DictionaryRoot: blob
English

blob

to make or mark with blobs

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noun / verb

blob

BLAHB/blɑːb/

A small shapeless mass or spot, or to form or mark with one.

A small blob of thick blue paint lies beside the brush.

A small, irregular blob of thick blue paint on a plain white surface, with a paintbrush beside it establishing scale and material.
Etymology

The earlier verb blob meant to make or mark with blobs; the noun also formerly named bubbles and blisters before its recorded “drop, globule” sense. A relationship to bubble is possible, not established.

In context

Adafruit Industries20:48
we've got those little uh sort of chevron shaped pads and you bridge a solder blob across those to close those addresses
JOHN PARK'S WORKSHOP LIVE 12/2/21 NeoSlider Controller Build @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit

More examples

  • She blobbed glue onto the cardboard.
  • Several bright blobs spread across the wet surface.
  • The child is blobbing colors together with a sponge.

Forms

blob · blobs · blobbed · blobbing

Similar words

glob
Often a thick lump of sticky or semiliquid material.
spot
A small mark that need not have a shapeless mass.