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Blast vs Implode - What's the difference?

blast | implode |

In intransitive terms the difference between blast and implode

is that blast is to make a loud noise while implode is to collapse or burst inward violently.

As verbs the difference between blast and implode

is that blast is to confound by a loud blast or din while implode is to collapse or burst inward violently.

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)
  • (senseid)A violent gust of wind.
  • * Thomson
  • And see where surly Winter passes off, / Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts'; / His ' blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.
  • 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:
  • 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.
  • 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=
  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=Blast' after ' blast , fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,
  • An explosive charge for blasting.
  • * Tomlinson
  • Large blasts are often used.
  • A loud, sudden sound.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • One blast upon his bugle horn / Were worth a thousand men.
  • * Bryant
  • the blast of triumph o'er thy grave
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
  • 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.
  • A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
  • * Bible, Job iv. 9
  • By the blast of God they perish.
  • * Shakespeare
  • virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast
  • (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
  • We had a blast at the party last night.
  • (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
  • an e-mail blast'''; a fax '''blast
  • A flatulent disease of sheep.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To confound by a loud blast or din.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear.
  • 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.
  • (sci-fi) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
  • Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.
  • (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 , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
  • 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.
  • To blight or wither.
  • A cold wind blasted the rose plants.
  • (obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
  • The bud blasted in the blossom.
  • (obsolete) To blow, as on a trumpet.
  • * Chaucer
  • Toke his blake trumpe faste / And gan to puffen and to blaste .
    Derived terms
    * blaster * blastworthy * ghetto blaster, ghettoblaster * sandblast

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Blast it; damn it.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
  • Derived terms
    * blast cell * blastocyte * blastoma

    Anagrams

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    implode

    English

    Verb

    (implod)
  • To collapse or burst inward violently.
  • (computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.
  • * 1992 , "Steve Tibbett", PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.'' (on newsgroup ''comp.compression )
  • I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work

    Antonyms

    * (collapse) explode * (compress data) explode