blasting

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Blasting means making a loud noise, usually with explosives or special equipment. It's often used for digging holes or breaking up rocks.

When people talk about blasting, they usually mean using heavy machinery to break through hard surfaces. For example, if you're watching a construction site on TV, you might see them use blasting to dig tunnels or make way for new buildings. They also use blasting in mines and quarries to extract minerals and stones from the ground. Sometimes, they even blast rocks apart to create roads or highways. The sound of blasting can be very loud, so people usually wear protective gear when working with it.

How common is "blasting"?

Word blasting is considered rare in modern English.
It has a balanced usage among all categories: speech, fiction, newspapers and academic texts.
Definitions

verb

  • To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.

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verb

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