blasts

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of blast.

   The demolition crew set off three controlled blasts before noon.

   Sudden blasts of wind rattled the windows all night.

   Note

   Only the countable uses of blast take this plural: separate gusts, separate explosions, separate hits from a pipe. When the word names a continuous stream, such as the air driven through a furnace or the draft an engine's exhaust creates, it usually stays singular as a mass noun. The same spelling also serves the present-tense verb, so in a headline like "Crew blasts rock" only the sentence tells you which one you are reading.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of blast.

   The factory whistle blasts twice at the end of each shift.

   He blasts the old furniture with a power washer before repainting it.

   Note

   Both halves of the verb meet in this form. Without an object, something simply makes a loud noise: the horn blasts. With one, it acts on a target. A speaker blasts music, a crew blasts a hole in the rock, an old oath blasts an enemy. Check for an object first, and the meaning usually follows. The spelling is shared with the plural noun.

   The horn blasts as the train leaves the tunnel.

   Every summer the neighbor blasts music from his porch.

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