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[ blob ] / blɒb / SEE SYNONYMS FOR blob ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna globule of liquid; bubble. a small lump, drop, splotch, or daub: A blob of paint marred the surface. an object, especially a large one, having no distinct shape or definition: a blob on the horizon. a dull, slow-witted, and uninteresting person. verb (used with object), blobbed, blob·bing.to mark or splotch with blobs. Origin of blob1400–50; late Middle English; apparently expressive formation Words nearby blobBL Lac object, BLM, bloat, bloated, bloater, blob, bloc, Blocadren, Bloch, Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome, block Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for blobFor now, at least, the blob seems very comfortable right where it is. An Unexpected Twist Lights Up the Secrets of Turbulence|David H. Freedman|September 3, 2020|Quanta Magazine For the first time, scientists have observed visible light from enormous blobs of gas that sandwich the pancake flat part of our Milky Way galaxy. Spotted: Milky Way’s giant gas bubbles in visible light|Emily Conover|July 16, 2020|Science News For Students That means the blobs we see in the sky from the time of recombination must be closer to us than researchers supposed. The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View|Natalie Wolchover|July 2, 2020|Quanta Magazine The light shows a young universe studded with blobs that formed from sound waves sloshing around in the primordial plasma. The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View|Natalie Wolchover|July 2, 2020|Quanta Magazine
It remains to be seen whether a blob of pyroCb smoke like this could leave a chemical scar on the stratosphere. Smoke from Australian fires rose higher into the ozone layer than ever before|Maria Temming|June 15, 2020|Science News The movie could have been, should have been, The Blob, 21st-centurystyle. The Distorted Science of Contagion|Kent Sepkowitz|September 23, 2011|DAILY BEAST Maybe a blob of cigarette ash obscured that particular sentence. Why Is Obama Reading My Book?|Edmund Morris|March 9, 2010|DAILY BEAST Soon they spied the blob of Mr Dudeney's hat against the sky a long way off. Rewards and Fairies|Rudyard Kipling "I wish I didn't have such a blob of a nose," she said ruefully. Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman|Emma Speed Sampson Reuben Cory watched his tall brother lift a candle in its pewter sconce and trim a blob of wax with his thumbnail. Wilderness of Spring|Edgar Pangborn A blob of blue smoke curled out of a hole the size of a hogshead in a steep bank overhung with alders. At any rate, there is the great impassable waterfall, the blob above it and below. A Book of Natural History|Various
British Dictionary definitions for blob
nouna soft mass or drop, as of some viscous liquid a spot, dab, or blotch of colour, ink, etc a indistinct or shapeless form or object a slang word for condom verb blobs, blobbing or blobbed(tr) to put blobs, as of ink or paint, on Derived forms of blobblobby, adjectiveWord Origin for blobC15: perhaps of imitative origin; compare bubble Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to blobsplotch, droplet, glob, blotch, bead, blot, dab, splash, daub, globule, ball, bubble, dot |