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Definition of blob in English: blobnounPlural BLOBs, Plural blobs blɒb 1A drop of a thick liquid or viscous substance. Example sentencesExamples - The stinger's gone, so just wash it and rub a good blob of jungle ointment in it and round it.
- The samosa were weird but quite pleasant, if spoiled by deep-frying and an out-of-proportion blob of vinegary mayonnaise.
- The slag was looking rusty, and where some of it had been eroded there has appeared a large blob of tar, it was melting and bubbling in the sun.
- What we had done was smash our fists down on a blob of mercury and it had burst out into many droplets.
- It had tiny blobs of horseradish cream and a little parmesan on top but the meat was not raw, rather almost cured with vinegary and watery juices from a pile of redundant salad leaves on top.
- If anything ever looked more like a bug splat on a car windshield or a blob of ice cream dropped on a sidewalk - it just has to be the asterisk.
- Is there a shared factor that binds the two together like a blob of industrial-strength super glue?
- In one model, a saffron-yellow liquid filled the globe, and a blue blob of oil oozed up from the glass bottom like some alien life form.
- Then the ‘piece de resistance’ - I spooned two blobs of vanilla ice cream on the two portions, and thus a remarkable meal was complete.
- Suppose a glowing blob of some unknown substance were parked right in front of you.
- Push a button with your thumb and it dispenses a perfect-sized blob of toothpaste through the bristles and onto the head.
- The handmade ravioli were plump with a purée of vegetables, and generously coated with a light tomato sauce and strategically placed blobs of basil pesto.
- They're made of flat blobs of glass, held together by some kind of soldered metal.
- I sign the verse, then drop a blob of wax underneath and make a thumb-print.
- A good blob of moisturizer on your face will help your skin retain water, making sure it stays soft and supple.
- The sink was blocked and full of blobs of gunk.
- There are clear, with the usual imperfections that come with Mexican glassware, and have interesting green and blue blobs of glass embedded in the glass.
- The molten glass may then be poured into moulds and shaped under high pressure, or taken as a blob of red hot liquid and blown into moulds, or free blown.
- You can drop a blob of whipped cream to enhance the taste and add a small dash of the cognac to it.
- When I say I ‘made’ the dessert, I cut off a portion of sponge and took the ice cream out of the freezer - then I spooned out the two blobs of ice cream.
- It was crisp, with a dollop of really well-made tomato salsa on top (which suggested long, slow cooking and adroit seasoning) and there was a blob of melted mozzarella on that.
Synonyms drop, droplet, globule, bead, ball, bubble, pellet, pill, pearl informal glob - 1.1 A spot of colour.
the town is much more than a brown blob on the map Example sentencesExamples - ‘I was thinking we'd stop at this town,’ he pointed to a blob on the map with his free hand, suddenly needing to change the topic.
- On the studio wall, beside the sliver of window, is a large, multi - coloured blob.
- The home page is a white page with a five line contents list up on the left and a brown blob in the middle.
- A white blob was smeared across the lower part of his abdomen.
- It plays games and curious entertainments of swirly coloured blobs.
- It shows the 400 outbreaks of foot-and-mouth marked with red blobs.
- There is a history here of ancient waymarking, a faded blob of yellow now and then, one on an antique and redundant gatepost that will topple at the next nudge of a sheep's flank.
- British haute cuisine is currently at risk from choking itself to an early death on a diet of squiggles, blobs, foams, and purees.
- The slides all looked identical to Dan - a lot of coloured blobs and tangled spaghetti, annotated by mysterious abbreviations.
- As for telling the time accurately, merely knowing that the big hand is somewhere in between the two widely-spaced coloured blobs on your watch face is usually quite good enough for most people.
- The results are pictures of temperature fluctuations shown as tiny blobs of red and white.
- While the paint is still damp, I drop blobs of brown paint onto the wet wash, creating a random spotted pattern.
- Every coloured blob indicates a weekend shutdown along part of a particular line.
- All sorts of things that he could think of as being ordered and arranged in his mind he would see as if they were patterns of coloured blobs in very particular patterns.
- At the last moment he hesitated, spotting the light reflecting off a garish purple blob taped oddly to the side of a tree another fifty feet up the trail.
Synonyms spot, dab, splash, pop, daub, blotch, blot, dot, fleck, speck, smudge, smear, streak, mark informal splotch, splodge - 1.2 An indeterminate roundish mass or shape.
a big pink blob of a face was at the window Example sentencesExamples - She looked into the bag and pulled out what looked like a shapeless blob.
- Otherwise I would look like a big blob in the middle of the screen.
- There are the pieces barely there in form, undefined and tentative, as if they were emerging from the confining blob of clay.
- The four blobs were growing, taking on distinct shapes of their own.
- Her vision blurred the faces around her into blobs and spots.
- The images in front of my eyes began flying by so quickly, I was no longer able to focus and pretty soon, they'd melted into one big grey blob.
- How am I going to enjoy the dance if all I can see is big blobs from the flash?
- A third assumed a spherical shell containing dense blobs or clumps of matter.
- Soon someone spotted a massive, gelatinous white blob wriggling in the sand.
- And back in the 90s, some other scientists studied age-old chunks of a mystery blob from 1869.
- It was this big pink blob, and I had to let it go somewhere.
- You must also not overlap the silhouetted shapes because you will end up with an unidentifiable blob.
- My mind was a big blob and it wouldn't function right.
- One, the blob tends to take on the shape of a sphere.
- In further contrast to the brightly coloured clothes and accessories of the young women, the man's body seems no longer human and instead is a black blob trailing a crimson train of blood.
- They don't put the chunks of fatty blobs in, and I'd forgotten they exist.
- The solidified fat droplets collide and adhere to each other, but they retain much of their original shape instead of forming one big blob.
- Still, the sight took on an ominous face, especially when the blob began to from a solid tangible shape.
- Further down the field the finishing line was marked by a group of people-shaped grey blobs.
- Sometimes, that's the only way to get an amorphous blob into shape.
Synonyms glob, gobbet, lump, clump, ball, mound - 1.3informal A score of 0 in a game.
he made a string of blobs then hit a hundred Example sentencesExamples - It's a shame because the fans suffer as the league homogenizes into one indiscernible parity-filled blob.
verbblobs, blobbed, blobbing blɒb [with object]Put small drops of thick liquid or spots of colour on. her nose was blobbed with paint Example sentencesExamples - They begin with a canvas blobbed with dollops of non-toxic paint in strategic places, and their creativity is expressed through finger painting.
- We blobbed some blue and white paint on top of the glue then we swirled it with a glue spreader
- I blobbed some hot-melt glue on the backs of the boards and pressed them into place.
Synonyms daub, dab, spot, smear, bedaub, splash, slap, slop
Derivatives adjectiveblobbiest, blobbier ˈblɒbiˈblɑbi And with construction catching up to the imagination of architects, the curved and blobby shapes of these designs are becoming more and more realistic every day. Example sentencesExamples - Place a plastic sieve over the bowl and push the eggs and bramble purée through the sieve, so that any blobby bits of the white and all the bramble pips remain in the sieve.
- These peculiar blobby silhouettes will surely provoke breathless imaginations.
- Inside the ball was something, something blobby, something with legs, something possibly (but not definitely) dead.
- Because Chennai's skyline is low, the sky was very big - blobby clouds lit by a full moon.
- My nose just kind of sat there, kind of blobby, unmistakably hereditary, a little bit wonky and sort of round.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting a bubble): perhaps symbolic of a drop of liquid; compare with blotch, blubber1, and plop. Rhymes bob, cob, dob, fob, glob, gob, hob, job, lob, mob, nob, rob, slob, snob, sob, squab, stob, swab, throb, yob nounblɑbbläb 1A drop of a thick liquid or viscous substance. Example sentencesExamples - In one model, a saffron-yellow liquid filled the globe, and a blue blob of oil oozed up from the glass bottom like some alien life form.
- The samosa were weird but quite pleasant, if spoiled by deep-frying and an out-of-proportion blob of vinegary mayonnaise.
- The molten glass may then be poured into moulds and shaped under high pressure, or taken as a blob of red hot liquid and blown into moulds, or free blown.
- If anything ever looked more like a bug splat on a car windshield or a blob of ice cream dropped on a sidewalk - it just has to be the asterisk.
- Is there a shared factor that binds the two together like a blob of industrial-strength super glue?
- When I say I ‘made’ the dessert, I cut off a portion of sponge and took the ice cream out of the freezer - then I spooned out the two blobs of ice cream.
- What we had done was smash our fists down on a blob of mercury and it had burst out into many droplets.
- Then the ‘piece de resistance’ - I spooned two blobs of vanilla ice cream on the two portions, and thus a remarkable meal was complete.
- Suppose a glowing blob of some unknown substance were parked right in front of you.
- The slag was looking rusty, and where some of it had been eroded there has appeared a large blob of tar, it was melting and bubbling in the sun.
- You can drop a blob of whipped cream to enhance the taste and add a small dash of the cognac to it.
- I sign the verse, then drop a blob of wax underneath and make a thumb-print.
- The handmade ravioli were plump with a purée of vegetables, and generously coated with a light tomato sauce and strategically placed blobs of basil pesto.
- It had tiny blobs of horseradish cream and a little parmesan on top but the meat was not raw, rather almost cured with vinegary and watery juices from a pile of redundant salad leaves on top.
- There are clear, with the usual imperfections that come with Mexican glassware, and have interesting green and blue blobs of glass embedded in the glass.
- They're made of flat blobs of glass, held together by some kind of soldered metal.
- It was crisp, with a dollop of really well-made tomato salsa on top (which suggested long, slow cooking and adroit seasoning) and there was a blob of melted mozzarella on that.
- A good blob of moisturizer on your face will help your skin retain water, making sure it stays soft and supple.
- The sink was blocked and full of blobs of gunk.
- The stinger's gone, so just wash it and rub a good blob of jungle ointment in it and round it.
- Push a button with your thumb and it dispenses a perfect-sized blob of toothpaste through the bristles and onto the head.
Synonyms drop, droplet, globule, bead, ball, bubble, pellet, pill, pearl - 1.1 A spot of color.
a badly printed blob on shopping bags Example sentencesExamples - There is a history here of ancient waymarking, a faded blob of yellow now and then, one on an antique and redundant gatepost that will topple at the next nudge of a sheep's flank.
- It plays games and curious entertainments of swirly coloured blobs.
- A white blob was smeared across the lower part of his abdomen.
- As for telling the time accurately, merely knowing that the big hand is somewhere in between the two widely-spaced coloured blobs on your watch face is usually quite good enough for most people.
- The slides all looked identical to Dan - a lot of coloured blobs and tangled spaghetti, annotated by mysterious abbreviations.
- At the last moment he hesitated, spotting the light reflecting off a garish purple blob taped oddly to the side of a tree another fifty feet up the trail.
- All sorts of things that he could think of as being ordered and arranged in his mind he would see as if they were patterns of coloured blobs in very particular patterns.
- The home page is a white page with a five line contents list up on the left and a brown blob in the middle.
- While the paint is still damp, I drop blobs of brown paint onto the wet wash, creating a random spotted pattern.
- On the studio wall, beside the sliver of window, is a large, multi - coloured blob.
- It shows the 400 outbreaks of foot-and-mouth marked with red blobs.
- Every coloured blob indicates a weekend shutdown along part of a particular line.
- The results are pictures of temperature fluctuations shown as tiny blobs of red and white.
- British haute cuisine is currently at risk from choking itself to an early death on a diet of squiggles, blobs, foams, and purees.
- ‘I was thinking we'd stop at this town,’ he pointed to a blob on the map with his free hand, suddenly needing to change the topic.
Synonyms spot, dab, splash, pop, daub, blotch, blot, dot, fleck, speck, smudge, smear, streak, mark - 1.2 An indeterminate mass or shape.
a leathery blob commonly known as a sea squirt Example sentencesExamples - Further down the field the finishing line was marked by a group of people-shaped grey blobs.
- It was this big pink blob, and I had to let it go somewhere.
- Still, the sight took on an ominous face, especially when the blob began to from a solid tangible shape.
- My mind was a big blob and it wouldn't function right.
- You must also not overlap the silhouetted shapes because you will end up with an unidentifiable blob.
- There are the pieces barely there in form, undefined and tentative, as if they were emerging from the confining blob of clay.
- Soon someone spotted a massive, gelatinous white blob wriggling in the sand.
- One, the blob tends to take on the shape of a sphere.
- Sometimes, that's the only way to get an amorphous blob into shape.
- They don't put the chunks of fatty blobs in, and I'd forgotten they exist.
- She looked into the bag and pulled out what looked like a shapeless blob.
- In further contrast to the brightly coloured clothes and accessories of the young women, the man's body seems no longer human and instead is a black blob trailing a crimson train of blood.
- A third assumed a spherical shell containing dense blobs or clumps of matter.
- The four blobs were growing, taking on distinct shapes of their own.
- How am I going to enjoy the dance if all I can see is big blobs from the flash?
- And back in the 90s, some other scientists studied age-old chunks of a mystery blob from 1869.
- Otherwise I would look like a big blob in the middle of the screen.
- The solidified fat droplets collide and adhere to each other, but they retain much of their original shape instead of forming one big blob.
- Her vision blurred the faces around her into blobs and spots.
- The images in front of my eyes began flying by so quickly, I was no longer able to focus and pretty soon, they'd melted into one big grey blob.
Synonyms glob, gobbet, lump, clump, ball, mound
verbblɑbbläb [with object]Put small drops of thick liquid or spots of color on. her nose was blobbed with paint Example sentencesExamples - I blobbed some hot-melt glue on the backs of the boards and pressed them into place.
- We blobbed some blue and white paint on top of the glue then we swirled it with a glue spreader
- They begin with a canvas blobbed with dollops of non-toxic paint in strategic places, and their creativity is expressed through finger painting.
Synonyms daub, dab, spot, smear, bedaub, splash, slap, slop
Origin Late Middle English (denoting a bubble): perhaps symbolic of a drop of liquid; compare with blotch, blubber, and plop. |