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Blob vs Skerrick - What's the difference?

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Blob is a related term of skerrick.


As nouns the difference between blob and skerrick

is that blob is (databases) while skerrick is (british) a very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative and chiefly in british and australian english.

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

    skerrick

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A very small amount or portion, particularly used in the negative and chiefly in British and Australian English.
  • * 2007, Kennedy Warne, Blue Haven , National Geographic (April 2007), 74,
    • "And all I can think is that they're seeing a crumb, a skerrick of what it once was".