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==English==

===Etymology===
{{unc|en}}. Perhaps a {{blend|en|blot|botch|nocap=1}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/blɒtʃ/|a=RP}}
* {{IPA|en|/blɑt͡ʃ/|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-blotch.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɒtʃ|s=1}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# An [[uneven]] [[patch]] of [[color]] or [[discoloration]].
#* '''1711''', {{w|Joseph Addison}} and {{w|Richard Steele}}, ''[[w:The Spectator (1711)|The Spectator]]'', London: J. & R. Tonson, 12th edition, Volume I, No. 16, p. 68,<sup>[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012312960]</sup>
#*: {{...}} in healing those '''Blotches''' and Tumours which break out in the body {{...}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1768|author=w:Laurence Sterne; Sermon VI|title=[[w:Sermons 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
|passage=Since the day in which this reformation began, by how many strange and critical turns has it been perfected and handed down, if not, ''entirely without spot or wrinkle,''—at least, without great '''blotches''' or marks of [[anility]].}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1860|author=w:George Eliot|title=w:The Mill on the Floss|section=Book II, Chapter 2|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6688/6688-h/6688-h.htm
|passage=Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the limbs of infancy; {{...}} it clothed the rough turnip-field with whiteness, and made the sheep look like dark '''blotches''';}}
#* '''1921''', {{w|Wallace Stevens}}, Sur Ma Guzzla Gracile, Palace of the Babies, in [[w:Poetry Magazine|Poetry]], Volume 19, No. 1,<sup>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170106222758/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=15356]</sup>
#*: The disbeliever walked the moonlit place,
#*: Outside the gates of hammered serafin,
#*: Observing the moon-'''blotches''' on the walls.
# An [[irregular]]ly shaped area.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1839|title=The Silurian System |author= |page= |ISBN= |passage=At Coleman's Hill, the upper beds consist of yellowish, soft, gritty sandstone, containing some small calcareous fragments, a few pebbles of quartz, '''blotches''' of red shale, and fragments of sandstone with impressions of stems of plants. }}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1923|author=w:Willa Cather|title=w:One of Ours|section=Book One, Chapter 5|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2369/pg2369-images.html
|passage=His shirt showed big '''blotches''' of moisture, and the sweat was rolling in clear drops along the creases in his brown neck.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1938 |title=Stumpage Prices of Privately Owned Timber in the United States |author=Henry Bake Steer  |page= |ISBN= |passage=Microscopic and sometimes macroscopic examination of the apparently healthy intervening tissue may reveal the fungus connecting the '''blotches''' of diseased tissue. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2010|title=The Book of Flights |author=J.M.G. Le Clezio  |page= |ISBN=1407066498 |passage=Evil places where the wind whistles and the dust grates, places that are '''blotches''' of shadow, '''blotches''' of rust, '''blotches''' of oil: innumerable '''blotches'''. }}
# {{lb|en|figuratively}} [[imperfection|Imperfection]]; [[blemish]] on one’s [[reputation]], [[stain]].
#* '''1921''', {{w|Warren G. Harding}}, 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,<sup>[http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres46.html]</sup>
#*: 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.
# Any of various [[crop]] [[disease]]s that cause the [[plant]] to form [[spot]]s.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1926|title=Apple blotch  |author=John William Roberts; Leslie Pierce  |page=3 |ISBN= |passage=The fungus causing blotch lives through the winter in the cankers which it has developed on twigs, water sprouts, and fruit spurs. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1951|title=Market Diseases of Fruits and Vegetables: Apples, Pears, Quinces |author=Dean Humboldt Rose; Lacy Porter McColloch; D. F. Fisher  |page= |ISBN= |passage=Blue mold and the black rot fungus are most Commonly found associated with '''blotch''' in this way. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1999 |title=Diseases of Horticultural Crops: Vegetables, Ornamentals, and Mushrooms |author= |page= |ISBN=8173871027 |passage='''Blotch''' is one of the most common and serious diseases of  ''A. bisporus'' and is responsible for considerable losses. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2015|title=Mushroom Biotechnology: Developments and Applications  |author=Marian Petre  |page=98 |ISBN=0128028041 |passage=Pseudomonas is the major spoilage genus associated with '''blotch''' in fresh mushrooms. }}
# 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]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1999|title=Signal Processing for Multimedia  |author=Jim Byrnes  |page=173 |ISBN=9051994605 |passage=Characteristics of '''blotches''' are that they seldom appear at the same spatial location in consecutive frames, they tend to be smooth (little texture), and they usually have intensity values that are very different from the original contents they cover. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2000|title=Image and Video Databases: Restoration, Watermarking and Retrieval  |author=A. Hanjalic; G.C. Langelaar; P.M.B. van Roosmalen  |page=14 |ISBN=0080508472 |passage=Films corrupted by '''blotches''' are often restored in a two-step approach. The first step detects '''blotches''' and generates binary detection masks that indicate whether each pixel is part of a '''blotch'''. The second step corrects pixels by means of spatio-temporal interpolation. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2005|title=Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2005 |author=Pinar Yolum  |page= |ISBN=3540294147 |passage=Archive film materials are particularly degraded by '''blotch''', scratch, flicker and noise.  }}
# A dark spot on the [[skin]]; a [[pustule]].
# {{lb|en|slang}} [[blotting paper|Blotting paper]].

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|blotchless
|blotchily
|blotchiness|sooty blotch and flyspeck
|blotch on the escutcheon
|blotchwork
|blotchy
|net blotch
|side-blotched lizard
|sunblotch
|unblotched
|aspen leaf blotch miner moth|corn blotch leafminer|pimple and blotch}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|An uneven patch of color or discoloration}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|петно|n}}, {{t|bg|обезцветяване на кожата}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|skvrna|f}}, {{t|cs|skvrnka|f}}, {{t+|cs|flek|m}}, {{t+|cs|flíček|m}}, {{t|cs|kaňka|f}}
* Italian: {{t|it|screziatura|f}}, {{t|it|striatura|f}}, {{t|it|chiazzatura|f}}, {{t|it|picchiettatura|f}}, {{t+|it|macula|f}}, {{t|it|macola|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|mancha|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|пятно́|n}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+|sh|mrlja|sc=Latn}}, {{t+|sh|pjega|sc=Latn}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|mancha|f}}
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===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To mark with blotches.
#* '''1770''', [[w:Arthur Young (agriculturist)|Arthur Young]], ''A Six Months Tour through the North of England'', London: W. Strahan, Volume 2, p. 258,<sup>[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001895119]</sup>
#*: 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''.
#* {{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
|passage=A straight-edge is placed upon the chalk lines, with the edge next the line slightly raised, and the brush, well filled with colour, drawn along it, just touching the wall, the pressure being never increased, and the brush refilled whenever it is near failing; but great care must be taken that it be not too full, as in that case it will be apt to '''blotch''' the line, or drop the colour upon the lower portions of the wall.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1914|author=w:Arthur Conan Doyle|title=w:The Valley of Fear|section=Part 1, Chapter 4|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3776/3776-h/3776-h.htm
|passage=Just beyond were two ancient stone pillars, weather-stained and lichen-'''blotched''' bearing upon their summits a shapeless something which had once been the rampant lion of Capus of Birlstone.}}
#* '''1918''', {{w|D. H. Lawrence}}, Parliament Hill in the Evening in ''New Poems'',<sup>[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22726/pg22726-images.html]</sup>
#*: The houses fade in a melt of mist
#*: '''Blotching''' the thick, soiled air
#*: With reddish places that still resist
#*: The Night’s slow care.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1934|author=w:Sinclair Lewis|title=Work of Art|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601301h.html|chapter=1
|passage=His strong skin was of the Norse snow-fed pallor that no sun ever tanned, no adolescence ever '''blotched'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2007 |title=The Telephone Interviewer's Handbook |author=Patricia A. Gwartney  |page= |ISBN=0787986380 |passage=Returning on time is crucial, because a late return can be considered a tardy, and too many tardies can '''blotch''' an employment record. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2010|title=Flexner on Finishing |author=Bob Flexner  |page= |ISBN= 1440311250|passage=The only thing you can do in finishing that can't be fixed fairly easily is to '''blotch''' the wood with a stain. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2013 |title=The Cowboy at Work |author=Fay E. Ward -  |page= |ISBN=0486146235 |passage=There are some pointers which a hand operating an iron must keep in mind: If a brand is not burned deep enough, it will not peel, and if the iron is too hot, especially when a complicated stamp iron is used, it is pretty sure to '''blotch''' the brand. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2015|title=Hunting Caribou |author=Henry S. Sharp; Karyn Sharp  |page= |ISBN=0803277350 |passage=A slightly incorrect choice of wood for the smoking fire or allowing the smoke to grow too thick can '''blotch''' its finish and result in a nearly unusable finished hide. }}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To develop blotches, to become [[blotchy]].
#* '''1878''', Arthur Morecamp (pseudonym of Thomas Pilgrim), ''Live Boys; or, Charley and Nasho in Texas'', Boston: Lee & Shepard, Chapter 17, p. 166,<sup>[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007670280]</sup>
#*: {{...}} 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.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2008|title=Making Sense of Self-Esteem  |author=Mary Jane Warr  |page=10 |ISBN=0557549256 |passage=Our waistline will extend a few more inches at least, and our aging skin will '''blotch''' and sag.  }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011 |title=Fine Woodworking Best Finishing Techniques  |author= |page=207 |ISBN=1600853668 |passage=These areas, which also will take longer to dry, are the ones that will '''blotch''' when a dye or oil-based finish is applied. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2012 |title=Storey's Guide to Raising Miniature Livestock |author= Sue Weaver |page= |ISBN=1603426787 |passage=The simpler the brand, the lesser the likelihood that it will '''blotch''' and be unsightly and hard to read. }}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|blotched|pos=adjective}}