blob

noun \ ˈbläb \

Updated on: 18 May 2018

Definition of blob

1 a : a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick

b : a daub or spot of color

2 : something shapeless

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Examples of blob in a Sentence

That blue blob in the corner of the map is the lake we're headed for.
flicked a blob of jelly on the toast and began to spread it around

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Additionally, there are now more stickers available in Gboard, including blob emoji.

— shannon liao, The Verge, "Gboard’s custom GIFs have come to select Android devices in beta," 4 May 2018
Cold War-era sci-fi offered a dispiriting menu of extraterrestrial avatars: supersonic birds, scaly monsters, gelatinous blobs.

— junot díaz, The New Yorker, "“2001: A Space Odyssey”: What It Means, and How It Was Made," 17 Apr. 2018
The gene activity data showed that even when the frog embryo appears to be an undifferentiated blob, its cells have begun to take on their eventual identities, say as a tail bud.

— elizabeth pennisi, Science | AAAS, "How one cell gives rise to an entire body," 26 Apr. 2018
In this case, the blobs are composed of iron and sulfur minerals scattered throughout both the diamonds and the bands of graphite that separate them.

— scott k. johnson, Ars Technica, "Meteorite’s diamonds tell of Earth’s baby sister, which died young," 18 Apr. 2018
Instead of a big blob of dressing covering the flavor of the chicken, my bite was balanced between the acidic earthy sourness of the blue cheese and the heat of the wings.

— fred thompson, charlotteobserver, "This homemade blue cheese dressing will give you the ultimate wing experience," 27 Feb. 2018
Because the human cells had been genetically engineered to express green fluorescent protein, the tiny blobs showed up in brilliant lime through the transparent window that the scientists glued into the mice’s skull.

— sharon begley, STAT, "Miniature human brains grow for months when implanted in mice skulls," 16 Apr. 2018
In 2017, the warm-water condition — known as the blob — eased, and that could help boost survival rates for chinook salmon that return as adults in future years, according to Dygert, the federal fishery official.

— hal bernton, The Seattle Times, "Fish council OKs sharp cut in sport chinook harvest off Washington," 11 Apr. 2018
Others hand out blobs of scented putty, known as therapy dough, that is designed to calm.

— kyle spencer, New York Times, "Homework Therapists’ Job: Help Solve Math Problems, and Emotional Ones," 4 Apr. 2018

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Origin and Etymology of blob

Middle English (Scots)

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First Known Use: 15th century

in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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blob Synonyms

Synonyms

chunk, clod, clot, clump, dollop, glob, gob, gobbet, hunk, knob, lump, nub, nubble, nugget, wad;

Related Words

bead, drop, globule;

block, body, bulk;

particle, piece, portion;

bit, chip, crumb, granule, morsel, nubbin, patch, scrap;

blob

verb

Definition of blob

blobbed; blobbing

transitive verb

: to mark with blobs : splotch

First Known Use of blob

15th century

in the meaning defined above

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blob

noun

Definition of blob for English Language Learners

: a usually small amount of something thick and wet
: something that does not have a regular shape

BLOB Defined for Kids

blob

noun \ ˈbläb \

Definition of blob for Students

: a small lump or drop of something thick

a blob of paint

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