What's the difference between blaster and bluster?

Blaster


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s a pretty big difference.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Xbox One S is smaller than the original, can be stored vertically or horizontally and has features like an IR blaster for a remote control.
  • (2) Just when DID our Frankie-Boy last succeed at such a master-blaster in an England Shirt?
  • (3) AMC says ticket holders must avoid wearing masks or face paint, while Cinemark has banned lightsabers and blasters, and Bow Tie has placed a restriction on Jedi-style cloaks.
  • (4) Han definitely shoots first (and asks questions later) Lucas and fans have debated for decades whether the sardonic space scoundrel was originally intended to shoot bounty hunter Greedo only after the alien fired his blaster first in the Mos Eisley Cantina in 1977’s saga opener A New Hope, but Abrams clearly has no such qualms about showing the elder Solo as a quick-on-the-draw kind of guy.
  • (5) James, a former Liverpool and England goalkeeper, is the player-manager of the Kerala Blasters side in the Indian Premier League and has been a regular pundit on television.
  • (6) Based on the German Mauser C96 handgun, Solo's modified "DL-44" blaster was used in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's Return of the Jedi.
  • (7) A blaster used by Harrison Ford's Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy is to go on sale for at least $200,000 via an online auction.
  • (8) The air-abrasive blaster has become an indispensable tool in the prosthodontic laboratory.
  • (9) This article describes a method for making a relatively small, fully functional shell blaster for less than one hundred dollars.
  • (10) We read his book, Kill Bin Laden, and made an inquiry on his interest and availability.” The result is that every gun, vehicle and aircraft in the game has a basis in current weapons research – whether that’s the Breacher pump action directed energy shotgun or the XS1 Vulcan, effectively an airborne laser blaster.
  • (11) The top 12 list in full Doggie Doo, John Adams, RRP £22.99 Fijit Friends, Mattel, RRP £54.99 Fireman Sam Pontypandy Rescue Set, Character, RRP £29.99 Kidizoom Twist, VTech, RRP £49.99 LeapPad Explorer, Leapfrog Toys, RRP £79.99 Lets Rock Elmo, Hasbro, RRP £69.99 Milky the Bunny, Flair, RRP £59.99 Monster High Lagoona's Hydration Station, Mattel, RRP £39.99 Moshling Tree House, Vivid, RRP £18.99 Nerf Vortex Nitron Blaster, Hasbro, RRP £44.99 Ninjago Fire Temple, Lego, RRP £91.99 Star Wars Ultimate Force Tech Lightsaber Assortment, Hasbro, RRP £39.99
  • (12) The blaster's guide price of $200,000 to $300,000 (£121,890 to £182,835) compares favourably with the cost of a lightsabre used by Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker in Star Wars.
  • (13) "My memories of WC2006 are of countless speculative attempts by Lampard and Ballack to greedily try a solo master-blaster into the net," recalls Laurence Welford.
  • (14) Incidence of multiple myeloma was significantly increased for a number of occupational groups such as farmers, smelter and metallurgy workers, and miners-quarrymen-rock blasters.
  • (15) With the purpose of determine the type of etch solution that produce the best amount of micropores in standed porcelain laminates veneers we can conclude that: to the internal etched of the standard porcelain laminates veneer, the utilization of fluorhidric acid is the most convenient, also is necessary the previons stand blaster with aluminum oxide of 25 um to increase the retentive capacity over the etch surface.
  • (16) The "dream toys" chosen by the Toy Retailers Association (TRA) also include favourites such as Fireman Sam, Elmo and a Nerf gun – the Vortex Nitron Blaster.
  • (17) What they have done as soon as the deal was implemented is to employ an individual with a reputation for being a ‘union blaster’.
  • (18) "This non-firing blaster was created for The Empire Strikes Back and was also used in Return of the Jedi," reads the lot description.
  • (19) Click here to view Ford and Chewbacca's confrontation on Jimmy Kimmel Live A septuagenarian Solo might not be quite as quick with a blaster these days, but the reaction to rumours of Ford's potential involvement in the new Disney take on the long-running space opera has been universally positive.
  • (20) As blaster fire explodes in green and red, you can see the reflection.

Bluster


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
  • (v. i.) To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.
  • (v. t.) To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
  • (n.) Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
  • (n.) Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) North Korea's blustering defiance at the annual US-South Korean exercises masks just a little fear that they could easily be turned into an all-out attack, and seems to work on the principle that the more you shout, the safer you will be.
  • (2) For all the bluster from Coalition MPs, farming communities will lose out.
  • (3) Ed Balls's bluster is confused and hypocritical when the reality is he'd do it all again," Fallon said.
  • (4) The curse of playing Ari Gold is that Jeremy Piven may have to spend the rest of his life trying to convince the world he is not a rage-fuelled blustering asshole.
  • (5) At which point restraint becomes as powerful as the Seeds' ravenous beer-hall bluster; a ten-minute Stagger Lee is a masterclass in tension and drama, Cave balancing precariously on the crowd barrier with audience members holding him up by the boot-heel as he leans out to sing his tale of a deviant killer directly into the eyes of a hypnotised girl in white hoisted on someone's shoulders.
  • (6) Cameron added that recent warnings from banks such as Lloyds and RBS, and from firms such as BP and Shell proved that the economic and financial risks of independence were not bluff and bluster or bullying.
  • (7) A steady rise in the yes vote in recent opinion polls also established that voters did not buy "the bluff and bluster" of those opposed to independence.
  • (8) He has a pretty easy ride if he’s prepared but if he tries to bluster it could hurt him,” Mann said.
  • (9) Terre'Blanche's credibility as a political leader collapsed after the anti-black threats voiced by the extreme white right proved to be little more than bluster.
  • (10) But for all Clegg's bluster, he's not setting tough enough tests for the changes the prime minister must make to his NHS plans.
  • (11) This is nothing but bluster and hot air with precisely nothing achieved.
  • (12) The book has action, but it also has a point; it has pathos, where the film is all comic-action bluster.
  • (13) Besides the election of Trump, with all his attendant nationalist bluster and populist economic and trade pronouncements, Brexit has seen the UK turn its back on Europe on the back of economic and immigration concerns, and closer to home, the 2016 federal election culminated in the resurgence of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party.
  • (14) While many fiscal conservatives view Huckabee warily, he has a solid social conservative thread and a folksy charm that would pair well with Trump’s big city bluster.
  • (15) Underneath all the showbiz bluster, he was an old softie.
  • (16) From all accounts, he was a bully, a manipulator, and a blustering, pessimistic, emotionally dishonest man.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton criticizes the ‘bluster and bigotry’ of the Republican campaign Before Tuesday’s elections, Clinton was ahead of Sanders by 673 to 477 pledged delegates and – with the vast majority of super delegates too – was nearly halfway to securing the 2,383 needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.
  • (18) On the other hand, if Iran is dragging its feet and compliance problems have arisen, that would make it much easier for a new president to walk away from the deal.” Einhorn also expressed doubts that a Republican president, for all of the bluster among the current crop of candidates, would actually turn his back on an agreement if it appeared to be working.
  • (19) I think I have made a lot of sacrifices,” he blustered.
  • (20) In the past, Zevon has occasionally been guilty of LA sludge-rock bluster, but these songs flash back to the rough simplicity of his original inspiration, Bob Dylan.