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A violent gust of wind.

A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.

A hit from a pipe.

The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace

Example: many tons of iron were melted at a blast

To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.

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).

Example: Blast right through it.

(chiefly British) To show displeasure; damn

An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).

To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).