blot

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
2. A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
3. A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
4. An exposed piece in backgammon.

Verb

1. To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
2. To soak up or absorb liquid.
3. To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
4. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
5. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
6. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
7. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
8. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
9. To sell illegal drugs, to deal, to push.
10. To hit a blot.

Conceptos

mancha

borrón

manchar

emborronar

baldón

desdoro

tizne

mancha de tinta

tiznón

chafarrinar

churrete

manchurrón

mácula

manchón

secar

transferencia

transferir

Sinónimos

stain

spot

blemish

smear

smirch

smudge

blur

speck

slur

blotch

soil

mark

flaw

defect

disgrace

fleck

tarnish

smut

speckle

blob

daub

splotch

stigma

sully

taint

mar

dot

pencil mark

dishonor

ignominy

moil

dab

shame

macula

dirty

efface

foul

run

discolouration

discoloration

smudginess

soak up

deficiency

dapple

besmirch

press gently

spread

brand

make turbid

scratches on a gem

blip

be spotted

wipe dry

grime

fault

erasure

be stained

imperfection

infamy

inkblot

maculation

macule

eclipse

obliterate

obscure

ooze

patch

point

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/blɒt/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English blot (“blot, spot, stain, blemish”). Perhaps from Old Norse *blettr (“blot, stain”) (only attested in documents from after Old Norse transitioned to Icelandic blettur), or from Old French bloche (“clod of earth”).