(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.
Frieze
Definition:
(n.) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
(n.) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
(n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
(v. t.) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you think London gets too crowded with events during the Frieze fair, stay away from Miami: this year there were at least 17 art fairs happening simultaneously.
(2) ( eyzies.monuments-nationaux.fr ; 00 33 5530 68600 ) Abri de Cap Blanc: Another must, Cap Blanc is made up of series of bas-reliefs created by artists who took advantage of the topography of the rock wall to sculpt a frieze of horses of startling impact.
(3) The Scream stands alone in our imaginations, but when you relate it to other scenes in the Frieze of Life, its meaning becomes clearer.
(4) Take the 1970 Dodge Challenger he has rebuilt for Frieze, or its 1969 cousin, the Charger, two of which he is working on in the Body Shop.
(5) At this year's Frieze, the quilted, chained shoulderbag was the style of choice in an environment where designer accessories come as standard.
(6) The ceremony had a bogus feel but, dressed in that clinging material the Athenian sculptors rendered so miraculously in marble, the virgins of Vesta the goddess of fire really did look as though they had served as caryatids or just stepped from an ancient frieze.
(7) Designed by Pericles's master sculptor, Phidias, the marbles were part of a monumental frieze that adorned the Parthenon.
(8) When you look at his classic works in Oslo's National Gallery and the Munch Museum, you can follow them, not as a narrative exactly, but as a spiritual autobiography he called the Frieze of Life.
(9) Meanwhile, one of the fragments of the frieze that remained in Greece , newly mounted in the Acropolis museum, is eroded by pollution and so horribly neglected by that long independent country that it can hardly be recognised.
(10) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian October's Frieze is now firmly marked on fashion's annual calendar , with the art world's style a great tonic after four weeks of front rows eyeing up each other's outfits.
(11) Jennifer Higgie, London editor of contemporary art magazine Frieze , says the ambition of the project, especially during tough economic times, should be applauded.
(12) The Frieze piece notches up several firsts for Prince: it's his first fully working car-as-artwork, and his first public commission for a British audience.
(13) But for the most part the book is a kind of corybantic frieze of all-too-human mankind, its characters parading unforgettably past us, insinuating themselves permanently into our imaginations, populating our mental landscapes.
(14) The hysteria of the Habsburg empire on the verge of breaking up becomes ecstasy in Klimt's Beethoven Frieze, with its savage King Kong monkey-face manifesting the moronic power of irrational forces.
(15) Prince's Frieze installation bears many of the hallmarks of his art over the past three decades.
(16) For nearly 40 years Athens has argued that the sculptures – part of a giant frieze depicting the Panathenaic procession, which adorned the Parthenon until their removal by Lord Elgin, England’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire – should be “reunited” with surviving pieces in Athens in the name of respect for a monument of universal importance.
(17) Viv’s book keeps getting reprinted because she works so hard at it that way,” Lee Brackstone says: she’s recently spoken at the Frieze Art Fair and the ICA, and is lecturing at Goldsmiths College later this month.
(18) Hightlights of the Vézère valley Grotte de Rouffignac: The cavern train carries you past friezes of woolly rhinos, superbly rendered in black, and engravings of mammoths, gouged into soft clay-limestone walls by artists who used their fingers.
(19) A clue can be found in the first issue, from September 1991, of the contemporary art magazine Frieze.
(20) Athens wants nothing else back – including that other pillaged masterpiece, the Bassae frieze, which in high relief depicts the Greeks fighting the Amazons and is also on display at the British Museum, but on account of staff shortages rarely available for viewing.