(a.) A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.
(a.) A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everything looks good, the nurse said, and she pointed to a little white blotch: the indisputable sign that we were having a boy.
(2) Immune serum stains yeast cells to give a striking pattern of spots and blotches not seen with preimmune serum.
(3) In the national forest at Gribskov, Olrik points out an ash that has been cut down, how the beautiful light-coloured wood that makes ash so popular for furniture and other uses is discoloured and blotched.
(4) The Abyssinian is incompletely dominant to the striped and blotched alleles, whereas striped is completely dominant to the blotched.
(5) Based on the results of agar gel double immunodiffusion tests with broad spectrum rabbit antisera and narrow spectrum mouse immune ascitic fluids and formalin-fixed purified viruses, a close relationship was established between 3 members of the Cucumovirus group namely Robinia mosaic virus (RoMV), clover blotch virus (CBV) and peanut stunt virus (PSV).
(6) Three alleles of the tabby locus (T) have been identified, namely, Abyssinian (Ta), striped (T), and blotched (tb).
(7) Over the course of the last century, while blotched executions have fueled movement from one execution method to another, they have not posed a serious challenge to the continuing viability of death as a punishment.
(8) The amount of LL-N-(2-amino-2-carboxyethyl)aspartic acid which accumulates in the P. teres cultures is low, indicating that aspergillomarasmine A is the toxin which plays the major role in the pathological changes associated with the barley net-spot blotch disease.
(9) Both P. putida, the bacterium responsible for initiating basidiome development of A. bisporus, and P. tolaasii, the causal organism of bacterial blotch disease of the mushroom, displayed a positive chemotactic response to Casamino acids and to A. bisporus mycelial exudate.
(10) These data indicate that amino acid sequences of coat proteins of azuki bean mosaic virus, the Type and W strains of blackeye cowpea mosaic virus, three isolates (74, PM, PN) of a potyvirus obtained from soybean in Taiwan, and the Blotch and Mild Mottle strains of peanut stripe virus (PStV) may be very similar to the known sequence of PStV Stripe coat protein.
(11) The first is the apparent absence of blotched tabby and a relatively high frequency of Abyssinian tabby.
(12) All that is left of the grasslands here are yellowing blotches on a stony surface riddled with rodent holes.
(13) Abnormalities in MRI were high-intense spots, blotches and streaks, located predominantly in the periventricular area.
(14) Ten years later, purplish to brownish blotch and nodules accompanied with heating sensation and pain appeared and increased in size gradually on the left forearm.
(15) But look closely and there are telltale signs – purply discoloured blotches on his hands, a trellis of veins running through his cheeks like a Red Windsor cheese.
(16) Check for lumps and blotches ; try not to let anyone near your foreskin with a knife without good reason until you're old enough to know that is what you want; stick to soap and water rather than chemical gunk – and listen to Suzanne about the toaster thing.
(17) Among these cases, 6 patients have localization of perineum and 18 patients have local blotch pigmented papules.
(18) In two of the cases, reddish-purplish blotches over lower limbs, not raised and which blanched on pressure, was an unusual feature.
(19) Storage at 45 degrees and 75% relative himidity resulted in significant changes in most measured parameters; tablets showed blotching, substantial weight loss, and complex changes in disintegration and dissolution.
(20) Pseudomonas tolaasii Paine is the causal organism of the economically significant brown blotch disease of the cultivated mushroom Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Imbach.
Gobbet
Definition:
(n.) A mouthful; a lump; a small piece.
(v. t.) To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.
Example Sentences:
(1) September 6, 2013 8.19am BST One more gobbet of economic news -- UK house prices are rising at their fastest rate since 2010.
(2) Keystone laboratories came up with McNuggets, little gobbets of minced, reconstituted chicken, battered and breaded.
(3) The British National party chairman, Nick Griffin, seemed to agree, elegantly tweeting that the speech was "patently insecure bullshit"– as well as illustrating the elevated heights to which social media have taken political debate, when one or two impulsive lefties re-tweeted another of his gobbets, about the Labour leader acting as a "recruiting sergeant" for the BNP.
(4) In reply, he spat a gobbet of sickly racism inspired by the African spirit of the show.
(5) Updated at 2.49pm BST 2.38pm BST ECB buys no bonds, looks to OMT A small gobbet of news from the European Central Bank – it bought precisely zero government bonds last week via its SMP scheme.
(6) To conclude the tour she curls up on a sofa, tosses gobbets of popcorn into her mouth and relaxes with a film from Trump’s on-board cinémathèque of a thousand movies.
(7) Ultimately, if you're going to pebbledash your drama with walloping great gobbets of cartoon gore, it's probably best to make sure that it is, at the very least, scary.