Daub vs Blot - What's the difference?
daub | blot | Synonyms |
Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction .
A soft coating of mud, plaster etc.
A crude or amateurish painting.
To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
To apply something to (a surface) in hasty or crude strokes.
* Bible, Exodus ii. 3
To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
* I. Watts
* Dryden
To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
* Shakespeare
To flatter excessively or glossy.
* Smollett
To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
* Dryden
A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
* Shakespeare
(by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
* Shakespeare
(biochemistry) The Southern blot analysis (and derived Northern and Western) analytical techniques.
(backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.
to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
to soak up or absorb liquid.
To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
* Gascoigne
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
* Shakespeare
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
* Rowe
To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out .
* Dryden
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
* Cowley
In transitive terms the difference between daub and blot
is that daub is to paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner while blot is to obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.daub
English
(wikipedia daub)Noun
Verb
(en verb)- The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.
- She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch.
- If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colours, the vulgar admire it as an excellent piece.
- a lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over
- So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue.
- I can safely say, however, that, without any daubing at all, I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant.
- Let him be daubed with lace.
Anagrams
*blot
English
Noun
(en noun)- inky blots
- This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
Verb
- This paper blots easily.
- The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore.
- It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
- Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
- to blot out a word or a sentence
- One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
- He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.