(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.
Wallop
Definition:
(v. i.) To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
(n.) A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.
(v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
(v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
(v. i.) To be slatternly.
(v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
(v. t.) To wrap up temporarily.
(v. t.) To throw or tumble over.
(n.) A thick piece of fat.
(n.) A blow.
Example Sentences:
(1) While that's going on, Nakazawa accidentally wallops Tulio upside the head.
(2) 20-odd seconds: Suarez goes for a loose ball down the inside-right channel and clatters into the back of Ferdinand, who in turn wallops Evra.
(3) Westminster is rarely a palace of pleasure, but Thursday brought the magnificent spectacle of Margaret Hodge walloping the big four accountancy firms for their role in helping companies deprive the Treasury of taxes everyone else has to pay.
(4) His family attended the Cygnus launch from Nasa's Wallops Flight Facility.
(5) Its launch early next year from Wallops Island, Virginia, is timed to coincide with the six-month mission of Italy's first female astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti.
(6) It appears the Berkshires there in western Massachusetts got walloped.
(7) He takes it down on his chest and wallops it past the distressed and totally stranded Souleymanou.
(8) And New Jersey got walloped by Hurricane Sandy, and instead of acting on climate, Governor Christie has doubled down by sticking his head in the sand.” The political logic of Christie’s hedging on vaccinations was not immediately clear.
(9) It left the Swans without their two main forward targets, but in the end it was their midfield that was on the receiving end of the biggest walloping in the 15.13 (103) to 7.9 (51) defeat.
(10) Two minutes later, Tadic provided another assist, wriggling into the box and feeding Victor Wanyama, who walloped in his side’s seventh goal.
(11) Giroud grabbed the ball and walloped it up into the stands in relief.
(12) Only a Conservative leader confident of a walloping great majority would dare challenge the privileges of the largely Conservative-voting old.
(13) City have been imperious at home this season, walloping much better sides than the Hammers, and Manchester United, and have scored 61 goals in 18 league matches at the Etihad.
(14) There’s not enough difference between Ed Miliband and David Cameron,” Sturgeon announced to cheers, seizing the absent prime minster and walloping Miliband around the head with his pinstriped legs.
(15) Rushing on to a long kick by Randolph, he left defenders in his wake before walloping the ball past Manuel Neuer and into the net.
(16) Or the 1987 final, when they came within 13 minutes of the trophy before being walloped by a quick one-two?
(17) An Air Force Minotaur V rocket provided the ride from Nasa's Wallops flight facility.
(18) 47 min: Asatiani plays a suicidal ball across the face of his own box; McFadden nearly latches onto it but Youngkeeper (it's easier to spell) does brilliantly to react, rushing out and walloping miles upfield.
(19) Ss either inside or outside of 2 houses in Wallops Station, Virginia, indicated on diagrams the direction of flyovers.
(20) Also: (5) Arsenal have been thrashed in their two other big matches at the Emirates this season, a 3-0 pasting by Chelsea and a 3-1 walloping by Manchester United, (6) Barcelona are better than Chelsea, (7) Barcelona are better than Manchester United, and (8) Henry might not get a sniff of action this evening anyway, rendering those four spurious omens totally worthless.