Blob vs Flob - What's the difference?
blob | flob |
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.
(UK, slang) spittle, especially a piece of spittle that has been spat out
(UK, slang) To spit or to gob.
*2010 , Charlie Brooker, The Guardian , 27 Sep 2010:
*:I pointed out that they both looked equally unhappy, and that he was essentially kicking himself. He contemplated this for a moment, then flobbed at me and kicked the weakling slightly harder.
As nouns the difference between blob and flob
is that blob is (databases) while flob is (uk|slang) spittle, especially a piece of spittle that has been spat out.As a verb flob is
(uk|slang) to spit or to gob.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.