blob
blob Lexical Profile
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• noun
A small drop or lump of a thick liquid or viscous substance.
"The artist squeezed a generous blob of crimson paint onto her wooden palette."
An amorphous, indistinct, or rounded mass or shape with no definite outline.
"Without my glasses, the distant street signs looked like blurry blobs of color."
In computing, a collection of binary data stored as a single entity in a database management system (originally an acronym for Binary Large Object).
"The database stores user profile pictures and audio files as blobs rather than plain text."
• verb
To mark, spot, or dab a surface with drops or lumps of a thick liquid or color.
"She carefully blobbed white icing onto each cooled cupcake."
• Rhymes for blob
Word Origin & Etymology
First recorded in the early 15th century, likely of imitative or expressive origin representing the sound and shape of a bubble or drop of liquid, akin to 'blab' and 'bleb'.