BLOB

blob

(noun) an indistinct shapeless form

spot, fleck, blob, blot

(verb) make a spot or mark onto; “The wine spotted the tablecloth”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Possibly formed through mimesis, similarly to bleb and blubber.

Noun

blob (plural 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.

In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.

(dialect) A bubble; a bleb.

A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.

The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.

(sports, slang) A score of zero.

Verb

blob (third-person singular simple present blobs, present participle blobbing, simple past and past participle blobbed)

(transitive) To drop in the form of a blob or blobs

(transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.

(intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.

(intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.

Etymology 2

Noun

blob (plural blobs)

Alternative spelling of BLOB

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Proper noun

Blob

(US, pejorative, generally with definite article) 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.

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Etymology

Acronym.

Noun

BLOB (plural BLOBs)

(databases) Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).

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Source: Wiktionary


Blob, n. Etym: [See Bleb.]

1. Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister. Wright.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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