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blob
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bl?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
- (US) IPA(key): /bl?b/
- Homophone: BLOB
Etymology 1
Possibly formed through mimesis, similarly to bleb and blubber.
Noun
blob (plural blobs)
- 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.
- 1869: Norman Lockyer et al, Nature
- Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment.
- 1895: The Annual of the British School at Athens
- It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
- 1869: Norman Lockyer et al, Nature
- (astronomy) A large cloud of gas.
- Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob (a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy).
- (dialect) 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.
- (sports, slang) A score of zero.
- 1925, Punch (volume 168, page 561)
- 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."
- 1925, Punch (volume 168, page 561)
Derived terms
- bloblike
- blobby
Translations
See also
- cluster
Verb
blob (third-person singular simple present blobs, present participle blobbing, simple past and past participle blobbed)
- (transitive) To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
- 1957, "War of Nerves," Time, 7 October, 1957, [3]
- […] a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home.
- 1957, "War of Nerves," Time, 7 October, 1957, [3]
- (transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
- 1959, "The Big Appel," Time, 7 December, 1959, [5]
- Asked to do a mural in the coffee room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors […]
- 1959, "The Big Appel," Time, 7 December, 1959, [5]
- (intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
- 1964, A. S. Byatt, The Shadow of the Sun, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1991, Chapter Three, p. 47,
- 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.
- 2013, Marcus Berkmann, "Blood and gore of the real 'who dunnits'," Review of Silent Witnesses by Nigel McCrery, Daily Mail, 22 August, 2013, [6]
- […] whether the blood has splashed, or blobbed, or trickled, can reveal whether the victim was killed here or moved afterwards.
- 1964, A. S. Byatt, The Shadow of the Sun, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1991, Chapter Three, p. 47,
- (intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
blob (plural blobs)
- Alternative spelling of BLOB
References
Anagrams
- Lobb
blob From the web:
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- what blobfish eat
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- what blobfish look like
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- what's blob storage
- what's blob data
fragment
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere, present active infinitive of frang? (“I break”). See also fraction.
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /?f?æ?m?nt/
- (verb) IPA(key): /f?æ??m?nt/, /?f?æ?m?nt/
Noun
fragment (plural fragments)
- A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
- (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
- (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
- (Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the
#
sign.
Related terms
- fragmental
Translations
Verb
fragment (third-person singular simple present fragments, present participle fragmenting, simple past and past participle fragmented)
- (intransitive) To break apart.
- (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
- (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
Synonyms
- fragmentize
Antonyms
- defragment
Derived terms
- fragmentation
- defragmentation
- defragmenter
Translations
Further reading
- fragment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fragment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- fragment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /f????ment/
- (Central) IPA(key): /f????men/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /f?a??ment/
Noun
fragment m (plural fragments)
- a fragment
Derived terms
- fragment d'Okazaki
Czech
Etymology
From Latin fragmentum.
Noun
fragment m
- fragment (portion or segment of an object)
Related terms
- See frakce
Further reading
- fragment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- fragment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: frag?ment
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
fragment n (plural fragmenten, diminutive fragmentje n)
- a fragment
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangere (“to break”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?a?.m??/
- Homophone: fragments
- Hyphenation: frag?ment
Noun
fragment m (plural fragments)
- fragment
Derived terms
- fragmentaire
- fragmenter
Related terms
- fraction
Further reading
- “fragment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragmentum
Noun
fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment or fragmenter, definite plural fragmenta or fragmentene)
- a fragment
Related terms
- fragmentere
References
- “fragment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragmentum
Noun
fragment n (definite singular fragmentet, indefinite plural fragment, definite plural fragmenta)
- a fragment
Related terms
- fragmentere
References
- “fragment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fra?.m?nt/
Noun
fragment m inan
- fragment
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French fragment and its source, Latin fragmentum.
Noun
fragment n (plural fragmente)
- fragment
Declension
Synonyms
- bucat?, frântur?
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fr??ment/
- Hyphenation: frag?ment
Noun
fràgment m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)
- fragment
Declension
References
- “fragment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fragmentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
fragment n
- a fragment
Declension
Related terms
- fragmentarisk
- fragmentera
- fragmentering
- fragmentisera
- fragmentisering
References
- fragment in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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