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Blob vs Fizz - What's the difference?

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Blob is a related term of fizz.


As nouns the difference between blob and fizz

is that blob is (databases) while fizz is an emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.

As a verb fizz is

to emit bubbles.

blob

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
  • * 1869 : Norman Lockyer et al, Nature
    • Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment .
  • * 1895 : The Annual of the British School at Athens
    • It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs , which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • But there, on the very top, is a hollow full of water, with a sandy bottom; with a blob of jelly stuck to the side, and some mussels.
  • In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422151828.htm]
  • (dialect) A bubble, a bleb.
  • A small freshwater fish (Uranidea richardsoni ); the miller's thumb.

    • See also

    * cluster

    References

    fizz

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.
    • I poured a cola and waited for the fizz to settle down before topping off the glass.
  • The sound of such an emission.
    • Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.
  • A carbonated beverage.
    • Nathan ordered an orange fizz from the soda jerk at the counter.

    Synonyms

    * (emission of bubbles) effervescence, foam, froth, head * (sound of bubbles) bubble, fizzle, hiss, sputter * (carbonated beverage) pop, seltzer, soda, tonic

    Verb

  • To emit bubbles.
  • To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.
    • the fizzing fuse of a bomb
  • To shoot or project something moving at great velocity.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.}}
  • To travel at a great velocity, producing a sound caused by the speed.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Chelsea 2 -03 Blackburn Rovers , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Terry came close to doubling Chelsea's lead when his header from Lampard's mis-hit volley fizzed inches past the upright.}}

    Synonyms

    * (emit bubbles) bubble, effervesce, foam, froth * (make bubbling sound) fizzle, hiss, sizzle, sputter

    Derived terms

    * fizzy