Blob vs Comet - What's the difference?
blob | comet |
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.
(astronomy) A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun.
A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body.
Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
As nouns the difference between blob and comet
is that blob is (databases) while comet is (astronomy) a celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the sun.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.