Blots Means
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Blot means to dry, soak up or remove. An example of to blot is to wipe up tipped over milk with a paper towel.
- The meaning of blot varies according to its noun and verb usage. In its noun form a blot could be defined as a stain or spot that is caused by some sort of discolouring substance like ink or paint. It could also mean a blemish on one's reputation or character. It could also be the Northern, Western or Southern blot analysis methods.
- Noun a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper. A blemish on a person's character or reputation: He had been haunted by a blot on his past. Verb (used with object), blotted, blotting.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- nounGames An exposed piece in backgammon.
- nounArchaic A weak point.
- noun A spot or a stain caused by a discoloring substance.
- noun An association of disgrace with one's character or reputation. synonym: stain.
- noun The Northern, Southern, or Western blot analyses.
- intransitive verb To soak up or dry with absorbent material. Often used with up.
- intransitive verb To make obscure or invisible; hide. Often used with out.
- intransitive verb To render invisible or unreadable by marking; obliterate. Often used with out.
- intransitive verb To remove or block from personal memory or public remembrance. Often used with out.
- intransitive verb To spot or stain, as with a discoloring substance.
- intransitive verb To bring moral disgrace to.
- intransitive verb To spill or spread in a spot or stain.
- intransitive verb To become blotted, soaked up, or absorbed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In backgammon: A single exposed piece which is liable to be forfeited or taken up.
- noun The exposure of a piece in this way.
- To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink, mud, or any discoloring matter.
- Figuratively, to stain as with disgrace or infamy; tarnish; disgrace; disfigure.
- To obliterate so as to render invisible or not distinguishable, as writing or letters with ink: generally with out: as, to
blot out a word or a sentence. - Hence To efface; cause to be unseen or forgotten; destroy; annihilate: followed by out: as, to
blot out a crime, or the remembrance of anything. - To darken or obscure; eclipse.
- To dry by means of blotting-paper or the like.
- To obliterate something written.
- To become blotted or stained: as, this paper blots easily.
- noun A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur; a disfiguring stain or mark: as, “one universal blot,”
- noun A scoring out; an erasure or obliteration, as in a writing.
- noun A spot upon character or reputation; a moral stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
- noun Imputed disgrace or stain; defamation: as, to cast a blot upon one's character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To take a blot.
- transitive verb To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- transitive verb To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- transitive verb To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
- transitive verb To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with
out . Often figuratively. - transitive verb To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
- transitive verb To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
- noun A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
- noun An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
- noun A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
- noun An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
- noun A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
- noun A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
blemish ,spot orstain made by acoloured substance . - nounby extension A stain on someone's
reputation orcharacter ; adisgrace . - nounbiochemistry The
Southern blot analysis (and derived Northern and Western)analytical techniques . - nounbackgammon an
exposed piece inbackgammon . - verbtransitive to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
- verbintransitive to
soak up, orabsorb liquid. - verb to
hide ,obscure orobliterate something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dry (ink) with blotting paper
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
A regular salt blot from the farm store is about $6 and the Deer Cane was $7.99.
A regular salt blot from the farm store is about $6 and the Deer Cane was $7.99.
Fortunately my younger brother was able to remove this blot from the family escutcheon by joining the Canadian Army in 1941.
It will be a relief to the whole legal profession that at last what the Master of the Rolls called a blot on our jurisprudence has been removed.
The distance was great, but something familiar in the lines of the figure -- when he presently got near enough to see that the blot was a pony and rider -- made his blood leap with eager anticipation; and he spoke sharply to Patches, sending him forward at a brisk lope.
Two pleaded guilty, and the third was convicted after trial, in a case that The Republican newspaper of Springfield described as a 'blot on the whole city.'
As the first African American person to attain the highest office in the United States, President Obama cannot afford to have ANYBODY with a smudge on their record (never mind a 'blot').
At the hearing, the governor called the convictions a 'blot' on the record of an accomplished artist for 'something he may or may not have done.'
If that seems a harsh conclusion, consider the one public 'blot' we already know about concerning Gen. McChrystal's war record.
You have said you regret the 'blot' on your record caused by your parroting spurious intelligence at the U.N. to justify war on Iraq.
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