clot
/klɒt/
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British/klɔt/
clot noun: a thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
Noun
clot (plural clots)
- A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
- A solidified mass of any liquid.
- and nothing elſe but euen, A heauie lump and clottred clod of ſeedes togither driuen)1567, Ovid, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naſo, entytuled Metamorphoſis, tranſlated oute of Latin into Engliſh meeter, by Arthur Golding, Gentleman
- Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
- A person who is silly, stupid, dull, a clod.
Verb
clot (third-person singular simple present clots, present participle clotting, simple past and past participle clotted)
- To form a clot or mass.
- When there is a wounded area on the body, the natural response is for platelets in the blood to clot to plug the wound.2023 January 5, Amber Smith, “30 Health Benefits of Turmeric”, in Discover Magazine, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2023
- To cause to clot or form into a mass.
- They didn't explode into blood and clotted matter.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168
clot meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
clot in Hindi
- blood clot
- थक्का thakkā
- solidified mass of any liquid
- थक्का thakkā
clot in Tamil
- உறைகட்டி, உறைவு, உறைதல், உறைக்கட்டி, உறைத்துகள், குருதியுறைதல்
clot in Urdu
- تھکے, لختہ خون, پھٹکی, بےوقوف
clot in Bengali
- জমাট, থলি
More languagesFewer languages
- clot in Telugu
- గడ్డకట్టు gaḍḍakaṭṭu
- clot in Malayalam
- കട്ടപിടിക്കുക
- clot in Kannada
- ಹೆಪ್ಪು, ಗೆಡ್ಡೆ, ಗರಣೆ, ಕಣ್ಣೆ
- clot in Sanskrit
- स्तु stu
- clot in Nepali
- क्लोट
- clot in Persian
- لخته laxte, لخته شدن laxte šodan
- clot in Thai
- ลิ่ม lîm
Examples of clot in a sentence
- I like to have scones with jam and clotted cream for afternoon tea.
- The patient needed to take blood thinners to prevent clots from thrombophilia.
- The lack of legroom on international flights can be a health hazard as blood clots can form from not being able to move around.
Synonyms of clot
Forms of clot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | clots |
| alternative form (dated) | clout |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | clots |
| present participle | clotting |
| past participle | clotted |
| past | clotted |
Origin of clot
From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”). Cognate with German Klotz (“block”). Doublet of clod and klutz.
Words formed from clot
Phrases with clot
Words that rhyme with clot
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blot
- rot
- apricot
- ribat
- bot
- got
- not
- red-hot
- snot
- stot
- tot
- calotte
- jot
- a lot
- allot
- cot
- fembot
- frot
- mot
- quat
- swot
- white-hot
- begot
- cannot
- forgot
- garrote
- grot
- marotte
- not so hot
- nott
- Nouakchott
- overshot
- piping hot
- scot
- scrot
- sot
- subplot
- swat
- thot
- wot
- yacht
- asquat
- beach ball plot
- besot
- brat
- carotte
- chamotte
- chott
Questions about clot
- What does clot mean?
- Clot means a thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
- What is clot in Hindi?
- Clot in Hindi is थक्का (thakkā). See Clot meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is clot?
- Clot can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce clot?
- Clot is pronounced /klɒt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of clot?
- The plural of clot is clots.
Words near clot in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: clot (page history and authors); clot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clot (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clot (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); గడ్డకట్టు (Telugu) (page history and authors); clot (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clot (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); स्तु (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); clot (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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