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Blot vs Pollution - What's the difference?

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Blot is a related term of pollution.


As nouns the difference between blot and pollution

is that blot is a norse pagan ritual sacrifice, now performed by the followers of asatru while pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.

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

    * ----

    pollution

    English

    (wikipedia pollution)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
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  • Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
  • (archaic) Physical defilement.
  • (medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
  • * 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon'', Blanchard, page 492 defines ''POLLUTION as:
    • The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution'' or ''Masturbation'' (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name ''Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.

    Synonyms

    * soilage * (masturbation) self-pollution

    Antonyms

    * conservation * purity

    Derived terms

    * air pollution * light pollution * noise pollution * self-pollution * soil pollution * water pollution

    Related terms

    * polluter