic (despite their penchant for mismatched socks), and our ruthlessly honest best mates.
(15) After a hard-fought victory one freezing night last November the jubilant forward sprinted off the pitch and hurled his shirt, shorts, socks and boots into the crowd, Sun, the chairman, recalled.
(16) In no case did an accessory pathway fail to conduct following sock placement.
(17) They are wearing all blue, while the Socceroos are in their gold shirts, white socks and, thank goodness, green shorts.
(18) I put on a pair of jogging bottoms, an old fleece hoodie and some flip-flops over my socks.
(19) This material support involved allowing an acquaintance to stay in his apartment for two weeks – an acquaintance who later delivered raincoats and waterproof socks to al-Qaida.
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