different between blot vs infamy

English

Etymology

From Middle English blot (“blot, spot, stain, blemish”). Perhaps from Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”) (only attested in documents from after Old Norse transitioned to Icelandic blettur), or from Old French bloche (“clod of earth”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bl?t/

Noun

blot (plural blots)

1. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
   • 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song

     I withdrew my subscription by help of a blot, / And so might discover or gain by the plot:

   • 1918, Siegfried Sassoon, “The Death-Bed” in The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, London: Heinemann, p. 95,^[1]

     […] He was blind; he could not see the stars

     Glinting among the wraiths of wandering cloud;

     Queer blots of colour, purple, scarlet, green,

     Flickered and faded in his drowning eyes.

2. (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
3. (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
4. (backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.

Derived terms

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Verb

blot (third-person singular simple present blots, present participle blotting, simple past and past participle blotted)

1. (transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
2. (intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.

   This paper blots easily.

3. (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
4. (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
   • 1566, George Gascoigne, Dan Bartholmew of Bath

     The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore, […]

5. (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
6. (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
   • 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert

     Blot not thy Innocence with guiltle?s Blood.

7. (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.

   to blot out a word or a sentence
8. (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
   • 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis

     He ?ung how Earth blots the Moons gilded Wane, […]

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Bolt, bolt

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German bl?t (“bare”), from Proto-Germanic *blautaz (“void, emaciated, soft”), cognate with German bloß (“bare”) and Danish blød (“soft”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?l?d?]

Adjective

blot (plural and definite singular attributive blotte)

1. (dated) mere, very

Adverb

blot

1. (slightly formal) only, merely

Synonyms

• kun, bare

Etymology 2

Borrowed Old Norse blót, from Proto-Germanic *bl?t?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?lo?d?]

Noun

blot

1. a sacrifice (especially a blood sacrifice by heathens)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?l?d?]

Verb

blot

1. imperative of blotte

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?lo?d?]

Verb

blot

1. imperative of blote

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German bl?t (“bare”), from Proto-Germanic *blautaz (“void, emaciated, soft”), cognate with German bloß (“bare”) and Danish blød (“soft”). Spelling variant of bloot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?blo??t]

Adverb

blot

1. only, merely

Synonyms

• blots, man

References

• Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, ?ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)

Luxembourgish

Adjective

blot

1. neuter nominative of blo
2. neuter accusative of blo

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bl?t?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blo?t/

Noun

bl?t n

1. a sacrifice, especially a blood sacrifice by heathens

English

Etymology

From late Middle English infamie, from Old French infamie, from Latin ?nf?mia (“infamy”), from ?nf?mis (“infamous”), from in- (“not”) + f?ma (“fame, renown”). Displaced native Old English unhl?sa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nf?mi/
• Hyphenation: in?fa?my

Noun

infamy (countable and uncountable, plural infamies)

1. The state of being infamous.
2. A reputation as being evil.
   • December 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Infamy Speech, [1]

     Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

3. A reprehensible occurrence or situation.
4. (law) A stigma attaching to a person's character that disqualifies them from being a witness.

Related terms

• fame
• infamous

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