Blob \Blob\ (bl[o^]b), n. [See Bleb.]
   1. Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of
      something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
      --Wright.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Zool.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni);
      the miller's thumb.
      [1913 Webster]

	

	blob
    n 1: an indistinct shapeless form
    v 1: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
         [syn: spot, fleck, blob, blot]

	

	94 Moby Thesaurus words for "blob":
   ball, balloon, bilge, bit, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, boll,
   bolus, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla,
   bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, chine, clump, condyle, convex,
   dab, dowel, drop, droplet, ear, ellipsoid, flange, flap, gall,
   geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, gob,
   gobbet, gout, handle, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knob, knot,
   knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin,
   nubble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, peg,
   pellet, prolate spheroid, rib, ridge, ring, rondure, shoulder,
   smidgen, smidgin, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, stud, style,
   tab, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt

	

	BLOB
       Binary Large OBject

	

	BLOB


    1. n. [acronym: Binary Large OBject] Used by database people to refer to
    any random large block of bits that needs to be stored in a database, such
    as a picture or sound file. The essential point about a BLOB is that it's
    an object that cannot be interpreted within the database itself.

    2. v. To mailbomb someone by sending a BLOB to him/her; esp. used as a
    mild threat. ?If that program crashes again, I'm going to BLOB the core
    dump to you.?

	

	BLOB

   1. binary large object.

   2.  blitter object.

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