different between blob vs zerg
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:
- what blobfish actually look like
- what blob are you
- what blobfish eat
- what blob means
- what blobfish look like
- what blobfish look like in the water
- what's blob storage
- what's blob data
zerg
English
Etymology
From the game StarCraft (1998), in which the easily mass-produced Zerg units encourage such a strategy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /z??(?)?/
Verb
zerg (third-person singular simple present zergs, present participle zerging, simple past and past participle zerged)
- (slang, video games, strategy games) To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences.
- 2002, "Wolfie", Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch (on newsgroup alt.games.everquest)
- You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players. They don't have to zerg lower tier encounters just like the lowest tier guilds doesn't have to zerg orc camp 1 in EC. But, at the top end, it's still zerg tactics.
- 2003, "George", Finding groups to mission/hunt/other experience with (on newsgroup alt.games.starwarsgalaxies)
- The scale and lack of focused content doesn't facilitate this grouping as well as some other games. The good side of that is you don't get the "wonderful" experience of zerging around DF with everyone else waiting for something to spawn.
- 2008, "neithskye", AV after the last changes... (on newsgroup alt.games.warcraft)
- No one ever did D (or just 3-4 people tried), we just zerged, and we would lose every single AV.
- 2002, "Wolfie", Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch (on newsgroup alt.games.everquest)
Synonyms
- cheese, rush
Translations
Noun
zerg (plural zergs)
- (slang, video games) A very large group of units or players.
Synonyms
- blob
Anagrams
- Grez
zerg From the web:
- what zerg units detect stealth
- what zerg means
- what zerg means in wow
- zerg what does it mean
- what is zerg rush
- what does zerg mean in rust
- zergnet
- what do zerg eat
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