Blast

And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; / His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.

Their warm, thick under covering of fine wool protects them from the coldest blasts.

Many tons of iron were melted at a blast.

Blast was produced by bellows worked by four 'blowers', three of whom worked at a time while the fourth stood ready to replace one of the others.

Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.

Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.

My manager gave me a blast yesterday for coming in late.

P. S.—I gave the P. O. Department a blast in the papers about sending misdirected letters of mine back to the writers for reshipment, and got a blast in return, through a New York daily, from the New York postmaster.

1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts Large blasts are often used.

One blast upon his bugle horn / Were worth a thousand men.

the blast of triumph o'er thy grave

Then the captain sung out: ¶ "Stand away!" and the cannon let off such a blast right before me that it made me deef with the noise and pretty near blind with the smoke, and I judged I was gone.

[…] the microphone has been unostentatiously working out its own destiny here and abroad, mainly in America. Evolution seems to be most promising (in the elimination of "microphone blast" and background noises — common faults of the earlier types) in the direction of the electrostatic, or condenser, microphone, […]

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

Vertue preferd from fell deſtuctions blaſt,

We had a blast at the party last night.

an e-mail blast; a fax blast

blast and cruise

Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear.

Some kid is in his car blasting rap. You know, bass in the trunk and you can hear it 4 blocks away? I signal over to him and say "Hey, turn it up, I can't hear it." He turns around and says, "Shut Up Grandpa."

Blast right through it.

Blast it! Foiled again.

Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.

A Ricketts and Stuart Holden one-two around the box then created a decent chance for an almost instant equaliser - but Welsh full-back Ricketts blasted over when a calmer finish could have been rewarded.

They showed up blasting.

That's when we decided to blast him.

My manager suddenly blasted me yesterday for being a little late to work for five days in a row, because I was never getting myself up on time.

Mark Pritchard, a Tory member of Parliament, blasted the show for treating a somber subject as “a matter of fun.”

Oh Portius, is there not some choſen Curſe, Some hidden Thunder in the Stores of Heav’n, Red with uncommon Wrath, to blaſt the Man Who owes his Greatneſs to his Country’s Ruin?

Both Leo and myself rushed to her - she was stone dead - blasted into death by some mysterious electric agency or overwhelming will-force whereof the dread She had command.

A cold wind blasted the rose plants.

The bud blasted in the blossom.

Tell age it daily wasteth; tell honour how it alters; Tell beauty how she blasteth; tell fauour how it falters: And as they shall reply, giue euery one the lye.

blast and cruise

Now, where's my Labour membership card, so I can consider whether to tear it up? Blast, it's plastic...

Blasting nucleotide sequences is not always that easy, because there is more ambiguity to the nucleotide sequence, and good hits have to have a 70% homology over the whole sequence to be reliable, compared to 25% with proteins.

This program is also capable of BLASTing sequencing results and works with most automated sequencing formats, alleviating the need for conversion of PC-based files.