blast

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No, but it's a blast, and many of the upsides would be hard to replicate with Gmail.

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Quick take

a very long fly ball

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of blast gathered in one view.

noun

a very long fly ball

noun

a sudden very loud noise

noun

a strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for blast.

noun

a very long fly ball

noun

a sudden very loud noise

noun

a strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust"

noun

an explosion (as of dynamite)

noun

a highly pleasurable or exciting experience; "we had a good time at the party"; "celebrating after the game was a blast"

noun

intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"

verb

make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"

verb

hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"

verb

use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"

verb

apply a draft or strong wind to to; "the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us"

verb

create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain"

verb

make with or as if with an explosion; "blast a tunnel through the Alps"

verb

fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away"

verb

criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"

verb

shatter as if by explosion

verb

shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly

Example sentences

No, but it's a blast, and many of the upsides would be hard to replicate with Gmail.

If not, we'll withdraw the product and fire another random shotgun blast.

I'm having a blast and interpreting all the flak as a sign I must be doing something right...

"On the other side of the blast doors, no one inside the bunker noticed anything unusual.

Was a blast though a bit of a blur - ended up in SF as the whole thing worked itself into a nasty hangover.

We should try and find better diagnoses and treatments, but it makes no sense to blast people by telling them their condition "doesn't exist.

""It must not have occurred to the officers that the blast doors were designed to withstand a 20 megaton nuclear explosion from close range.

Civilization pretty much peaked when we figured out how to blast text from the other side of the planet to your screen in 150-200 milliseconds.

A bomb blast engineer to model the effects of various bomb attack scenarios on the cladding and structure.

There used to be 4 TV stations that the whole country watched, so you could spend enough money to blast your message into the head of every American.

I like open source and I'm sure some fanatics will be tempted to blast me for calling for more closed-source software on Linux, but that's precisely what Newell is doing.

Due to the massive lakes that surround us, we frequently get a blast of warm, wet air that causes rain, and of course that warm wet air is being pushed off the lake by a cold front, causing high winds and sub-freezing temps.

Instead of directly illuminating the spherical target with a bunch of lasers, you blast the inner surface of a gold cylinder with the shell at the center of the cylinder.

Here's a shotgun blast of reasons:* NSS has more institutional constraints; random people in Germany can't, as a general rule, add support for new TLS extensions to it.* NSS has a clearer identity, as the TLS core for Firefox and Chromium.

Why strive to maintain an empire of property that will crumble to dust when the degenerations of age catch up with you when you could be that fit-looking guy having a blast swimming in the breakers every other Sunday for as long as you like?Wealth is exactly time, and here we are, bordering the era of biotechnology for the repair of aging.