blob

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A shapeless or amorphous mass

   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.

   • Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment.
   • It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
   • But there, on the very top, is a hollow full of water, with a sandy bottom; with a blob of jelly stuck to the side, and some mussels.
2. 2

   A large cloud of gas.

3. 3

   A bubble

   A bubble; a bleb.

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   1. 4

      A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii)

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

   2. 5

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

   3. 6

      A score of zero.

      • A gentleman named W. Shakespeare scored a blob in the Worcestershire v. Lancashire match. We understand that he got out because the ball pitched on a "damned spot."
   4. 7

      Physarum polycephalum, a bright yellow acellular slime mold known for solving puzzles,…

      Physarum polycephalum, a bright yellow acellular slime mold known for solving puzzles, making decisions, etc. without a nervous system.

   5. 8

      An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of…

      An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of fat and nothing else.

   6. 9

      To splash in the form of a blob or blobs.

      • Bones put the tiny crimson speck between his slides, blobbed a drop of oil on top, and focused the microscope.
      • […] a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home.
   7. 10

      To drop a blob or blobs onto

      To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs.

      • She was beating something in a pail, beating it with her hands; her arms were blobbed with pink froth to the elbows.
      • Asked to do a mural in the coffee room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors […]
   8. 11

      To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.

      • Caroline began to separate eggs, cracking them into unbelievably even halves, sliding the gold, round and elastic, from shell to shell, whilst the white hung, heavy, translucent, in thick sheets, and blobbed suddenly into her basin.
   9. 12

      To spill sauce on oneself while eating.

   10. 13

       To relax idly and mindlessly

       To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.

   11. 14

       To catch eels by means of worms strung on a thread.

       • […] where he had surreptitiously tickled small trout, or openly "blobbed" for eels with worms threaded on to darning wool when the rains came, […]
   12. 15

       Alternative spelling of BLOB.

   13. 16

       Acronym of binary large object.

       • I've added a BLOB so that we can store pictures.
   14. 17

       The section of the elite class in Washington D.C. who have moved from political or…

       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.

   15. 18

       The civil service and other public bodies, perceived as prone to groupthink and acting as…

       The civil service and other public bodies, perceived as prone to groupthink and acting as an obstacle to government action; the deep state.

       • Mr Cummings explains his loathing for the blob in his long and entertaining blog. He argues that it is made up of “grotesque incompetents”[…]
   16. 19

       A large mass of relatively warm water in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America…

       A large mass of relatively warm water in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America that was detected in 2013 and continued to spread throughout 2014 and 2015.

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