blob
/blɒb/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A score of zero.
- To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
- To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
- To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
- To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
- Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).
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