The meaning of Blob

noun

A solid or hollow spherical or egg-shaped object that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game.

Usage examples:

A cricket ball

verb

(in cricket) a delivery of the ball by the bowler to the batsman.

Usage examples:

His half century came off only forty balls

noun

A formal social gathering for dancing.

Usage examples:

Anne danced with the captain at a fancy-dress ball

noun

A small piece of glass, stone, or similar material that is threaded with others to make a necklace or rosary or sewn on to fabric.

Usage examples:

Long strings of beads

verb

Decorate or cover with beads.

Usage examples:

I beaded the jacket by hand

verb

Smear or daub with a sticky substance.

Usage examples:

A dozen maidens, all bedaubed with paint

verb

To cover something very roughly with something sticky or dirty

Usage examples:

The child's face was bedaubed with chocolate.

noun

A thin sphere of liquid enclosing air or another gas.

Usage examples:

We'd shake up a piece of soap in a tin of warm water and blow bubbles

verb

(of a liquid) form rising bubbles of gas or air.

Usage examples:

A pot of coffee bubbled away on the stove

noun

A ball of air in a liquid or on its surface, or in the air

Usage examples:

When water begins to boil, small bubbles form around the edge of the pot., the water in the pot beg…

verb

Press against (something) lightly several times with a piece of absorbent material in order to clean or dry it or to apply a substance.

Usage examples:

He dabbed his mouth with his napkin

noun

A small amount of something.

Usage examples:

She licked a dab of chocolate from her finger

noun

A small, commercially important flatfish found chiefly in the north atlantic.

Usage examples:

Even though this rig is especially good for gurnards, it also proves superbly successful for dabs, …

verb

Carelessly coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance.

Usage examples:

The walls were daubed with splashes of paint

noun

A patch or smear of a thick or sticky substance.

Usage examples:

A daub of paint

verb

Let or make (something) fall vertically.

Usage examples:

The fire was caused by someone dropping a lighted cigarette

noun

A small round or pear-shaped portion of liquid that hangs or falls or adheres to a surface.

Usage examples:

The first drops of rain splashed on the ground

verb

Let fall to the ground

noun

A very small drop of a liquid.

Usage examples:

Droplets of water

noun

A very small drop of a liquid

noun

A lump of a semi-liquid substance.

Usage examples:

Thick globs of mozzarella cheese

noun

A small round particle of a substance; a drop.

Usage examples:

Globules of fat

noun

A small ball of something, especially a drop of liquid

Usage examples:

The disease is caused by globules of fat blocking the blood vessels.

noun

A hard, lustrous spherical mass, typically white or bluish-grey, formed within the shell of a pearl oyster or other bivalve mollusc and highly prized as a gem.

Usage examples:

A linen garment decorated with pearls

verb

Form drops resembling pearls.

Usage examples:

Raindrops pearled on water-soaked windowpanes

noun

Another term for picot.

noun

A small, rounded, compressed mass of a substance.

Usage examples:

Fish food pellets

verb

Form (a substance) into pellets.

Usage examples:

The business made its name pelleting sugar beet seed

noun

A small, hard, ball-shaped or tube-shaped piece of any substance

Usage examples:

Shotgun pellets, plastic pellets

noun

A small round mass of solid medicine for swallowing whole.

Usage examples:

An overdose of sleeping pills

verb

(of knitted fabric) form small balls of fluff on its surface.

Usage examples:

Synthetics can pill but otherwise wear fairly well

verb

Hit or strike with the palm of the hand or a flat object.

Usage examples:

My sister slapped my face

noun

A blow with the palm of the hand or a flat object.

Usage examples:

He gave her a slap across her cheek

adverb

Suddenly and directly, especially with great force.

Usage examples:

Storming out of her room, she went slap into luke

verb

(of a liquid) spill or flow over the edge of a container, typically as a result of careless handling.

Usage examples:

Water slopped over the edge of the sink

noun

Waste water from a kitchen, bathroom, or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand.

Usage examples:

Sink slops

noun

A workman's loose outer garment.

verb

Coat or mark (something) messily or carelessly with a greasy or sticky substance.

Usage examples:

His face was smeared with dirt

noun

A mark or streak of a greasy or sticky substance.

Usage examples:

There was an oil smear on his jacket

verb

Smudge or soil by smudging

noun

A sound made by something striking or falling into liquid.

Usage examples:

We hit the water with a mighty splash

verb

Cause (liquid) to strike or fall on something in irregular drops.

Usage examples:

She splashed cold water on to her face

verb

To scatter liquid or to cause liquid to scatter through the air or onto something

Usage examples:

[ t ] she splashed her face with cold water., [ i ] kids love to splash around in mud puddles., a s…

noun

A small round or roundish mark, differing in colour or texture from the surface around it.

Usage examples:

Ladybirds have black spots on their red wing covers

verb

Short for spotlight.

verb

A point located with respect to surface features of some region