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Blot vs Blop - What's the difference?

blot | blop |

As nouns the difference between blot and blop

is that blot is a blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance while blop is blob vague amorphous mass of stuff.

As verbs the difference between blot and blop

is that blot is to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance while blop is to plop land loosely.

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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    blop

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • blob (vague amorphous mass of stuff)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2005 , author=Timothy Kandler Beal , title=Roadside religion: in search of the sacred, the strange, and the substance of faith , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=183 , passage=At the top of each is a piece of broken glass embedded in a blop of concrete. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2007 , author= Mark Haskell Smith , title= Moist: A Novel? , chapter= citation , isbn=0802143350, 9780802143358 , page=123 , passage=He poured a cup of the thick institutional brew, stirred in a packet of chemical sweetener and a blop of Irish creme- flavored nondairy additive...}}

    Verb

    (blopp)
  • To plop (land loosely)