blob

Word family

blob /blɒb $ blɑːb/ noun [countableC]

1 LIQUIDa very small round mass of a liquid or sticky substance 一滴，一小团

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a blob of honey

一滴蜂蜜

2 SEEsomething that cannot be clearly seen, especially because it is far away 〔尤因离得很远而〕看不清的东西

Without a telescope, the comet will look like a fuzzy blob.

不用望远镜的话，那颗彗星看上去就像一个模糊不清的亮点。

Examples from the Corpus

blob• Blobs of wax had dripped from the candle onto the table cloth.• Rita dropped a blob of paint on the new carpet.• Put a blob of glue on each surface and carefully press together.• Then I saw a blob of something floating in the water.• Astronomers say the comet will look like a fuzzy blob in the southwestern sky.• A big pink blob of a face was at the window, peering in at him.• Thirty-two-year-old Mike Keneally managed to transform himself from a 28-stone blob into a 14-stone hunk.• And then she picked up the map and stared at the blobs of green and yellow in the Aegean Sea.• Some were no more than motionless translucent blobs.• All I could see, as usual, with my untrained eye, were blobs and shadows.

Origin blob

(1700-1800) Probably from blob “bubble” ((16-19 centuries)), perhaps from the sound made by the lips when producing a bubble

blob noun

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