I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blotting paper
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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As an experience to blot out the horror of her discovery on Brynteg it had been blissfully successful.
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Then by dusk it appears as if snowstorms are blotting out the distant views.
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By the time I reached the small town of Pinedale the blue sky had been blotted out by ugly, sulphurous yellow.
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A little beyond, to judge from the windows of dead, a Union regiment had been blotted out .
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I blot out unwanted runs, bleeds and blocks with highly textured kitchen roll.
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Rolling clouds of black smoke blotted out the sky while brilliant sheaths of flame slithered out of every window.
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Ace could see it only because it was moving, blotting out more stars as it and the shuttle flew towards each other.
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It was the kind of blindness that blots out obstacles and leads to brave ventures.
■ NOUN
copybook
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Mustn't blot my copybook by being late.
paper
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The solid marker was impregnated on blotting paper and then coated with cellulose.
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Then have them put the blotting paper inside the cup, with the ink above the water.
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An hour passed while he ordered pages and laid damp stamps on blotting paper with tweezers.
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Follow-up Make indicator strips by cutting blotting paper or heavy construction paper into strips and dipping them in the cabbage water.
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These moistened globules should be dried on blotting paper and then put in a sealed bottle, and labelled 0/1.
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The contents were then discarded, the wells were washed with the wash buffer solution and blotted on a paper towel.
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But if Berowne had been writing and had blotted the paper at the desk, where was it now?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A stage-a melee-heaving bodies-and then a huge hand filled the screen and blotted out everything for an instant.
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Any surface oil not absorbed after 10-15 minutes should be blotted off with a tissue.
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But the last 16 minutes blotted out all the blundering and turned this into an unforgettable classic.
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By the time I reached the small town of Pinedale the blue sky had been blotted out by ugly, sulphurous yellow.
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Covered the sky, blotted it right out.
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Kendall and his shadow blotted the tunnel ahead.
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Maybe I was blotting out my past, as provincials do, in my haste to get to where the action was.
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Would the daughter even remember her father with the perpetual presence of Hope to blot him out?
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
northern
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The washing of the northern blots was carried out according to standard methods.
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Figure 5. Northern blot analysis of Oct-11 and Oct-2 expression in various mouse tissues and cell lines.
■ NOUN
ink
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Right: Victor Hugo, ink blot , about 1855.
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This ink blot , due to be exhibited, dates from Hugo's eighteen year-long political exile on the island of Jersey.
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I appeared twice like an ink blot on a folded sheet of paper: a passive, meaningless blur.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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ink blots
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All transformed cell lines were examined by Southern blot hybridisation.
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Clones displaying a preferential expression in early placenta after Southern blot analysis were selected and sequenced.
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He makes no blot who has no ink, Nor gathers honey who keeps no bees.
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I appeared twice like an ink blot on a folded sheet of paper: a passive, meaningless blur.
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Right: Victor Hugo, ink blot , about 1855.
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There has been only one report that has identified epoxide hydrolase in colonic carcinomas, by western blot analysis.
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This ink blot , due to be exhibited, dates from Hugo's eighteen year-long political exile on the island of Jersey.
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This man Otis is the one blot on the banner of southern California; he is the bar sinister on your escutcheon.