The word 'blob' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a large, shapeless mass or something that lacks a clear definition, as in the sentence: "The blob of jelly on the floor made a sticky mess."
Big Hero 6 Disney blockbuster with adorable blob thing.
Top with a blob of yoghurt and a squirt of chilli sauce one day, mix with a dash of chilli oil the next, and drizzle with parsley-garlic oil (mash together in a pestle and mortar) the following day.
It gets you tapping on orbiting rings to keep your planety blob out of the black hole in the middle.
Now, however, the OECD – the rich-country club which can hardly be dismissed as part of the educational "blob" that Mr Gove used to set himself against – brings worrying news about the country that the former education secretary used to describe as his inspiration.
You could have stripped the man of his endoskeleton and pulverised skin and organs until he was little more than a twitching, bloodied, barely verbal blob on the ground and he still would have shot his hand (or whatever remained of it) up and said to Clarke, "No, I'm right to bowl".
For teachers, Gove's regular praise for their individual efforts has long been drowned out by rantings against the "blob".
The Alan Parsons Project's Pyramid (1978) was fronted by portrait of a solitary figure in a hotel bedroom, riven with a huge abstract, blue blob of interference, as near to an approximation of a migraine as any visual artist has probably ever managed.
"It is a good moment for us to turn the page on what had become a really destructive relationship between the Department for Education and many, many teachers … [who] felt offended by the way in which Michael Gove or maybe his team appeared to just brand all teachers as a blob – that all teachers were resistant to reform.
The education establishment would slowly become "the blob", an amorphous monster that had to be beaten back.
Of the two, the blob-shaped dump would probably have been easier to spot than the ribbon of the wall, until New York's city government decided to redevelop Fresh Kills as a park a few years ago.In its way, Fresh Kills was an emblem of American culture, just as the Great Wall is an emblem of Chinese culture.
Chris Jones of iRobot says DARPA's criterion for the robot was that it had to fit through an opening half its full diameter.The result is the blob-like Chembot, which moves by deforming one side.
