(v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.
(v. i.) To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales.
(n.) One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frequency of antigen-reactive NAbs was about half the frequency of antigen-reactive antibodies found among the BlAbs.
(2) "In the UK, producers tell you not to get drunk and blab the EastEnders storylines in the pub," says Shekoni.
(3) Guy-Man points out that, after all, they have not got this far by blabbing about their plans.
(4) Anyway, this is only a minor indiscretion, compared to some of the blabbing I've done, even when I've been trying very hard not to.
(5) I once blabbed about Z's boyfriend, in front of her other boyfriend, even though, as I entered the room, I was reminding myself that I must on no account, mention A's name in front of B.
(6) The second I come across a familiar person I find myself blabbing about it.
(7) 'These are delicate security matters which are also politically sensitive, so I am appalled that Mo Mowlam has seen fit to blab on a television chat show.
(8) It really tore me up, because I didn’t want to blab my side of the story, and I haven’t and I still won’t, out of respect for Angel and out of respect I still have for him.
(9) But what is striking is the absolute understanding of the ITV 29 that they must not blab.
(10) Jesse's there, still blabbing on about books, proving that the key to a good one-night stand is leaving very quickly afterwards.
(11) Monospecific as well as multireactive HEL-binding BlAbs were found at frequencies comparable to other protein antigens in the panel, and HEL-reactive NAbs were also present.
(12) Photograph: Graham Parker Healey works well with Twellman – the former player is emphatic when he does speak but as he says, "One of the things I want to to do as a game analyst is to not overstep my mark with the play by play guy, and I've learned that by watching a lot of the EPL type announcers, where that analysts doesn't talk a lot – and when he does it's short, sweet and to the point, and they try not to blab on and on about something."
(13) "I just had to respond to the comment from Chris Roberts in the 49th minute, who seems to think that it is some sort of character flaw in Americans to complain when our team has been robbed," blabs Steven Vaughan.
(14) But after his alleged blabbing of highly classified intelligence to the Russians, Trump can now lay claim to the greatest superlative of any sitting president: he is the biggest bozo of them all.
(15) Four Trypanosoma cruzi strains from zymodemes A, B, C and D were successively cloned on BHI-LIT-agar-blood (BLAB).
(16) Over half of the IgM-secreting BlAbs produced antibodies that were antigen-reactive; of these, over half were multireactive, i.e.
(17) However, over half of the antigen-reactive NAbs were also multireactive, and the reactivity profile within the antigen-reactive subset of NAbs was similar to that within the antigen-reactive subset of BlAbs.
(18) By 1963, media allegations that Profumo had fallen into a honey trap in which Keeler was manipulated by her osteopath friend Stephen Ward (damned by hacks as a reckless libertine with MI5 and Kremlin contacts) into luring her Tory lover to blab nuclear secrets that were passed on to the Kremlin became so nearly ubiquitous that the minister felt compelled to make a statement to the House.
(19) He was just blabbing away, like ‘Oh, you think you’re a smart-ass,’ this and that.
(20) Mavis blabbed in front of my mother that my then partner was about to move in with us, before I'd told her myself.
Blob
Definition:
(n.) Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
(n.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
(2) There was no evidence of a "columnar" or "blob" pattern of any binding site within any of the laminae.
(3) The thresholds for both tasks increased linearly with decreasing resolution (increasing blur), for a constant ratio of the resolution parameter and the separation of the outer two blobs.
(4) If you look at a map of Britain resized according to house prices, London and the south-east form a massive blob, and every other region and nation are mere stringy offshoots, like a fried egg that is all yolk.
(5) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(6) The centers of the hypercolumns coincide with the blobs.
(7) Segregation of textures based on differences in line orientation and blob size was tested in adults, infants and children, with a forced-choice preferential looking technique.
(8) In primate striate cortex, staining for the mitochondrial enzyme cytochrome oxidase reveals a regular pattern of intense staining, the blobs, which are surrounded by the lighter stained interblob regions.
(9) Differential connections between CO-rich (blobs) and CO-poor regions (interblobs) also exist within V1; blobs are connected to blobs and interblobs are connected to interblobs.
(10) The level of isolation of the blobs from the surrounding interblob tissue was investigated in the present study by combining CO staining with Golgi impregnation of dendritic arbors in the same tissue sections.
(11) Thus the activating domain of the hER HBD appears to be different from the recently characterized 'simple' activating domains, such as acidic 'blob' or amphipathic helix, and more likely corresponds to a protein surface created from dispersed elements and dependent upon the three-dimensional folding of the HBD.
(12) Paterson, who has previously said significant global temperature rises of 1-2.5C would only be modest and who claimed he was sacked as minister to appease the “green blob” , is to call for a repeal of the act unless other countries adopt similar carbon-cutting laws.
(13) Like the centers of pinwheels, the centers of blobs also lie along the midline of ocular-dominance columns.
(14) The preattentive system ignores the exact shape of these blobs, but is sensitive to their average width, length, and orientation.
(15) Neuroanatomical tracing studies have shown that blob and interblob cells receive different inputs and participate in different projections.
(16) The chief finding was that cells in "blobs" of layer III that stain densely for cytochrome oxidase receive indirect input, via layer IVC, from both LGN magnocellular (M) and parvocellular (P) cells.
(17) The rare, ethereal objects, first seen in the 1990s, came to be known as Lyman-alpha blobs (Lab), their place instantly secured among the most mysterious phenomena in the heavens.
(18) The technique involves a full thickness incision of the blob of tissue and positioning of a spacer which is gradually expanded by means of a conical obturator.
(19) Scaling (i) the three-blob alignment results with estimates of the cortical magnification factor and (ii) the two-blob separation discrimination results with their corresponding neural blur parameter shows an impressive isotropy and blur scale-invariance for the mechanisms mediating differential spatial displacement discrimination across the visual field.
(20) The first woman to be awarded the prestigious gong in her own right, the 64-year-old earned a place as one of the most sought-after architects in the world, having bestowed her trademark blobs on cityscapes from Baku to Guangzhou This article was amended on 25 September 2015.