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blob¹
- /blɒb/ UK
- /blɑb/ US
Sounds like BLOB · Rhymes with -ɒb
Where it comes from
From Middle English *blob (attested in blobby). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber.
noun blobs
- A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape. Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment.
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The partially inflated air bag used as a trampoline in the sport of blobbing.
Similar: water trampoline
- A score of zero. A gentleman named W. Shakespeare scored a blob in the Worcestershire v. Lancashire match. We understand that he got out because the ball pitched on a "damned spot."
- A small freshwater fish, of the species Cottus bairdii; the miller's thumb.
- A bright yellow acellular slime mold, of the species Physarum polycephalum.
- A large cloud of gas.
- Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob, a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
- One who is a morbidly obese.
- A bubble; a bleb.
verb blobs · blobbing · blobbed
- To splash in the form of a [Term?] or blobs. Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focused the microscope.
- To drop a [Term?] or blobs onto; to cover with blobs. She was beating something in a pail, beating it with her hands; her arms were blobbed with pink froth to the elbows.
- To fall in the form of a [Term?] or blobs. Caroline began to separate eggs, cracking them into unbelievably even halves, sliding the gold, round and elastic, from shell to shell, whilst the white hung, heavy, translucent, in thick sheets, and blobbed suddenly into her basin.
- To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
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To catch eels by means of worms strung on a thread.
[…] where he had surreptitiously tickled small trout, or openly "blobbed" for eels with worms threaded on to darning wool when the rains came, […]
Similar: bob
- To spill sauce on oneself while eating.
blob²
- /blɒb/ UK
- /blɑb/ US
Sounds like BLOB · Rhymes with -ɒb
Where it comes from
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
noun blobs
- Alternative letter-case form of BLOB: acronym of binary large object.
BLOB³
Where it comes from
Formed as a backronym. See Object storage#Origins.
noun BLOBs · blob
- Acronym of binary large object I've added a BLOB so that we can store pictures.
Blob⁴
proper noun the Blob
- The section of the elite class in Washington D.C. who have moved from political or regulatory work to lobbying firms or think tanks, especially in foreign policy or on the behalf of corporations.
- The civil service and other public bodies, perceived as prone to groupthink and acting as an obstacle to government action; the deep state. Mr Cummings explains his loathing for the blob in his long and entertaining blog. He argues that it is made up of “grotesque incompetents”[…]
- A large mass of relatively warm water in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America that was detected in 2013 and continued to spread throughout 2014 and 2015.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: blot, stain, fleck, spot, smear, smudge, splotch, dollop, blemish, blur, scar, taint, birthmark, bag, sack, daub
Translations
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