Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A spot or a stain caused by a discoloring substance.
- noun An association of disgrace with one's character or reputation. synonym: stain.
- noun The Northern, Southern, or Western blot analyses.
- intransitive verb To soak up or dry with absorbent material. Often used with up.
- intransitive verb To make obscure or invisible; hide. Often used with out.
- intransitive verb To render invisible or unreadable by marking; obliterate. Often used with out.
- intransitive verb To remove or block from personal memory or public remembrance. Often used with out.
- intransitive verb To spot or stain, as with a discoloring substance.
- intransitive verb To bring moral disgrace to.
- intransitive verb To spill or spread in a spot or stain.
- intransitive verb To become blotted, soaked up, or absorbed.
- noun Games An exposed piece in backgammon.
- noun Archaic A weak point.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur; a disfiguring stain or mark: as, “one universal blot,”
- noun A scoring out; an erasure or obliteration, as in a writing.
- noun A spot upon character or reputation; a moral stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
- noun Imputed disgrace or stain; defamation: as, to cast a blot upon one's character.
- To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink, mud, or any discoloring matter.
- Figuratively, to stain as with disgrace or infamy; tarnish; disgrace; disfigure.
- To obliterate so as to render invisible or not distinguishable, as writing or letters with ink: generally with out: as, to
blot out a word or a sentence. - Hence To efface; cause to be unseen or forgotten; destroy; annihilate: followed by out: as, to
blot out a crime, or the remembrance of anything. - To darken or obscure; eclipse.
- To dry by means of blotting-paper or the like.
- To obliterate something written.
- To become blotted or stained: as, this paper blots easily.
- noun In backgammon: A single exposed piece which is liable to be forfeited or taken up.
- noun The exposure of a piece in this way.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To take a blot.
- transitive verb To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
- transitive verb To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
- transitive verb To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
- transitive verb To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with
out . Often figuratively. - transitive verb To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
- transitive verb To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
- noun A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
- noun An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
- noun A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
- noun An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
- noun A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
- noun A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
blemish ,spot orstain made by acoloured substance . - noun by extension A stain on someone's
reputation orcharacter ; adisgrace . - noun biochemistry The
Southern blot analysis (and derived Northern and Western)analytical techniques . - noun backgammon an
exposed piece inbackgammon . - verb transitive to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
- verb intransitive to
soak up, orabsorb liquid. - verb to
hide ,obscure orobliterate something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb dry (ink) with blotting paper
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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A regular salt blot from the farm store is about $6 and the Deer Cane was $7.99.
What do you guys think about Deer Cane or any other store-bought deer attractant. 2009
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A regular salt blot from the farm store is about $6 and the Deer Cane was $7.99.
What do you guys think about Deer Cane or any other store-bought deer attractant. 2009
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Fortunately my younger brother was able to remove this blot from the family escutcheon by joining the Canadian Army in 1941.
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It will be a relief to the whole legal profession that at last what the Master of the Rolls called a blot on our jurisprudence has been removed.
The Monetary Muddle 1976
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The distance was great, but something familiar in the lines of the figure -- when he presently got near enough to see that the blot was a pony and rider -- made his blood leap with eager anticipation; and he spoke sharply to Patches, sending him forward at a brisk lope.
The Range Boss Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
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Two pleaded guilty, and the third was convicted after trial, in a case that The Republican newspaper of Springfield described as a "blot on the whole city."
NYT > Home Page By DAN BARRY 2011
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As the first African American person to attain the highest office in the United States, President Obama cannot afford to have ANYBODY with a smudge on their record (never mind a "blot").
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At the hearing, the governor called the convictions a "blot" on the record of an accomplished artist for "something he may or may not have done."
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If that seems a harsh conclusion, consider the one public "blot" we already know about concerning Gen. McChrystal's war record.
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You have said you regret the "blot" on your record caused by your parroting spurious intelligence at the U.N. to justify war on Iraq.
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