Blaster vs. Blister
Blasternoun
Anything that, or anyone who blasts.
‘infrared blaster’;
Blisternoun
A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
Blasternoun
A device to detonate an explosive, often consisting of a box with a handle to be pressed down.
Blisternoun
A swelling on a plant.
Blasternoun
(science fiction) An unspecified powerful hand weapon, usually one that fires an energy pulse or beam.
Blisternoun
(medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
Blasternoun
A sand wedge.
Blisternoun
A bubble, as on a painted surface.
Blasternoun
One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.
Blisternoun
(roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
Blasternoun
a workman employed to blast with explosives
Blisternoun
A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
‘blister card’; ‘blister pack’;
Blisternoun
a cause of annoyance
Blisterverb
(transitive) To raise blisters on.
‘a chemical agent that blisters the skin’;
Blisterverb
(intransitive) To have a blister form.
Blisterverb
(transitive) To criticise severely.
Blisterverb
(intransitive) To break out in blisters.
Blisternoun
A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.
‘And painful blisters swelled my tender hands.’;
Blisternoun
Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.
Blisternoun
A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.
Blisterverb
To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.
‘Let my tongue blister.’;
Blisterverb
To raise a blister or blisters upon.
‘My hands were blistered.’;
Blisterverb
To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.
‘This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue.’;
Blisternoun
(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
Blisterverb
get blistered;
‘Her feet blistered during the long hike’;
Blisterverb
subject to harsh criticism;
‘The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday’; ‘the professor scaled the students’; ‘your invectives scorched the community’;
Blisterverb
cause blisters to from on;
‘the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet’;
Blister
A blister is a small pocket of body fluid (lymph, serum, plasma, blood, or pus) within the upper layers of the skin, usually caused by forceful rubbing (friction), burning, freezing, chemical exposure or infection. Most blisters are filled with a clear fluid, either serum or plasma.
