blob

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blob - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Blob \Blob\ (bl[o^]b), n. [See Bleb.]
     1. Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of
        something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
        --Wright.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Zool.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni);
        the miller's thumb.
        [1913 Webster]

blob - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  blob
      n 1: an indistinct shapeless form
      v 1: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
           [syn: spot, fleck, blob, blot]

blob - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  BLOB
  
     1. binary large object.
  
     2. <architecture> blitter object.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

blob - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  BLOB
  
  
     1. n. [acronym: Binary Large OBject] Used by database people to refer
     to any random large block of bits that needs to be stored in a
     database, such as a picture or sound file. The essential point about
  a
     BLOB is that it's an object that cannot be interpreted within the
     database itself.
  
     2. v. To mailbomb someone by sending a BLOB to him/her; esp. used
  as
     a mild threat. "If that program crashes again, I'm going to BLOB the
     core dump to you."
  

blob - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  BLOB
         Binary Large OBject
         

blob - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "blob":
     ball, balloon, bilge, bit, bladder, blain, bleb, blister, boll,
     bolus, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulge, bulla,
     bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, chine, clump, condyle, convex,
     dab, dowel, drop, droplet, ear, ellipsoid, flange, flap, gall,
     geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gnarl, gob,
     gobbet, gout, handle, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, knob, knot,
     knur, knurl, lip, loop, lump, mole, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin,
     nubble, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, papilloma, peg,
     pellet, prolate spheroid, rib, ridge, ring, rondure, shoulder,
     smidgen, smidgin, sphere, spheroid, spherule, spine, stud, style,
     tab, tubercle, tubercule, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt