Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A soft, amorphous mass.
- noun A daub, as of color.
- transitive verb To splash or daub with blobs; splotch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small globe of liquid; a dewdrop; a blister; a bubble; a small lump, splotch, or daub.
- noun The bag of a honey-bee.
- noun The under lip.
- noun A cottoid fish, Uranidea richardsoni, a kind of miller's-thumb.
- noun In cricket, no score; zero; a duck's-egg (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small fresh-water fish (
Uranidea Richardsoni ); the miller's thumb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A shapeless or
amorphous mass; avague shape oramount , especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; aclump ,group orcollection that lacks definite shape. - noun dialect A
bubble , ableb . - noun A small
freshwater fish (Uranidea richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an indistinct shapeless form
- verb make a spot or mark onto
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Most inept alien The "blob" - a giant amoeba which, in the 1953 movie, terrorises the small community of Downington PA.
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I have something – a blob of personality with a name attached to it – and i spend the book discovering what that blob is and what it isn’t.
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If one assumes that the black blob is the white blob’s shadow (which is far from conclusive) I can see how you can estimate its altitude, but where did they pull that speed measurement from?
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The blob is the size of our own Milky Way galaxy and it is 650 million light years away.
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Amsterdam airport already uses such so-called blob machines, which show an outline of the body.
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And if the blob is a character, it gets identified with a colour and stays like that.
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Beside the blob is a glass goblet, one of the products of her work with Avalari, an apprentice glassblower before his impression into the Hamorian fleet.
The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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We begin with getting a BlobStream that we can use to read the blob, which is 16MB in size.
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The blob is the size of our own Milky Way galaxy and it is 650 million light years away.
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The blob is the size of our own Milky Way galaxy and it is 650 million light years away.
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