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blot

1 [blot]

noun, verb, blot⋅ted, blot⋅ting.

–noun

1.	a spot or stain, esp. of ink on paper.

2.	a blemish on a person's character or reputation: He had been haunted by a blot on his past.

3.	Archaic. an erasure or obliteration, as in a writing.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to spot, stain, soil, or the like.

5.	to darken; make dim; obscure or eclipse (usually fol. by out): We watched as the moon blotted out the sun.

6.	to dry with absorbent paper or the like: to blot the wet pane.

7.	to remove with absorbent paper or the like.

–verb (used without object)

8.	to make a blot; spread ink, dye, etc., in a stain: The more slowly I write, the more this pen blots.

9.	to become blotted or stained: This paper blots too easily.

10.	Chemistry. to transfer an array of separated components of a mixture to a chemically treated paper for analysis. Compare gel, gel electrophoresis.

—Verb phrase

11.

blot out,

a.	to make indistinguishable; obliterate: to blot out a name from the record.

b.	to wipe out completely; destroy: Whole cities were blotted out by bombs.

Origin:
1275–1325; (n.) ME blotte, akin to ON blettr blot, spot, stain; (v.) late ME blotten, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:

blotless, adjective

blot⋅ting⋅ly, adverb

blotty, adjective

Synonyms:
1. blotch, ink stain. 2. stain, taint, dishonor, disgrace, spot. 4. sully, disfigure. 5. obliterate, efface, erase, expunge. 7. absorb.

blot

2 [blot]

–noun

1.	Backgammon. an exposed piece liable to be taken or forfeited.

2.	Archaic. an exposed or weak point, as in an argument or course of action.

Origin:
1590–1600; < LG blat, akin to bloot bare, exposed, unprotected; c. D bloot, G bloss bare

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blot¹ (blŏt)

A spot or a stain caused by a discoloring substance: a blot of paint.
A stain on one's character or reputation; a disgrace. See Synonyms at stain.
The Northern, Southern, or Western blot analyses.

v. blot·ted, blot·ting, blots

v. tr.

To spot or stain, as with a discoloring substance.
To bring moral disgrace to.
To obliterate (writing, for example).
To make obscure; hide: clouds blotting out the moon.
To destroy utterly; annihilate: War blotted out their traditional way of life.
To soak up or dry with absorbent material.

v. intr.

To spill or spread in a spot or stain.
To become blotted, soaked up, or absorbed.

[Middle English.]

blot² (blŏt)

Games An exposed piece in backgammon.
Archaic A weak point.

[Possibly from Low German blat, naked, unprotected.]

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Blot

Blot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.]

1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. --Gascoigne.

2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. --Shak.

3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. --Rowe.

4. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.

One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. --Dryden.

5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. --Cowley.

6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

Syn: To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.

Blot

Blot\, v. i. To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

Blot

Blot\, n. [Cf. Icel. blettr, Dan. plet.]

1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." --Shak.

2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. --Dryden.

3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

This deadly blot in thy digressing son. --Shak.

Blot

Blot\, n. [Cf. Dan. blot bare, naked, Sw. blott, d. bloot, G. bloss, and perh. E. bloat.]

1. (Backgammon) (a) An exposure of a single man to be taken up. (b) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.

He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit. --Dryden.

2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.

Language Translation for : blot

Spanish: borrón,

German: der Klecks,

Japanese: しみ

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blot

1373, originally "blemish," perhaps from O.N. blettr "blot, stain," or from O.Fr. bloche "clod of earth." The verb is first attested 1440. Blotter "police arrest record," first recorded 1887, Amer.Eng., from earlier meaning "day book" (1678). Blotto "drunk" attested from c.1905.

Main Entry: blot
Pronunciation: 'blät
Function: noun
: a nitrocellulose sheet that contains spots of immobilized macromolecules (as of DNA, RNA, orprotein) or their fragments and that is used to identify specific components of the spots by applying a suitable molecular probe (as a complementary nucleic acid or a radiolabeled antibody) —seeNORTHERN BLOT, SOUTHERN BLOT, WESTERN BLOT —blot transitive verb

blot (blŏt)
n.
The Northern, Southern, or Western blot analyses.

Blot

a stain or reproach (Job 31:7; Prov. 9:7). To blot out sin is to forgive it (Ps. 51:1, 9; Isa. 44:22; Acts 3:19). Christ's blotting out the handwriting of ordinances was his fulfilling the law in our behalf (Col. 2:14).

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