blob
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /blɒb/
美 /blɑb/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
- Alternative spelling of BLOB.
- A large cloud of gas.
- A large cloud of gas.; Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob, a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
- 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.
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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."
- 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.
动词 v.
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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.
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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.
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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.
- To spill sauce on oneself while eating.
- To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
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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, […]
词汇关系
词源
From Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber.
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