Fleck vs Blob - What's the difference?
fleck | blob |
A flake
A lock, as of wool.
A small spot or streak; a speckle.
* Longfellow
* Tennyson
To mark with small spots
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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
* 1895 : The Annual of the British School at Athens
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
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.
As nouns the difference between fleck and blob
is that fleck is a flake while blob is 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.As a verb fleck
is to mark with small spots.As a proper noun Fleck
is {{surname|lang=en}.fleck
English
Noun
(en noun)- A sunny fleck .
- Life is dashed with flecks of sin.
Verb
(en verb)blob
English
Noun
(en noun)- Only the outermost blob on either side in map 2 displays misalignment .
- 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.
- 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.