blast
noun
- suffix associated to metamorphism
- attack, usually with explosives, explosion (focus on physics/motion, not sound)
- make a loud noise
- The act of assigning blame harshly
- Have a good time
verb
- attack, usually with explosives, explosion (focus on physics/motion, not sound)
- make a loud noise
- assign blame harshly
- mode of motion
interjection
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Pronunciation: /blɑːst/ / /blæst/
intj
Etymology: From Middle English blasten, blesten, from Old English blǣstan (“to blow, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blēstijan, from Proto-Germanic *blēstijaną. Possibly related to Middle High German blesten (“to stand out, plop, splash”).
- Used to show anger or disappointment: damn
“Now, where's my Labour membership card, so I can consider whether to tear it up? Blast, it's plastic...”
name
Etymology: An acronym of Basic Local Alignment Search Tool.
- An algorithm which compares similarities between sequences of nucleotides in nucleic acids or of amino acids in proteins.
noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βλαστός (blastós, “germ or sprout”).
- An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
verb
Etymology: From BLAST (an acronym for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
- To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
“Blasting nucleotide sequences is not always that easy, because there is more ambiguity to the nucleotide sequence, and good hits have to have a 70% homology over the whole sequence to be reliable, compared to 25% with proteins.”