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Blast vs. Hammer — What's the Difference?

Blast vs. Hammer — What's the Difference?

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Blast

A destructive wave of highly compressed air spreading outwards from an explosion
They were thrown backwards by the blast

Hammer

A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be, for example, to drive nails into wood, to shape metal (as with a forge), or to crush rock.

Blast

A strong gust of wind or air
The icy blast hit them

Hammer

A hand tool consisting of a handle with a head of metal or other heavy rigid material that is attached at a right angle, used for striking or pounding.

Blast

A single loud note of a horn, whistle, or similar
A blast of the ship's siren
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Hammer

The part of a gunlock that hits the primer or firing pin or explodes the percussion cap and causes the gun to fire.

Blast

A severe reprimand
I braced myself for the inevitable blast

Hammer

(Music) One of the padded wooden pieces of a piano that strikes the strings.

Blast

An enjoyable experience or lively party
It could turn out to be a real blast

Hammer

A part of an apparatus that strikes a gong or bell, as in a clock.

Blast

Blow up or break apart (something solid) with explosives
The school was blasted by an explosion

Hammer

(Anatomy) See malleus.

Blast

Produce or cause to produce loud continuous music or other noise
Music blasted out at full volume
An impatient motorist blasted his horn

Hammer

(Sports) A metal ball weighing 16 pounds (7.2 kilograms) and having a long wire or wooden handle by which it is thrown for distance in track-and-field competition.

Blast

Kick or strike (a ball) hard
The striker blasted the free kick into the net

Hammer

A small mallet used by auctioneers.

Blast

Criticize fiercely
The school was blasted by government inspectors

Hammer

To hit, especially repeatedly, with a hammer; pound.

Blast

(of a wind or other natural force) wither, shrivel, or blight (a plant)
Corn blasted before it be grown up

Hammer

To strike forcefully and repeatedly
Hooves hammering the ground.

Blast

Expressing annoyance
‘Blast! The car won't start!’

Hammer

To assault with military force
Hammered the position with artillery shells.

Blast

A very strong gust of wind or air.

Hammer

To beat into a shape with a hammer or similar tool
Hammered the metal into a goblet.

Blast

The effect of such a gust.

Hammer

To accomplish or produce with difficulty or effort. Often used with out
Hammer out an agreement.

Blast

A forcible stream of air, gas, or steam from an opening, especially one in a blast furnace to aid combustion.

Hammer

To put together, fasten, or seal, particularly with nails, by hammering.

Blast

A sudden loud sound, especially one produced by a stream of forced air
A piercing blast from the steam whistle.

Hammer

To force upon (someone) by constant repetition
Hammered the information into the students' heads.

Blast

The act of producing such a sound
Gave a blast on his trumpet.

Hammer

To cause harm, loss, or difficulty to (someone), especially repeatedly
Investors hammered in the bear market.

Blast

A violent explosion, as of dynamite or a bomb.

Hammer

To defeat soundly
Got hammered in the playoffs.

Blast

The violent effect of such an explosion, consisting of a wave of increased atmospheric pressure followed immediately by a wave of decreased pressure.

Hammer

To attack verbally
A politician hammered in the press.

Blast

An explosive charge.

Hammer

To deal repeated blows with or as if with a hammer; pummel
"Wind hammered at us violently in gusts" (Thor Heyerdahl).

Blast

(Botany) Any of several plant diseases of diverse causes, resulting in sudden death of buds, flowers, foliage, or young fruits.

Hammer

To undergo beating in the manner of a hammer
My pulse hammered.

Blast

A destructive or damaging influence.

Hammer

(Informal) To keep at something continuously. Often used with away
Hammered away at the problem.

Blast

A powerful hit, blow, or shot.

Hammer

A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together

Blast

A violent verbal assault or outburst
The candidate leveled a blast at her opponent.

Hammer

The act of using a hammer to hit something.
The nail is too loose—give it a hammer.

Blast

(Slang) A highly exciting or pleasurable experience or event, such as a big party.

Hammer

(firearms) A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.

Blast

To knock down or shatter by explosion; smash.

Hammer

(anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.

Blast

To play or sound loudly
The amplifiers blasted the music.

Hammer

(music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
The sound the piano makes comes from the hammers striking the strings

Blast

To cause to move with great force; hurl
The volcanic eruption blasted rock far and wide.

Hammer

(sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.

Blast

To make or open by explosion
Blast a tunnel through the mountains.

Hammer

(curling) The last stone in an end.

Blast

To shoot or destroy by shooting
Fighter jets trying to blast each other out of the sky.

Hammer

(frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.

Blast

(Sports) To hit, kick, or shoot (a ball or puck) with great force.

Hammer

Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.

Blast

To have a harmful or destructive effect on
A loss that blasted our hopes of making the playoffs.

Hammer

One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.

Blast

To criticize or attack vigorously
Blasted the mayor for hypocrisy.

Hammer

(journalism) hammer headline

Blast

To cause to shrivel, wither, or mature imperfectly by blast or blight
Crops that were blasted by frost.

Hammer

(motor racing) The accelerator pedal.

Blast

To use or detonate explosives.

Hammer

To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

Blast

To emit a loud, intense sound; blare
Speakers blasting at full volume.

Hammer

To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

Blast

To discharge a weapon, especially repeatedly; shoot
Blasted away at the target.

Hammer

(figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.

Blast

To attack someone or something verbally; criticize.

Hammer

To hit particularly hard.

Blast

To move with great speed or power
A motorcycle blasting down the road.

Hammer

To ride very fast.

Blast

(Electronics) To distort sound recording or transmission by overloading a microphone or loudspeaker.

Hammer

(intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.

Blast

To wither or shrivel or mature imperfectly.

Hammer

To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
We hammered them 5-0!

Blast

A violent gust of wind.

Hammer

To make high demands on (a system or service).

Blast

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

Hammer

To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.

Blast

A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.

Hammer

To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).

Blast

The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
Many tons of iron were melted at a blast

Hammer

To have hard sex with.
Danielle hammered Mary til she came.

Blast

The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.

Hammer

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
With busy hammers closing rivets up.

Blast

An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
Arc blast

Hammer

Something which in form or action resembles the common hammer
He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the "massive iron hammers" of the whole earth.

Blast

An explosive charge for blasting.

Hammer

A spherical weight attached to a flexible handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.

Blast

A loud, sudden sound.

Hammer

To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron.

Blast

A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.

Hammer

To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

Blast

A good time; an enjoyable moment.
We had a blast at the party last night.

Hammer

To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor; - usually with out.
Who was hammering out a penny dialogue.

Blast

(marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
An e-mail blast; a fax blast

Hammer

To be busy forming anything; to labor hard as if shaping something with a hammer.
Whereon this month I have been hammering.

Blast

A flatulent disease of sheep.

Hammer

To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively.
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

Blast

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

Hammer

The part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled

Blast

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

Hammer

A hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking

Blast

(intransitive) To make a loud noise.

Hammer

An athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible

Blast

(transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.

Hammer

The ossicle attached to the eardrum

Blast

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

Hammer

A heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw

Blast

(transitive) To curse; to damn.
Blast it! Foiled again.

Hammer

A striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate

Blast

To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.

Hammer

A power tool for drilling rocks

Blast

(soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.

Hammer

The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows);
The sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard
The pounding of feet on the hallway

Blast

To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
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.

Hammer

Beat with or as if with a hammer;
Hammer the metal flat

Blast

(transitive) To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.

Hammer

Create by hammering;
Hammer the silver into a bowl
Forge a pair of tongues

Blast

(transitive) To blight or wither.
A cold wind blasted the rose plants.

Blast

To be blighted or withered.
The bud blasted in the blossom.

Blast

To blow, for example on a trumpet.

Blast

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

Blast

To show displeasure or disappointment: damn

Blast

A violent gust of wind.
And see where surly Winter passes off,Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts;His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill.

Blast

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; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.

Blast

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; also, any draught produced by the blast.

Blast

The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.
One blast upon his bugle hornWere worth a thousand men.
The blast of triumph o'er thy grave.

Blast

A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
By the blast of God they perish.
Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast.

Blast

The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.

Blast

A flatulent disease of sheep.

Blast

To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.
Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind.

Blast

Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.
I'll cross it, though it blast me.
Blasted with excess of light.

Blast

To confound by a loud blast or din.
Trumpeters,With brazen din blast you the city's ear.

Blast

To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.

Blast

To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.

Blast

To blow; to blow on a trumpet.
Toke his blake trumpe fasteAnd gan to puffen and to blaste.

Blast

A long and hard-hit fly ball

Blast

A sudden very loud noise

Blast

A strong current of air;
The tree was bent almost double by the gust

Blast

An explosion (as of dynamite)

Blast

A highly pleasurable or exciting experience;
We had a good time at the party
Celebrating after the game was a blast

Blast

Intense adverse criticism;
Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party
The government has come under attack
Don't give me any flak

Blast

Make a strident sound;
She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone

Blast

Hit hard;
He smashed a 3-run homer

Blast

Use explosives on;
The enemy has been shelling us all day

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