Meaning of Blotch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An uneven patch of color or discoloration.
2. An irregularly shaped area.
3. Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain.
   figuratively
4. Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots.
5. 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.
6. A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.
7. Blotting paper.
   slang

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Examples

“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 […]”

“Since the day in which this reformation began, by how many strange and critical turns has it been perfected and handed down, if not, entirely without spot or wrinkle,—at least, without great blotches or marks of anility.”

“Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the limbs of infancy; […] it clothed the rough turnip-field with whiteness, and made the sheep look like dark blotches;”

“1921, Wallace Stevens, Sur Ma Guzzla Gracile, Palace of the Babies, in Poetry, Volume 19, No. 1, The disbeliever walked the moonlit place, Outside the gates of hammered serafin, Observing the moon-blotches on the walls.”

“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.”

“His shirt showed big blotches of moisture, and the sweat was rolling in clear drops along the creases in his brown neck.”

“Microscopic and sometimes macroscopic examination of the apparently healthy intervening tissue may reveal the fungus connecting the blotches of diseased tissue.”

“Evil places where the wind whistles and the dust grates, places that are blotches of shadow, blotches of rust, blotches of oil: innumerable blotches.”

“1921, Warren G. Harding, Inaugural address, in Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: from George Washington to Barack Obama, Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1989, There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.”

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

“Blue mold and the black rot fungus are most Commonly found associated with blotch in this way.”

“Blotch is one of the most common and serious diseases of A. bisporus and is responsible for considerable losses.”

“Pseudomonas is the major spoilage genus associated with blotch in fresh mushrooms.”

“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.”

“Films corrupted by blotches are often restored in a two-step approach. The first step detects blotches and generates binary detection masks that indicate whether each pixel is part of a blotch. The second step corrects pixels by means of spatio-temporal interpolation.”

“Archive film materials are particularly degraded by blotch, scratch, flicker and noise.”

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