Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small blister or pustule.
- noun An air bubble.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A blister or pustule.
- noun A bubble, as in water or other fluid, or in a substance that has been fluid, as glass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A bubble, such as in paint or glass
- noun medicine A large
vesicle orbulla , usually containing aserous fluid - noun cytology An irregular bulge in the
plasma membrane of a cell undergoingapoptosis - noun geology A bubble-like inclusion of one mineral within another
- verb To form, or cause the formation of, blebs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Doctors make a small hole toward the front of the eye to drain out extra fluid, which is filtered through a "bleb" - a blisterlike bulge -- and eventually absorbed by the blood stream.
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Synopsis: Kaz is about to lose his girlfriend Cody to a "bleb", a composite of super-intelligent household items that integrate courtesy of a prevalent computer virus.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #21 edited by Gardner Dozois 2004
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He could not breathe on his own, but neither could he tolerate breaths the way they should be delivered, all at once and then out again, because that bleb was expanding and would eventually burst, popping the way a birthday balloon does when the party is ended and the guests have dispersed, violently shredding beyond all hopes of repair.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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He could not breathe on his own, but neither could he tolerate breaths the way they should be delivered, all at once and then out again, because that bleb was expanding and would eventually burst, popping the way a birthday balloon does when the party is ended and the guests have dispersed, violently shredding beyond all hopes of repair.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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It's that scanner that peeks under your clothing, creating a ghostly but realistic image of your naked body, accurate down to every curve, knurl, protuberance, carbuncle, wen, bleb, wart and wattle and garfunkel.
Airport frisk assessment: Gene gets rubbed the wrong way Gene Weingarten 2010
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It lapped over all the dges, and writing it was a process of running around in circles, pushing it back inside the railings when it tried to bleb out.
we never learn. even deserts burn. and all politicians lie. matociquala 2007
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It was a complication of the emphysema that caused her to pass away at severty-five (a bleb in her lung burst).
qdiosa Diary Entry qdiosa 2007
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Review: Light-hearted (skillfully borderline silly) and inventive story with strong characters and good back story about Kaz's bleb paranoia since the death of his parents at the "hands" of a bleb (a set of steak knives attached to a coat rack).
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #21 edited by Gardner Dozois 2004
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The wound itself showed as a tiny scarlet spot on the sclera, a small conjunctival bleb above it.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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COOPER: You have been listening to Secretary of State Colin Powell, where in bleb, appearing with Lebanese Foreign Minister Jean Obedy (ph).
rocktopus commented on the word bleb
"keep your eye clear as the bleb of the icicle"
June 10, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word bleb
I love the "Visuals" for this word.
June 21, 2011
qms commented on the word bleb
Ambitions advance and they ebb
Like throbs of the life-giving web.
Once ardently sought
Are goals now forgot
And heart-breaking woe a mere bleb.
October 16, 2018