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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an indistinct shapeless form v
1: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth" [syn: spot, fleck, blob, blot]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English (Scots) Date: 15th century 1. a. a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick b. a daub or spot of color 2. something ill-defined or amorphous II. transitive verb (blobbed; blobbing) Date: 15th century to mark with blobs ; splotch

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a small roundish mass; a drop of matter. 2 a drop of liquid. 3 a spot of colour. 4 Cricket sl. a score of 0. Etymology: imit.: cf. BLEB

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blob Blob (bl[o^]b), n. [See Bleb.] 1. Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister. --Wright. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(blobs) 1. A blob of thick or sticky liquid is a small, often round, amount of it. (INFORMAL) ...a blob of chocolate mousse... N-COUNT: usu with supp 2. You can use blob to refer to something that you cannot see very clearly, for example because it is in the distance. (INFORMAL) You could just see vague blobs of faces. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Bubble, blobber, bleb, blister, vesicle.

Moby Thesaurus

ball, balloon, bilge, bit, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, boll, bolus, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, chine, clump, condyle, convex, dab, dowel, drop, droplet, ear, ellipsoid, flange, flap, gall, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, gob, gobbet, gout, handle, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, peg, pellet, prolate spheroid, rib, ridge, ring, rondure, shoulder, smidgen, smidgin, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, stud, style, tab, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt