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Blote vs Blot - What's the difference?

blote | blot |

As verbs the difference between blote and blot

is that blote is to cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat while blot is to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.

As a noun blot is

a blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.

blote

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
  • (Webster 1913) ----

    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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