Blot vs Dry - What's the difference?
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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
Free from liquid or moisture.
* Addison
* Prescott
(chemistry) Free of water in any state; anhydrous.
Thirsty; needing drink.
* (William Shakespeare)
(of an alcoholic beverage) Lacking sugar or low in sugar; not sweet.
Maintaining temperance; void or abstinent from alcoholic beverages.
(of a person or joke) Subtly humorous, yet without mirth.
* (Washington Irving)
(of a scientist or his laboratory) Not working with chemical or biological matter, but, rather, doing computations.
(masonry) Built without mortar; dry-stone.
*
(of animals) Not giving milk.
Lacking interest or amusement; barren; unembellished.
* (Alexander Pope)
(fine arts) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or lacking delicate contours and soft transitions of colour.
To lose moisture.
To remove moisture from.
(ambitransitive, figurative) To cease or cause to cease.
As a noun blot
is a norse pagan ritual sacrifice, now performed by the followers of asatru.As an acronym dry is
(computing).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.
Derived terms
* blotting paper * blot outAnagrams
* ----dry
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) drye, drie, dri, drige, dryge, . See also (l), (l), (l).Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- The weather, we agreed, was too dry for the season.
- Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
- Give the dry fool drink.
- He was rather a dry , shrewd kind of body.
- These epistles will become less dry , more susceptible of ornament.
Synonyms
* (free from liquid or moisture) arid, parchedAntonyms
* (free from liquid or moisture) wet * (abstinent from alcohol) wet * wetDerived terms
* bone dry * dry as a bone * dry as a dead dingo’s donger * dry cough * dry hole * dry ice * drily * dry run * dryly * dryness * dry spell * drywall * dry weight * like watching paint dryEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
- The clothes dried on the line.
- Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
- Their sources of income dried up.
- The stream of chatter dried up.