blotch

blotch englannista suomeksi

1. laikku, läiskä

2. laikuttaa

0. Substantiivi

0. Verbi

blotch englanniksi

1. An uneven patch of color or discoloration.

2. 1711, (w) and (w), ''Spectator (1711)|The Spectator'', London: J. & R. Tonson, 12th edition, Volume I, No. 16, p. 68,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012312960

(..) in healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the body (..)

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1768|author=Laurence Sterne; Sermon VI|title=of Laurence Sterne|The Sermons of Mr. Yorick|location=London|publisher=T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt|volume=3|pages=182–183|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100217025

4. {{quote-text|en|year=1860|author=George Eliot|title=The Mill on the Floss|section=Book II, Chapter 2|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6688/6688-h/6688-h.htm

5. 1921, (w), Sur Ma Guzzla Gracile, Palace of the Babies, in Magazine|Poetry, Volume 19, No. 1,https://web.archive.org/web/20170106222758/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=15356

The disbeliever walked the moonlit place,

Outside the gates of hammered serafin,

Observing the moon-blotches on the walls.

6. An irregularly shaped area.

7. (quote-book)

8. {{quote-text|en|year=1923|author=Willa Cather|title=One of Ours|section=Book One, Chapter 5|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2369/pg2369-images.html

9. Imperfection; blemish on one’s reputation, stain.

10. 1921, (w), 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,http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres46.html

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.

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

12. 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.

13. A dark spot on the skin; a pustule.

14. paper|Blotting paper.

15. To mark with blotches.

16. 1770, Young (agriculturist)|Arthur Young, ''A Six Months Tour through the North of England'', London: W. Strahan, Volume 2, p. 258,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001895119

Upon the whole, the spirit and relief of the figures, with the strength of the colouring, render it a most noble picture; and it is not done in the coarse blotching stile, so common to the pieces which pass under the name of ''Bassan''.

17. {{quote-book|en|year=1860|author=W. R. Tymms|title=The Art of Illuminating as Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times|location=London|publisher=Day & Son|chapter=40|page=84|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000575258

18. {{quote-text|en|year=1914|author=Arthur Conan Doyle|title=The Valley of Fear|section=Part 1, Chapter 4|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3776/3776-h/3776-h.htm

19. 1918, (w), Parliament Hill in the Evening in ''New Poems'',http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22726/pg22726-images.html

The houses fade in a melt of mist

Blotching the thick, soiled air

With reddish places that still resist

The Night’s slow care.

20. {{quote-text|en|year=1934|author=Sinclair Lewis|title=Work of Art|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601301h.html|chapter=1

21. To develop blotches, to become blotchy.

22. 1878, Arthur Morecamp (pseudonym of Thomas Pilgrim), ''Live Boys; or, Charley and Nasho in Texas'', Boston: Lee & Shepard, Chapter 17, p. 166,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007670280

(..) when a man is going to drive cattle out of the county he has to put a road-brand on them (..) It is generally made of letters or figures, or something that won’t cross lines, because where they cross they are apt to blotch and then it’s hard to tell what the brand is and who the animal belongs to.