-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. |
Clean (superl.) Free from dirt or filth |
Clean (superl.) Free from that which is useless or injurious |
Clean (superl.) Free from awkwardness |
Clean (superl.) Free from errors and vulgarisms |
Clean (superl.) Free from restraint or neglect |
Clean (superl.) Free from moral defilement |
Clean (superl.) Free from ceremonial defilement. |
Clean (superl.) Free from that which is corrupting to the morals |
Clean (superl.) Well-proportioned |
Clean (adv.) Without limitation or remainder |
Clean (adv.) Without miscarriage |
Clean (a.) To render clean |
Clean-cut (a.) See Clear-cut. |
Clean-limbed (a.) With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs |
Clean-timbered (a.) Well-proportioned |
Hot blast () See under Blast. |
Steam (n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points |
Steam (n.) The mist formed by condensed vapor |
Steam (n.) Any exhalation. |
Steam (v. i.) To emit steam or vapor. |
Steam (v. i.) To rise in vapor |
Steam (v. i.) To move or travel by the agency of steam. |
Steam (v. i.) To generate steam |
Steam (v. t.) To exhale. |
Steam (v. t.) To expose to the action of steam |
Steam engine () An engine moved by steam. |
Vapor (n.) Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid. |
Vapor (n.) In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc. |
Vapor (n.) Wind |
Vapor (n.) Something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory |
Vapor (n.) An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy |
Vapor (n.) A medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor. |
Vapor (n.) To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam |
Vapor (n.) To emit vapor or fumes. |
Vapor (n.) To talk idly |
blast | a very long fly ball |
solo homer solo blast | a home run with no runners on base |
Turkish bath steam bath vapor bath vapour bath | you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower |
steam fitting | care (installation and maintenance) of equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating |
clean and jerk clean | a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead |
blast furnace | a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores, combustion is intensified by a blast of air |
boiler steam boiler | sealed vessel where water is converted to steam |
calliope steam organ | a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard |
clean bomb | an atom bomb leaving little or no radioactive contamination |
clean room white room | a room that is virtually free of dust or bacteria, used in laboratory work and in assembly or repair of precision equipment |
laminar flow clean room | a clean room free of all extraneous particles, used in fabricating microprocessors |
mercury-vapor lamp | ultraviolet lamp that emits a strong bluish light (rich in ultraviolet radiation) as electric current passes through mercury vapor |
sodium-vapor lamp sodium-vapour lamp | lamp in which an electric current passed through a tube of sodium vapor makes a yellow light, used is street lighting |
steam bath steam room vapor bath vapour bath | a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe, `vapour bath' is a British term |
steam chest | the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder |
steam engine | externalombustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder |
steam heat steam heating | a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators |
steam iron | a pressing iron that can emit steam |
steam line steam pipe | a pipe conducting steam |
steam locomotive | a locomotive powered by a steam engine |
steam shovel | a power shovel that is driven by steam |
steam turbine | turbine in which steam strikes blades and makes them turn |
steam whistle | a whistle in which the sound is produced by steam, usually attached to a steam boiler |
vapor lock vapour lock | a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internalombustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor) |
vapor density vapour density | the density of a gas relative to the density of hydrogen |
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 |
clean bill of health | an assurance that someone is healthy or something is in good condition, the doctor gave him a clean bill of health |
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 wave blast wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity, the explosion created a shock wave |
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 |
gust blast blow | a strong current of air, the tree was bent almost double by the gust |
vapor pressure vapour pressure | the pressure exerted by a vapor, often understood to mean saturated vapor pressure (the vapor pressure of a vapor in contact with its liquid form) |
vaporization vaporisation vapor vapour evaporation | the process of becoming a vapor |
blast trauma | injury caused the explosion of a bomb (especially in enclosed spaces) |
fresh start clean slate tabula rasa | an opportunity to start over without prejudice |
steam coal | coal suitable for use under steam boilers |
steam | water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere |
live steam | steam coming from a boiler at full pressure |
water vapor water vapour | water in a vaporous form diffused in the atmosphere but below boiling temperature |
vapor vapour | a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance |
cleanse clean | clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing, clean up before you see your grandparents, clean your fingernails before dinner |
clean up | make oneself clean, presentable or neat, Clean up before you go to the party |
clean pick | remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits, Clean the turkey |
clean | remove shells or husks from, clean grain before milling it |
scavenge clean | remove unwanted substances from |
blast | shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly |
tidy tidy up clean up neaten straighten straighten out square away | put (things or places) in order, Tidy up your room! |