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Alotted vs Blotted - What's the difference?

alotted | blotted |

As verbs the difference between alotted and blotted

is that alotted is {{alternative form of |allotted|lang=en}} Past tense of allot while blotted is past tense of blot.

As an adjective alotted

is distributed or apportioned.

alotted

English

Alternative forms

allotted

Verb

(head)
  • (allot)
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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • distributed or apportioned
  • assigned or designated
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    • , date=2010-10-15 , year= , first= , last= , author=Adam Serwer , authorlink= , title=Thiessen's Misleading Attack on Due Process , site=The Washington Post citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2013-04-21 , passage=… that the Bush administration considered holding him as an enemy combatant after serving his alotted sentence. }}

    blotted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blot)

    • Anagrams

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    blot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • inky blots
  • (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
  • (biochemistry) The Southern blot analysis (and derived Northern and Western) analytical techniques.
  • (backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.

    • Verb

  • to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
  • to soak up or absorb liquid.
    • This paper blots easily.
  • To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
  • To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
  • * Gascoigne
    • The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore.
  • To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
  • To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
  • * Rowe
    • Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
  • To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out .
    • to blot out a word or a sentence
  • * Dryden
    • One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
  • To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
  • * Cowley
    • He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.

    Derived terms

    * blotting paper * blot out

    Anagrams

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