blot
污点,污渍,污痕,污污点
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Definitions
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- : a spot or stain, especially of ink on paper.
- : a blemish on a person's character or reputation: He had been haunted by a blot on his past.
- : Archaic. an erasure or obliteration, as in a writing.
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blot·ted, blot·ting.
- : to spot, stain, soil, or the like.
- : to darken; make dim; obscure or eclipse: We watched as the moon blotted out the sun.
- : to dry with absorbent paper or the like: to blot the wet pane.
- : to remove with absorbent paper or the like.
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blot·ted, blot·ting.
- : to make a blot; spread ink, dye, etc., in a stain: The more slowly I write, the more this pen blots.
- : to become blotted or stained: This paper blots too easily.
- : Chemistry. to transfer an array of separated components of a mixture to a chemically treated paper for analysis.Compare gel, gel electrophoresis.
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- : blot out, to make indistinguishable; obliterate: to blot out a name from the record.to wipe out completely; destroy: Whole cities were blotted out by bombs.
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Examples
Here’s the nutshell bio that Gary sent me last night — after I discovered that he’d gotten that 500th blot of ink.
Like a catalogue of Rorschach ink blots, his oeuvre generates orgies of idle speculation and elaborate projection.
Back in 2015, the Empress ran a contest that Loser William Verkuilen remembers fondly, having gotten a couple of blots of ink out of it in Week 1155.
There’s one subset of Novel Interpretations of our Staake contest that’s unlikely ever to win the whole thing, but almost always results in a blot of ink for one or two Losers.
It’s the fifth Style Invitational win — and 382nd blot in all — for Dave Prevar, but it’s his first Clowning Achievement trophy.
Like Amalek, the Biblical evil-doer whose name we are enjoined to “blot out.”
But we must remember not only to not forget, but to blot out the enemy—not mercifully, but through genocide.
The scandal was “a serious blot on my reputation,” he complained to Leveson.
Think of its twisted outline as a Rorschach blot for a society—maybe a civilization.
The speech did irreparable damage to Powell's reputation, and he has since called it "a blot on his record."
I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
It needs better evidence to stamp this solitary suggestion of a blot on the clear scutcheon of Douglas.
Men surged forward to close in and blot out the glow from the killer's fingers.
It is the blot on Richard Feverel, for instance, that it begins to end well; and then tricks you and ends ill.
The failure to recognize the sanctity of marriage is the great blot on the system of Confucius as a scheme of morals.