Stair vs Blot - What's the difference?
stair | blot | Related terms |
A single step in a staircase.
A series of steps, a staircase.
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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
Stair is a related term of blot.
As nouns the difference between stair and blot
is that stair is a single step in a staircase while blot is a norse pagan ritual sacrifice, now performed by the followers of asatru.stair
English
Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Stairs'' and ''stair are used to refer to a single staircase, mostly interchangeably in the UK.Derived terms
* above-stairs * upstairs * downstairs * stair-stepping * staircase * stairs * stairway * stairwellSee also
* ladder * landingAnagrams
* ----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.
