blotting's Usage Examples:

In Christian theology, much labour has been spent upon vindicating man's freedom against God's intrusion, or upon blotting out human power in order to leave room for the divine.

A note of caution: fiber and bulk-forming laxatives partly work by absorbing water (a bit like blotting paper ).

A feature of Lake Albert Edward Nyanza is the thick haze which overhangs the water during the dry season, blotting out from view the mountains.

It's smart to keep blotting tissues in your purse as well if you have particularly oily skin.

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When freed from excess of water it is laid on a sheet of thick white blotting-paper, and a piece of smooth washed calico is placed upon it (unwashed calico, on account of its "facing," adheres to the sea-weed).

When the leaves are finely divided, as in Conium, much trouble will be experienced in lifting a half-dried specimen from one paper to another; but the plant may be placed in a sheet of thin blotting paper, and the sheet containing the plant, instead of the plant itself, can then be moved.

An amulet of similar shape, as the symbol of the "name," was worn by men and women as a protection against the blotting out of the name after death.

The heat is sufficient to keep the resulting lead oxide fused, and the porous cupel has the property of absorbing melted lead oxide without taking up any of the metallic globule, exactly in the same way that blottingpaper will absorb water whilst it will not touch a globule of mercury.

Platinized platinum (platinum foil upon which a thin film of platinum had been deposited electrolytically) and charcoal were rendered incandescent, black paper and matches immediately inflamed, ordinary brown paper pierced and burned, while thin white blotting-paper, owing to its transparency to the invisible rays, was scarcely tinged.

Other methods occasionally used include whole neutrophil ELISA, flow cytometry and various immunoblotting methods.

Think of it as the blotting paper for the new age.

This is interesting as an example of what was known as memoriae damnatio or the blotting out of a name on account of some dishonourable action.

Synonyms:

spot, slur, defect, splodge, blotch, blemish, mar, daub, fingerprint, smear, splotch, fingermark, smudge, inkblot, smirch,

Antonyms:

honor, cleanness, stay, strengthen, focus,