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ロングマン現代英英辞典よりblobblob /blɒb $ blɑːb/ noun [countable]
1 LIQUIDa very small round mass of a liquid or sticky substanceblob of
a blob of honey2 SEEsomething that cannot be clearly seen, especially because it is far away
Without a telescope, the comet will look like a fuzzy blob.コーパスの例blob• Blobs of wax had dripped from the candle onto the table cloth.• Rita dropped a blob of paint on the new carpet.• Put a blob of glue on each surface and carefully press together.• Then I saw a blob of something floating in the water.• Astronomers say the comet will look like a fuzzy blob in the southwestern sky.• A big pink blob of a face was at the window, peering in at him.• Thirty-two-year-old Mike Keneally managed to transform himself from a 28-stone blob into a 14-stone hunk.• And then she picked up the map and stared at the blobs of green and yellow in the Aegean Sea.• Some were no more than motionless translucent blobs.• All I could see, as usual, with my untrained eye, were blobs and shadows.語源 blob (1700-1800) Probably from blob “bubble” ((16-19 centuries)), perhaps from the sound made by the lips when producing a bubble
