blotch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An uneven patch of color or discoloration.

   “1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, London: J. & R. Tonson, 12th edition, Volume I, No. 16, p. 68, […] in healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the body […]”

2. isim An irregularly shaped area.

   “At Coleman's Hill, the upper beds consist of yellowish, soft, gritty sandstone, containing some small calcareous fragments, a few pebbles of quartz, blotches of red shale, and fragments of sandstone with impressions of stems of plants.”

3. isim Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain.
4. isim Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots.

   “The fungus causing blotch lives through the winter in the cankers which it has developed on twigs, water sprouts, and fruit spurs.”

5. isim A bright or dark spot on old film caused by dirt and loss of the gelatin covering the film, due to age and poor film quality.

   “Characteristics of blotches are that they seldom appear at the same spatial location in consecutive frames, they tend to be smooth (little texture), and they usually have intensity values that are very different from the original contents they cover.”

6. isim A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.
7. isim Blotting paper.
8. fiil To mark with blotches.

   “Just beyond were two ancient stone pillars, weather-stained and lichen-blotched bearing upon their summits a shapeless something which had once been the rampant lion of Capus of Birlstone.”

9. fiil To develop blotches, to become blotchy.

   “Our waistline will extend a few more inches at least, and our aging skin will blotch and sag.”