spot, fleck, blob, blot
(verb) make a spot or mark onto; “The wine spotted the tablecloth”
blot
(verb) dry (ink) with blotting paper
Source: WordNet® 3.1
blotting
present participle of blot
blotting (plural blottings)
A blot; a stain.
The process by which something is blotted.
• bottling
Source: Wiktionary
Blot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting.] Etym: [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.]
1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.
2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. Shak.
3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace. Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. Rowe.
4. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. Dryden.
5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.
6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
Syn.
– To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.
Blot, v. i.
Definition: To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
Blot, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. blettr, Dan. plet.]
1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." Shak.
2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.
3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish. This deadly blot in thy digressing son. Shak.
Blot, n. Etym: [Cf. Dan. blot bare, naked, Sw. blott, d. bloot, G. bloss, and perh. E. bloat.]
1. (Backgammon) (a) An exposure of a single man to be taken up. (b) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up. He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit. Dryden.
2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 May 2025
(noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
