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blob

/blɒb/ · noun

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
  3. A bubble; a bleb.
  4. A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
  5. The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
  6. A score of zero.
  7. To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
  8. To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
  9. To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
  10. To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
  11. Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).

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Sources

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