BLASTS
8
Scrabble
10
WWF
B(3) L(1) A(1) S(1) T(1) S(1)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
noun
- 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“many tons of iron were melted at a blast”
- 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.
verb
- 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).“Blast right through it.”
- To curse; to damn.“Blast it! Foiled again.”
noun
- An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
verb
- To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
Source: Wiktionary
Hooks
Front hooks: O-BLASTS
