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  (blŏb) pronunciation
n.
  1. A soft, amorphous mass.
  2. A daub, as of color.
tr.v., blobbed, blob·bing, blobs.

To splash or daub with blobs; splotch.

[From Middle English blober, bubble, bubbling, probably of imitative origin.]


 
 
WordNet: blob
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: an indistinct shapeless form


The verb blob has one meaning:

Meaning #1: make a spot or mark onto
  Synonyms: spot, fleck, blot


 
Wikipedia: Blob (disambiguation)


Blob usually means a soft amorphous mass, and may refer to:

  • Binary large object (BLOB), in computer database systems
  • Metaballs, in computer graphics terms, are organic-looking n-dimensional objects.
  • Blob (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain, adversary of the X-Men
  • The Blob, 1958 American science-fiction film depicting a giant amoeba-like alien
  • Blobitecture, in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, bulging form
  • Binary blob, in open source computing, a non-free object file loaded into the kernel
  • Blob detection, in computer vision, visual modules that detect regions in the image
  • God object, or "The Blob", anti-pattern in object-oriented programming
  • Blob (visual system), sections of the visual cortex where groups of neurons which are sensitive to color assemble in cylindrical shapes
  • Lyman-alpha blob, a huge concentration of a gas emitting the Lyman-alpha emission line
  • Globster, an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water
    • Chilean Blob, a 13-tonne mass of tissue discovered in 2003 on a beach in Chile, the partial remains of a dead sperm whale
    • A mass of sea squirts, found invading many coastal waters around the world
  • The Blob (Clayfighter), playable character in the Clayfighter video games

See also

  • Blobject, a colorful, mass-produced, plastic-based, emotionally engaging consumer product
  • The Mississauga Blob, a flaming object—later that fell on a back-yard picnic table in Mississauga, Ontario in, 1979 identified as a frisbee
  • May blobs, Caltha palustris flowers
  • A Boy and His Blob, a video game developed in 1989 for the Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Mr. Blobby, Noel Edmonds novelty suit character

 
Translations: Translations for: Blob

Dansk (Danish)
n. - dråbe, klat
v. tr. - klatte

Nederlands (Dutch)
klodder, bobbel, vlek

Français (French)
n. - grosse goutte, forme floue, tache (d'encre), pâté
v. tr. - éclabousser qch de gouttes de peinture

Deutsch (German)
n. - Tropfen, Klecks, Fleck
v. - klecksen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - άμορφη μάζα, στάξιμο, στάλα, βωλαράκι, γρόμπος
v. - κηλιδώνω

Italiano (Italian)
bolla d'aria, macchia, fare bolle

Português (Portuguese)
n. - gota (f)
v. - respingar

Русский (Russian)
капля, шарик, покрывать пятнами

Español (Spanish)
n. - gota, borrón, mancha
v. tr. - gotear

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - droppe, klick
v. - plumpa, droppa, klicka

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
一滴, 斑点, 水滴, 溅污

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 一滴, 斑點, 水滴
v. tr. - 濺污

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 방울, 얼룩, 물 튀기는 소리
v. tr. - ~에 얼룩을 묻히다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 染み, 小塊

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نقطه, بقعه (فعل) يلطخ ببقع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮גוש קטן, טיפה, כתם, שלפוחית‬
v. tr. - ‮יצר אבעבועות או בועות‬


 
 

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