BLOB (blobbed, blobbing)

Pronunciation (US):

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected forms: blobbed    , blobbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does blob mean? 

• BLOB (noun)
  The noun BLOB has 1 sense:

1. an indistinct shapeless form

  Familiarity information: BLOB used as a noun is very rare.

• BLOB (verb)
  The verb BLOB has 1 sense:

1. make a spot or mark onto

  Familiarity information: BLOB used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An indistinct shapeless form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("blob" is a kind of...):

amorphous shape (an ill-defined or arbitrary shape)

Derivation:

blob (make a spot or mark onto)

• BLOB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they blob    ... he / she / it blobs   
Past simple: blobbed   
Past participle: blobbed   
-ing form: blobbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a spot or mark onto

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

blob; blot; fleck; spot

Context example:

The wine spotted the tablecloth

Hypernyms (to "blob" is one way to...):

change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)

Verb group:

stain (produce or leave stains)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blob"):

splotch (blotch or spot)

defile; maculate; stain; sully; tarnish (make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically)

bespeckle; speckle (mark with small spots)

bespatter; spatter (spot, splash, or soil)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

blob (an indistinct shapeless form)

 Context examples 

Before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited it in 2015, the largest of the dwarf planets had appeared as little more than a fuzzy blob, even to the keen-eyed Hubble Space Telescope.

(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)

This material then settles into a disk around the companion, and serves as the launching pad for blobs of plasma, which travel at roughly a half-million miles per hour.

(Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star, NASA)

The galaxy it is a gigantic blob that you can look through.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)

The green blob near the bottom of the galaxy wasn't visible during the first NuSTAR observation but was burning bright at the start of a second observation 10 days later.

(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star.

(Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star, NASA)