Blast vs Brast - What's the difference?
blast | brast |
(senseid)A violent gust of wind.
* Thomson
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.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 146:
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.
An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
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, chapter=1 An explosive charge for blasting.
* Tomlinson
A loud, sudden sound.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Bryant
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
* Bible, Job iv. 9
* Shakespeare
(figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
(marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
A flatulent disease of sheep.
To confound by a loud blast or din.
* Shakespeare
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).
To curse; to damn.
(sci-fi) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
(soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
* {{quote-news, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
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To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
To blight or wither.
(obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
(obsolete) To blow, as on a trumpet.
* Chaucer
(archaic) (burst)
An instance of, or the act of bursting .
A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
To break from internal pressure.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To cause to break from internal pressure.
(obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
* Shakespeare
* Fairfax
To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
* 1913 , (Mariano Azuela), The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
To produce as an effect of bursting.
As verbs the difference between blast and brast
is that blast is to confound by a loud blast or din while brast is simple past of burst.As a noun blast
is (violent gust of wind)A violent gust of wind.As an interjection blast
is blast it; damn it.blast
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) from (etyl) . More at blow.Noun
(en noun)- And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts'; / His ' blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.
- 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.
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- 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.
- By the blast of God they perish.
- virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast
- We had a blast at the party last night.
- an e-mail blast'''; a fax '''blast
Verb
(en verb)- Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear.
- Blast right through it.
- Blast it! Foiled again.
- Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.
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- 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.
- A cold wind blasted the rose plants.
- The bud blasted in the blossom.
- Toke his blake trumpe faste / And gan to puffen and to blaste .
Derived terms
* blaster * blastworthy * ghetto blaster, ghettoblaster * sandblastEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Derived terms
* blast cell * blastocyte * blastomaAnagrams
* ----brast
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----burst
English
(wikipedia burst)Noun
(en noun)- The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
Derived terms
* cloudburstVerb
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- You will not pay for the glasses you have burst ?
- He burst his lance against the sand below.
- He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
- Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
- to burst a hole through the wall