Used in a Sentence

blobs

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for blobs.

Editorial note

At that pricing, I'm curious if it makes sense to put blobs in the database rather than S3.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of blobs gathered in one view.

noun

The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.

noun

A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.

noun

An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of fat and nothing else.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for blobs.

noun

The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.

noun

A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.

noun

An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of fat and nothing else.

noun

Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob, a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.

Example sentences

1

At that pricing, I'm curious if it makes sense to put blobs in the database rather than S3.

2

They are totally free to make binary blobs and refuse to give source to their downloaders or their changes back to you.

3

It's expensive and MySQL is going to store all those blobs off-page anyway.

4

Back in the day everyone used Whitted style ray tracers to render shiny metal blobs because secular reflections are trivially handled with ray tracing.

5

Unless you have some compelling reason to have the blobs in the database, like indexing them, you'd be better off keeping them somewhere else.

6

And don't even talk about the proprietary HAL blobs or kernel modules.

7

User data is encrypted into blobs using a key generated from credentials.

8

Is all the source available or are blobs required to build images?

9

You're basically pushing large BLObs around your servers and to your users.

10

In the end it's all binary blobs that go to the CPU...

11

I looked through the repo, but it is not easy to tell if and what blobs are needed by the system.

12

I am surprised that some hardware manufacturer has not decided to mass produce a free software laptop with no binary blobs.

Quote examples

1

They're not "blobs" if they are also protobuf/thrift messages themselves.

2

How is your "I won't use your products because they are just binary blobs and I demand source" vindicated by Google acquiring Pixate after that?

3

The FCC could then go after bad actors who distribute modified blobs with one of those "Notice of Proposed Forfeiture: $25,000" actions the way they sometimes do with CB radio amplifier clowns, rude ham operators, and those pirate FM transmitter hoons who seem to be competing in a contest to demonstrate the worst engineering practices.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use blobs in a sentence?

At that pricing, I'm curious if it makes sense to put blobs in the database rather than S3.

What does blobs mean?

The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.

What part of speech is blobs?

blobs is commonly used as noun.