(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.
Lump
Definition:
(n.) A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.
(n.) A mass or aggregation of things.
(n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
(v. i.) To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.
(v. i.) To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.
(v. i.) To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although distributed models yielded improved fits of the data, the distributed and lumped models produced similar estimates of membrane parameters.
(2) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(4) In agreement with the predictions based on a simple lumped-parameters model, we found that Z reached very low values, especially at the frequencies where H had a resonance peak.
(5) The effective electrical geometry under the conditions of control and 0.5 mM PNB sufficient to completely abolish the postsynaptic potential were determined from analyses of the membrane charging curves assuming the lumped-soma-short-cable model.
(6) Examination of the patient revealed 2 lumps detected in the right hemi-scrotum which felt like small testes and did not permit transillumination.
(7) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
(8) If the abnormal sensation, such as a lump or choking, in the throat was mainly caused by inflammatory changes in the palatine tonsils or their surrounding tissues and conveyed via vagal nerve branches distributing there, the sensation might be reduced by topically injected Impletol (Procaine and caffeine in saline solution), i.e.
(9) Combination with IP degrees increases polyhead formation when head formation is not blocked at a more defective stage but results in a qualitative shift to lump formation in association with gene 22 mutants.
(10) "It really gets my goat when commentators (literally all British ones especially Townsend) complain that Spain don't play with a striker as they 'lack a focal point' or 'don't have any direction', presumably because these commentators would lump it up to the 'big man'.
(11) The degree of observer variation in recording 11 186 items of clinical data from 242 woman who presented complaining of a lump in the breast to a group of 10 surgeons was studied.
(12) It is therefore felt that (1) a cautious attitude is necessary when commenting on FNAC samples until more specific criteria are forthcoming for the diagnosis of this neoplasm; and (2) if cellular atypias are seen in FNAC samples, these should be reported with a recommendation for removal of the breast lump and a detailed tissue examination.
(13) Our analysis of 1051 breast biopsies in West Indian women under the age of 30 y revealed that 99% of the breast lumps were benign.
(14) Kadyrov also gave the happy couple an unusual wedding present – "a five kilo lump of gold".
(15) A female patient presented with a lump in the right parotedeal region.
(16) GCPP includes standardization of both experimental factors (lumped constant, arterialization, purity of tracer, regions of interest, relative rates) and clinical factors (state of the subject, wakefulness, anxiety, gender, course of the disease) in PET performance.
(17) There are clearly lots of nice, benign, kind nuns who'd be a bit miffed to be lumped in with all the others."
(18) The rest of ICD-10, either on the three- or on the four-digit level, has to be grouped into combinations of classes (lumping) to allow compatible conversion to the remaining rubrics of ICPC.
(19) His BBC television career famously came to an end when he thrust a lump of cheese in his commissioning editor's face .
(20) A 39-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of large breast lump (11.5 X 8.0 cm) and an abnormal nipple discharge.