blob

noun

\ ˈbläb

Definition of blob

(Entry 1 of 2)

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

b : a daub or spot of color

2 : something shapeless

blob

verb

blobbed; blobbing

Definition of blob (Entry 2 of 2)

transitive verb

: to mark with blobs : splotch

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Examples of blob in a Sentence

Noun

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

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

Take just about any cell, find the nucleus, then look inside it for a dark, little blob. — Joanna Klein, New York Times, "The Thing Inside Your Cells That Might Determine How Long You Live," 20 May 2018 Scoop the batter in about 6 large blobs over the peaches. — Rebekah Denn, The Seattle Times, "Food52.com writer Kristen Miglore’s book ‘Genius Desserts’ includes several sweet Seattle specialties," 27 Nov. 2018 On the forest floor 99 million years ago, a baby snake got trapped in a blob of sap that fell from a tree. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Oldest Ever Baby Snake Discovered in Forest Amber," 19 July 2018 Today, the Persephone planter is their best-selling blob — fitting, given millennials’ habit of accumulating and Instagramming houseplants. — Eliza Brooke, Vox, "Some people feel a tenderness toward bulbous candles and planters. Why?," 21 Dec. 2018 When the door opens, a brown blob shoots out like a missile, a canine version of the Pink Panther’s Cato. — Sue Hertz, BostonGlobe.com, "Learning to roll with Canadian June," 25 Apr. 2018 Since then, one of the pieces has been put on display, where visitors can watch the disgusting blob of fat go through changes in real time. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "Watch London's Gross Fatberg Gruesomely Transform in Real Time," 15 Aug. 2018 In it, Chelsey White who runs the Instagram account @Chelsweets, shows us how to turn blobs of colorful frosting into a watercolor-like masterpiece. — Country Living, "You Will Not Be Able To Stop Watching This Mesmerizing Halloween Cake Video," 7 Oct. 2016 There's also a huge binary blob—a Windows .NET compiler—which the malware uses to compile a dynamic-link library version of the PingCastle network scanning tool for locating potentially vulnerable targets elsewhere on the network. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Unpatched systems at big companies continue to fall to WannaMine worm," 14 Sep. 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

Although seaweed is normal, seaweed blobs this thick are not. — Jacob Sweet, miamiherald, "Lots of sun, and brown slimy seaweed, in the forecast for South Florida beaches," 3 July 2018

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