blotting
pronunciation
How to pronounce blotting in British English:
UK [blɒtɪŋ]
How to pronounce blotting in American English:
US [blɒtɪŋ]
Word Origin
- blotting (n.)
- mid-15c., verbal noun from blot (v.). Blotting paper is recorded from 1510s.
Example
- 1. This factory manufactures good quality duplex offset blotting paper .
- 2. Darkening the light and blotting out the sun ;
- 3. The images of his dead friends kept blotting out the pages , he could not think of them without seeing them .
- 4. He blotted the page carefully with blotting paper .
- 5. This is conducted on all newborns in australia , usually by a midwife by piercing the baby 's heel , squeezing it so enough blood can be caught on special blotting paper to be later screened , tested and stored .