-blast
() A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation |
Blast
(n.) A violent gust of wind. |
Blast
(n.) 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 |
Blast
(n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire |
Blast
(n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument |
Blast
(n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants |
Blast
(n.) The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc. |
Blast
(n.) A flatulent disease of sheep. |
Blast
(v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind |
Blast
(v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail |
Blast
(v. t.) To confound by a loud blast or din. |
Blast
(v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc. |
Blast
(v. i.) To be blighted or withered |
Blast
(v. i.) To blow |
Blast pipe
() The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast. |
Hot blast
() See under Blast. |
Shock
(n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen |
Shock
(n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces |
Shock
(v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks |
Shock
(v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks. |
Shock
(n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse |
Shock
(n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings |
Shock
(n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like. |
Shock
(n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body. |
Shock
(v.) To give a shock to |
Shock
(v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust |
Shock
(v. i.) To meet with a shock |
Shock
(n.) A dog with long hair or shag |
Shock
(n.) A thick mass of bushy hair |
Shock
(a.) Bushy |
Shock-head
(a.) Shock-headed. |
Shock-headed
(a.) Having a thick and bushy head of hair. |
Wave
(v. t.) See Waive. |
Wave
(v. i.) To play loosely |
Wave
(v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal. |
Wave
(v. i.) To fluctuate |
Wave
(v. t.) To move one way and the other |
Wave
(v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface |
Wave
(v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating |
Wave
(v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand |
Wave
(v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest |
Wave
(v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound |
Wave
(v. i.) Water |
Wave
(v. i.) Unevenness |
Wave
(v. i.) A waving or undulating motion |
Wave
(v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. |
Wave
(v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy |
Wave
(n.) Woe. |
Whirl-blast
(n.) A whirling blast or wind. |
| blast | a very long fly ball |
solo homer
solo blast | a home run with no runners on base |
overshoot
wave-off
go-around | an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt |
| wave | a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon, a wave of settlers, troops advancing in waves |
shock therapy
shock treatment | treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions |
insulin shock
insulin shock therapy
insulin shock treatment | the administration of sufficient insulin to induce convulsions and coma |
metrazol shock
metrazol shock therapy
metrazol shock treatment | the administration of sufficient Metrazol to induce convulsions and coma |
electric shock
electrical shock
shock | a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body, subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response, electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks |
| electric shock | the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture, they used cattle prods to administer electric shocks |
| shock impact | the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat, the armies met in the shock of battle |
| blast furnace | a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores, combustion is intensified by a blast of air |
| full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
shock absorber
shock
cushion | a mechanical damper, absorbs energy of sudden impulses, the old car needed a new set of shocks |
waveguide
wave guide | a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves, used in radar |
duality
wave-particle duality | (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory |
| wave | a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair |
| finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
permanent wave
permanent
perm | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals |
| culture shock | a condition of disorientation affecting someone who is suddenly exposed to an unfamiliar culture or way of life or set of attitudes |
wave theory
undulatory theory
wave theory of light | (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as waves |
| wave mechanics | the modern form of quantum theory, an extension of quantum mechanics based on Schrodinger's equation, atomic events are explained as interactions between particle waves |
Schrodinger equation
Schrodinger wave equation | the fundamental equation of wave mechanics |
| wave equation | a differential equation that describes the passage of harmonic waves through a medium |
fire
attack
flak
flack
blast | intense adverse criticism, Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party, the government has come under attack, don't give me any flak |
wave waving
wafture | the act of signaling by a movement of the hand |
good time
blast | a highly pleasurable or exciting experience, we had a good time at the party, celebrating after the game was a blast |
| shock blow | an unpleasant or disappointing surprise, it came as a shock to learn that he was injured |
| crime wave | a sudden rise in the crime rate |
jolt
jar
jounce
shock | a sudden jarring impact, the door closed with a jolt, all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers |
gravity wave
gravitation wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light |
| sine wave | a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve |
wave
undulation | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth |
soliton
soliton wave
solitary wave | (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance, does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate, soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure |
standing wave
stationary wave | a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time |
traveling wave
travelling wave | a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave |
sound wave
acoustic wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound |
| air wave | a sound wave that is transmitted via air |
wave form
waveform
wave shape | the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time |
shock wave
blast wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity, the explosion created a shock wave |
swell
crestless wave | the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea |
| tidal wave | a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun |
| tidal wave | an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide |
| tidal wave | an overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon, a tidal wave of nausea, the flood of letters hit him with the force of a tidal wave, a tidal wave of crime |
roller
roll rolling wave | a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore |
| wave moving ridge | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) |
| wave | something that rises rapidly, a wave of emotion swept over him, there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed, a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right |
bang
clap
eruption blast bam | a sudden very loud noise |
| blast | an explosion (as of dynamite) |
| bomb blast | the explosion of a bomb |
backblast
back-blast | backfire from a recoilless weapon |