blob
UK/blɒb//blɑb/
blob noun: 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. Also the ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob.
Noun (1)
blob (plural blobs)
- 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.1869, Norman Lockyer et al., Nature
- 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.1895, The Annual of the British School at Athens
- A large cloud of gas.
- A bubble; a bleb.
- A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
- The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
- 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."1925, Punch, volume 168, page 561
- Physarum polycephalum, a bright yellow acellular slime mold known for solving puzzles, making decisions, etc. without a nervous system.
- An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of fat and nothing else.
Verb
blob (third-person singular simple present blobs, present participle blobbing, simple past and past participle blobbed)
- 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.1917, Edgar Wallace, chapter 6, in The Keepers of the King's Peace
- […] a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home.1957 October 7, “War of Nerves”, in Time
- 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.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 20, in Klee Wyck
- 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 […]1959 December 7, “The Big Appel”, in Time, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2013
- 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.1964, A. S. Byatt, chapter 3, in The Shadow of the Sun, Harcourt, Brace & Co., published 1991, page 47
- […] whether the blood has splashed, or blobbed, or trickled, can reveal whether the victim was killed here or moved afterwards.2013, Marcus Berkmann, "Blood and gore of the real 'who dunnits'," Review of Silent Witnesses by Nigel McCrery, Daily Mail, 22 August, 2013...
- To spill sauce on oneself while eating.
- To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
- 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, […]1937, The Argosy, volume 21, numbers 129-133, page 21
- Synonyms:
- bob
Proper noun capitalized: Blob
the Blob
- 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.
- 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”[…]2020 February 6, Bagehot, “Cummings v the blob”, in The Economist
- Rising numbers of Tory MPs believe that Truss was the first prime minister to be intentionally deposed by the 'Blob' — the increasingly partisan quangocrats, civil servants and other key figures in Left-leaning institutions who seem determined to undermine the elected government.2023 September 8, Andrew Pierce, “Who really runs Britain? As Liz Truss returns to the political fray ANDREW PIERCE reveals the inside story of how she was driven out as Prime Minister by the...
- 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.
Noun (2) capitalized: BLOB
BLOB (plural BLOBs)
- Acronym of binary large object.
- I've added a BLOB so that we can store pictures.
Also used as
blob is also the ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob.
blob is also the alternative spelling of BLOB.
blob meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
blob in Hindi
- ब्लॉब, ब्लाब
blob in Tamil
- ப்லோப்
blob in Marathi
- ब्लॉब
blob in Bengali
- ব্লব, ব্লব করার জন্য, ব্লব করতে
More languagesFewer languages
- blob in Telugu
- బ్లాబ్, బ్లాబ్ చెయ్యడానికి
- blob in Malayalam
- ബ്ലാബ്, ബ്ലോബ്
- blob in Kannada
- ಬ್ಲಾಬ್, ಬ್ಲೊಬ್
- blob in Punjabi
- ਬਲੌਬ, ਬਲਾਬ, ਬਲੌਬ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- blob in Gujarati
- બ્લોબ, બ્લોબ કરવા માટે
- blob in Odia
- ବ୍ଲବ୍, ବ୍ଲବ
- blob in Nepali
- ब्लब, ब्लोब, ब्लब गर्न
Examples of blob in a sentence
- The corners of the wire mesh were reinforced with little blobs of solder.
- On platforms that support it, a devicetree blob will be passed by the firmware to the operating system upon boot.
- The other bosom was hanging down, with a funny long red blob on the end.
Synonyms of blob
Forms of blob
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | blobs |
| plural | BLOBs |
| alternative form | blob |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | blobs |
| present participle | blobbing |
| past participle | blobbed |
| past | blobbed |
Origin of blob
From Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber.
Formed as a backronym. See Object storage#Origins.
Words formed from blob
Words that rhyme with blob
Questions about blob
- What does blob mean?
- Blob means 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.
- What is blob in Hindi?
- Blob in Hindi is ब्लॉब, ब्लाब. See Blob meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is blob?
- Blob can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce blob?
- Blob is pronounced /blɒb/ (UK).
- What is the plural of blob?
- The plural of blob is blobs.
Words near blob in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: blob (page history and authors); Blob (page history and authors); BLOB (page history and authors); blob (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blob (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blob (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blob (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blob (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blob (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blob (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blob (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blob (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blob (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blob (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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