Word Finder - blasting

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

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To make a loud noise.

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To shatter, as if by an explosion.

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To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).

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Blast right through it.

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To curse; to damn.

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Blast it! Foiled again.

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(sci-fi) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).

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Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.

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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.

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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.

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To blight or wither.

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A cold wind blasted the rose plants.

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To be blighted or withered.

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The bud blasted in the blossom.

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To blow, for example on a trumpet.

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

Dry ice blasting reduces downtime from days to hours.

Damian turned down the stereo blasting trance music and faced her, crossing his arms as she closed the door.

The manager professed to believe that shots might lawfully be fired at any time unless gas was observable at the actual time of blasting.

Playing games is not only the preserve of the younger generation, with seven per cent of the sample tackling tombs and blasting aliens!

Their disturbingly ordinary if morris knew blasting away in gosh they're quite.

Miss windjammer pageant the speakers blasting day press trip the pier where.

The speakers blasting and conservative rep as p p each day was.

For lighting only approved safety lamps should be used, and blasting operations should be performed with " Permitted " explosives only.

Some of it sounds a bit like The Stray Cats with a blasting sax... 15.

The literature review is focused on glass grit and copper slag, but the scope of the work includes other key blasting media.

It is still the commonest detonator, but it is now usually mixed with other substances; the British service uses for percussion caps 6 parts of fulminate, 6 of potassium chlorate and 4 of antimony sulphide, and for time fuses 4 parts of fulminate, 6 of potassium chlorate and 4 of antimony sulphide, the mixture being damped with a shellac varnish; for use in blasting, a home office order of 1897 prescribes a mixture of 4 parts of fulminate and 1 of potassium chlorate.

Even then, however, the liquid nature of the substance, though advantageous in one or two directions, constituted a serious obstacle to its safe transport and storage and to its efficient employment; it was therefore not until Nobel produced plastic solid preparations by mixing the liquid with porous substances, such as gunpowder, or carbon and sulphur, and finally kieselguhr in a fine state of division, capable of absorbing and retaining considerable quantities of it, that it could be employed as a blasting agent (see Explosives, Dyna Mite, Cordite).

The harbour of St George's has space enough to accommodate a vast fleet; yet, till deepened by blasting, the entrance was so narrow as to render it almost useless.

I picked up a tube of LashBlast (advertised on the packaging as "volume blasting mascara") in Black Brown.

Don't be surprised if you hear a dance friendly song with emotional graduation lyrics like Time of Your Life (Good Riddance) by Green Day blasting from the stereos by the end of prom night.

The demo mission involves you blasting your way through a plaza, trying to reach your teammates on the other side.

His narration, sometimes grim and sometimes raging, is a gritty contrast to the real satisfaction you feel after clearing Germans out of a town, or blasting away obstacles so your reinforcements can land safely.

Gauntlet Seven Sorrows is a hack n' slash, combo filled, magic blasting, role playing/adventure game.

The game is very easy to advance through, as a player may choose to adopt a "Hulk Smash" mentality throughout the majority of levels, blasting and smashing any and everything with little concern for life and irradiated limb.

Most of the games are shooter/action games like Defender where you are traveling over an alien landscape blasting enemies with your ship.

Resident Evil 4 is another great edition to the series of zombie blasting, horror-stricken mayhem.

A combination of Space Invaders and BrickBreaker, this alien blasting video game will keep you entertained for hours.

Samus was made famous in the Metroid games, dropping bombs and blasting away with the gun on her arm.

Some clear glass is treated using techniques such as sand blasting or acid etching to create a slighted roughened surface that makes the glass semi-opaque.

This finish is created by process called sand blasting, which is used to give it a little texture.

But, because your overall calorie burn increases, you actually burn more calories from fats than you do while in the zone-actually getting you closer to your belly fat blasting goal.

Vanyel helps Tylendel gain an illegal revenge for the death of his brother, but the plot goes awry, resulting in Tylendel's death and the sudden blasting open of all of Vanyel's own latent magical skills and abilities.

The opening scene in Back to the Future, with the large speakers blasting, is based on real incidents with Kim Burrafato in North Beach that the Coppola Rat Pack at Savoy Tivoli and Caffe Trieste would hear.

This way you won't run the risk of blasting your visitors with music the moment they open your website.

Darian moved away from the door and kept to the edge of the room, sensing he was only welcomed because he was in the unique position to defend everyone there if the Other started blasting people.

In soft material the excavation may be performed by mechanical excavators or " steam navvies," while in hard it may be necessary to resort to blasting.

A small charge of dry guncotton will, however, detonate the wet material, and this peculiarity is made use of in the employment of guncotton for blasting purposes.

The work of blasting out the rocks which at that spot projected in the bed of the river, begun in 1830, was continued down to the year 1887, so that now there are two navigable channels of sufficient depth for all vessels which ply up and down that part of the stream.

Where practicable steam shovels are employed, even when it is necessary to break up the material beforehand by blasting.

Sinking pumps, designed for use in shafts in process of sinking, are suspended by wire ropes so as to be raised before blasting and promptly lowered again to resume pumping.

To lessen the danger from blasting operations the use of special safety explosives is required in Great Britain and some European countries.

At Wheal Cock near St Just in Cornwall the protecting roof was so thin that holes bored for blasting more than once penetrated to the bed of the ocean, and wooden plugs were kept on hand to drive into such holes when this occurred.

The material of the bank being loosened by blasting and the cutting action of the water, crumbles into holes, and the superincumbent mass, often with large trees and stones, falls into the lower ground.

In driving levels it is necessary to cut grooves vertically parallel to the walls, a process known as shearing; but the most important operation is that known as holing or kirving, which consists in cutting a notch or groove in the floor of the seam to a depth of about 3 ft., measured back from the face, so as to leave the overhanging part unsupported, which then either falls of its own accord within a few hours, or is brought down either by driving wedges along the top, or by blasting.

These are then removed, and the coal is allowed to fall, wedges or blasting being employed when necessary.

Another kind of application of machinery to coal mining is that of Messrs Bidder & Jones, which is intended to replace the use of blasting for bringing down the coal.

In all British coal-mines, when gas in dangerous quantities has appeared within three months, and in all places that are dry and dusty, blasting is prohibited, except with Safety ex= c, „ permitted explosives, whose composition and pro perties have been examined at the testing station at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.

The archaeological commission of the Description de l'Egypte visited them in 1799, when the walls of many of the large tombs were still almost intact; in the first half of the 19th century (and to some extent later) an immense amount of destruction was caused by blasting for stone.

When blasting is resorted to, advantage is taken of the natural cuts or joints, as the rock is readily thrown or worked off these.

In the narrowest portion of this gorge, not far from Bellegarde at its lower end, there formerly existed the famous (described by Saussure in his Voyages dans les Alpes, chapter xvii.), where for a certain distance the river disappeared in a subterranean channel; but this natural phenomenon has been destroyed, partly by blasting, and partly by the diversion of the water for the use of the factories of Bellegarde.

A rich deposit of iron ore was discovered close to Kerch in 1895, and since then mining and blasting have been actively prosecuted.

The train whistle blasting repeatedly; Nick with his face to the window, calling for her.

The vamps around Bianca whirled, and he raised the hand cannons, blasting all four before they reached the door.

He slapped the White God on the arm and moved towards the two figures, holding his arms out to the side of his body to keep the vamps across the cemetery from blasting him.

You mean you'd start blasting away on the spur of the moment— in the heat of passion.