Salvo vs Blast - What's the difference?
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An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
(military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
By extension, any volley, as in an argument or debate.
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A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
(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.
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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
Salvo is a related term of blast.
As verbs the difference between salvo and blast
is that salvo is while blast is .salvo
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) salvo, ablative of salvus, the past participle of , either from salvo jure'' literally 'the right being reserved', or from ''salvo errore et omissone 'reserving error and omission'.Noun
(en noun)- They admit many salvos , cautions, and reservations. --Eikon Basilike.
- 2006
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Etymology 2
A 1719 alteration of salva'' (1591) "simultaneous discharge of guns," from (etyl) , imperative of salvere: "be in good health!," the usual Roman greeting, regarded as imperative of ''salvere "to be in good health,"Noun
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See also
* the SalvosAnagrams
* * English terms with multiple etymologies ----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 .