blob
noun
[ blɒb ]
• a drop of a thick liquid or viscous substance.
• "blobs of paint"
Similar:
drop,
droplet,
globule,
bead,
ball,
bubble,
pellet,
pill,
pearl,
glob,
blob
verb
• put small drops of thick liquid or spots of colour on.
• "her nose was blobbed with paint"
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a bubble): perhaps symbolic of a drop of liquid; compare with blotch, blubber1, and plop.
blob
noun
• a collection of data in binary form, typically a multimedia item, stored as a single entity in a database management system.
Origin:
1980s: from blob1 (in the sense ‘indeterminate mass or shape’); later reanalysed as a shortening of binary large object .
