Blob vs Blip - What's the difference?
blob | blip |
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.
* 1869 : Norman Lockyer et al, Nature
* 1895 : The Annual of the British School at Athens
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
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.[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422151828.htm]
(dialect) A bubble, a bleb.
A small freshwater fish (Uranidea richardsoni ); the miller's thumb.
A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
* 1985 , Frederick Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol
* 2004 , Asaf Degani, Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces Beyond 2001
A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.
* 2000 , Ken Norton, Going the Distance
* 2002 , Richard Strozzi-Heckler, In Search of the Warrior Spirit: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets
A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
* 2003 , Brett Grodeck, The First Year - HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
* 2003 , Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench
To skip over or ignore (with out ).
* 1990 , Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Defining the Frontier: A Policy Challenge
* 1996 , John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake
To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
* 2003 , Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
* 2005 , Craig Lansford, Tales from Salome: Broken Angel
As nouns the difference between blob and blip
is that blob is 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 while blip is a small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.As a verb blip is
to skip over or ignore (with out).blob
English
Noun
(en noun)- Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment .
- It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs , which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
- But there, on the very top, is a hollow full of water, with a sandy bottom; with a blob of jelly stuck to the side, and some mussels.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again.
- At 6:45 pm, the chief officer saw a blip on the radar, approximately seven nautical miles away.
- Blip ..Blip..Blip..Blip There was that annoying noise again.
- The little “blip ” sound that happens when a balloon is shot down becomes a duet with the player. “Blip” “Damn!” “Blip” “Damn!”
- There's a chance this is just a viral blip , an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment.
- As a cell moves through the aperture it causes a blip (a brief change) in the voltage when the nonconductive cell briefly displaces the conductive medium.
Verb
(en-verb)- If we look, for example, at Laramie County, with a population density of 26.8 per square mile, if you blipped out Cheyenne, Laramie County would change significantly.
- He listened but his mind heard only words and blipped out meanings.
- And yet, they pulsed and glowed and shimmied and flared and stared at you, just like now—staring in at his and Whitey's own lights as they blipped past on the expressway....
- The screen blipped out as the connection was terminated.... A few seconds passed before the screen again blipped to life.