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Blob vs Ooze - What's the difference?

blob | ooze |

As nouns the difference between blob and ooze

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 ooze is potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.

As a verb ooze is

to be secreted or slowly leak.

blob

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
    • Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment .
  • * 1895 : The Annual of the British School at Athens
    • 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.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • 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.
  • 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.

    • See also

    * cluster

    References

    ooze

    English

    Etymology 1

    * ()'' (etyl) . * ()'' (etyl) ''wosen'', from ''wose 'sap'; see above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.
  • Secretion, humour.
  • A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.

    • Verb

  • To be secreted or slowly leak.
  • * 1988 , David Drake, The Sea Hag , Baen Publishing Enterprises (2003), ISBN 0671654241, unnumbered page:
    • Pale slime oozed through all the surfaces; some of it dripped from the ceiling and burned Dennis as badly as the blazing sparks had done a moment before.
  • * 1994 , Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life , Vintage Books (1995), ISBN 9780679740087, unnumbered page:
    • He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes.
  • * 2011 , Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch , Flux (2011), ISBN 9780738725826, page 278:
    • Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.
  • (figuratively) To give off a sense of (something).
  • * 1989 , Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour , Open Road Integrated Media (2011), ISBN 9781453231548, unnumbered page:
    • "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.
  • * 1999 , Tamsin Blanchard, Antonio Berardi: Sex and Sensibility , Watson-Guptill Publications (1999), ISBN 9780823012077, page 16:
    • There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 21 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Newcastle had failed to penetrate a typically organised Stoke backline in the opening stages but, once Cabaye and then Cisse breached their defence, Newcastle oozed confidence and controlled the game with a swagger expected of a top-four team.}}

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) wose'', from (etyl) '''' 'mud, mire', from (etyl) . More at virus.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My son i' the ooze is bedded.
  • A piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.
  • The liquor of a tanning vat.
    • English terms with multiple etymologies