blob

«blob» in Mova's school dictionary: A small round lump of a thick liquid, like paint, glue or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a blob, blobs); verb (blob, blobs, blobbed, blobbing — informal)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small round lump of a thick liquid, like paint, glue or jam. tree →

2) A shape or thing that is hard to see clearly, without a clear outline. tree →

3) (verb, informal) To put small lumps of something somewhere. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in art lessons (a blob of paint), cooking (a blob of cream) and science (a blob of jelly). In stories it can describe a strange shape or a slimy monster. Phrases: a blob of glue, blob of cream, just a blob.

examples

• Put a blob of glue on each corner. tree →
• I dropped a blob of jam on my shirt. tree →
• The jellyfish looked like a clear blob in the water. tree →
• Through the fog the house was just a grey blob. tree →
• Add a blob of cream to the top of the pudding. tree →
• The slimy blob monster crept across the floor. tree →
• She blobbed paint onto the paper to make flowers. tree →

note

Countable: blobs. Informal word; in science you may say "drop" or "lump". Past of the verb: blobbed (double b).

In the corpora

• Octopuses and squid squirt dark ink and jet away, and some squid make an ink blob shaped like themselves as a decoy.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «blob» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.