Used in a Sentence

blotches

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

Editorial note

Contemporary pc screens had blurry blotches instead of pixels, unless you were lucky enough to own a trinitron.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

An uneven patch of color or discoloration.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

An uneven patch of color or discoloration.

noun

An irregularly shaped area.

noun

A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for blotches.

noun

An uneven patch of color or discoloration.

noun

An irregularly shaped area.

noun

A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.

noun

Any of various crop diseases that cause the plant to form spots.

Example sentences

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Contemporary pc screens had blurry blotches instead of pixels, unless you were lucky enough to own a trinitron.

2

So women have genetically distinct blotches all over their body based on which cell disabled which X chromosome.

3

There are also blotches of paint that worsen the TIM contact between the PCB and the heatsink.

4

The OCR (optical character recognition) is doing the heavy lifting, essentially forcing the blotches into strings...

5

I'd like them to gently fade in, with pastel background, rather than whacking me with great blotches of white.

6

If you look really closely at the noisy images, you can see little blotches that vaguely resemble the things the computer recognized them as.

7

Especially the light sources - I see somewhat fuzzy spiky balls instead of evenly shaded blotches.

8

Maybe another way of phrasing this would be something like: can we talk about red blotches using red blotches themselves, in the same way that we can talk about words using words themselves?

9

I am now left with unsightly gray blotches and worried the rest might tumble..

10

I remember that lots of communities didn't want 7-11s in their area, because they showed up as red blotches in the crime maps.

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The pngs were gigabytes in size and he was a bit worried about the idea of using lossy jpgs since they might have messed up the tiny cell blotches.

12

I like the blotches, they're cute and add tons of personality.

Quote examples

1

The image with meaningless blotches, technical diagrams and implied dubiousness feels like the beginning of a "please check and comment" meme.

2

There is precedent for police to imagine that All currency is related to illegal activity, presumably under the shaky grounds of "otherwise you'd use a bank" [0] But if the blockchain clearly has some dark blotches on it, then in the eyes of the police ( perhaps not completely the law ) it confirms that the pot is tainted.

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A bunch of pain blotches on canvas can mean “Stalin is terrible” as “Stalin is great.” The vague “what does it mean” style of art asks the question “what does it mean?” Which is not a question dictators like having asked.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use blotches in a sentence?

Contemporary pc screens had blurry blotches instead of pixels, unless you were lucky enough to own a trinitron.

What does blotches mean?

An uneven patch of color or discoloration.

What part of speech is blotches?

blotches is commonly used as noun.