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单词 blob
释义
blobblob /blɒb $ blɑːb/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINblob
Origin:
1700-1800 Probably from blob ‘bubble’ (16-19 centuries), perhaps from the sound made by the lips when producing a bubble
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Blobs of wax had dripped from the candle onto the table cloth.
  • Astronomers say the comet will look like a fuzzy blob in the southwestern sky.
  • Put a blob of glue on each surface and carefully press together.
  • Rita dropped a blob of paint on the new carpet.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A big pink blob of a face was at the window, peering in at him.
  • All I could see, as usual, with my untrained eye, were blobs and shadows.
  • And then she picked up the map and stared at the blobs of green and yellow in the Aegean Sea.
  • Some were no more than motionless translucent blobs.
  • Then I saw a blob of something floating in the water.
  • Thirty-two-year-old Mike Keneally managed to transform himself from a 28-stone blob into a 14-stone hunk.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatoran amount of liquid
a very small amount of liquid in a round shape, that falls from somewhere : drop of: · Big drops of rain slid down the window pane.· Add a few drops of vanilla essence, the egg white and half the butter.· She applied a few drops of perfume behind her ears and smiled at her reflection in the mirror.
a drop or small amount of thick liquid: blob of paint/glue/wax/grease etc: · Rita dropped a blob of paint on the new carpet.· Blobs of wax had dripped from the candle onto the table cloth.· Put a blob of glue on each surface and carefully press together.
an area of liquid lying on a surface: pool of: · Trautman was lying in a pool of blood.· A pool of oil had collected under the car.
1a very small round mass of a liquid or sticky substanceblob of a blob of honey2something that cannot be clearly seen, especially because it is far away:  Without a telescope, the comet will look like a fuzzy blob.
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