Past vs Blast - What's the difference?
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The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
* D. Webster
* Trench
(grammar) The past tense.
Having already happened; in the past; finished.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 538:
* 2009 , , Glencoe , Amberley 2009, p. 20:
Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
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(grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
beyond in place, quantity or time
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(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.
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* 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
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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
As nouns the difference between past and blast
is that past is the period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future while blast is (violent gust of wind)A violent gust of wind.As an adjective past
is having already happened; in the past; finished.As an adverb past
is in a direction that passes.As a preposition past
is beyond in place, quantity or time.As a verb blast is
to confound by a loud blast or din.As an interjection blast is
blast it; damn it.past
English
(wikipedia past)Noun
(en noun)- a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past
- The past , at least, is secure.
- The present is only intelligible in the light of the past , often a very remote past indeed.
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "past") * blast from the past * in the past * past anterior * past continuous * past historic * past participle * past perfect * past progressive * past simple * past tense * simple pastSee also
* preteriteAdjective
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- That had been, what, three years past ?
- Some four decades past , as a boy, I had a chance encounter and conversation with the late W.A. Poucher [...].
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Preposition
(English prepositions)- the room past mine
- count past twenty
- past midnight
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Usage notes
* The preposition past is used to tell the time. The time 5:05 is said as five past five. 5:10 as ten past five. 5:15 as quarter past five. 5:20 as twenty past five. 5:25 as twenty-five past five. 5:30 as half past five. If we are aware of the approximate time, we can just use e.g. five past, ten past etc. See the example below. *: I thought it was about six o'clock, but it was actually ten past . * Compare with to (five to, ten to, quarter to, twenty to, twenty-five to) * See also: o'clockStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----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 .
