Blemish

Etymology
From, , from , stem of , (French ), from Old , , from Old , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
 * 2) * 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, Leviticus, 22, xix,
 * Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
 * 1) * 1997, Jean Soler, 5: The Semiotics of Food in the Bible, Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik (editors), Food and Culture: A Reader, page 61,
 * Any foot shape deviating from this model is conceived as a blemish, and the animal is unclean.
 * 1) * 2003, A. K. Forrest, Chapter 6: Surface Defect Detection on Ceramics, Mark Graves, Bruce Batchelor (editors), Machine Vision for the Inspection of Natural Products, page 193,
 * There are a very large number of types of blemish and the smallest blemish visible to a human can be surprisingly small, for example less than 10μm deep, which may be on the surface of a heavily embossed tile.
 * 1) A moral defect; a character flaw.
 * 1) A moral defect; a character flaw.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:defect

Translations

 * Armenian:, ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, Schönheitsfehler
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κηλίς, σπίλος
 * Hebrew:
 * Interlingue: macul
 * Irish: ainimh, breall, cáim,, cron, máchail, meann , , spota


 * Italian:
 * Khmer:
 * Latin: macula
 * Macedonian: недостаток
 * Maori: tongatonga, koha, makenu
 * Occitan: deca,, , , macadura , maganha
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scots: blain
 * Slovak: fľak, škvrna, kaz, vada
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Thai:


 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: פגם מוסרי


 * Interlingue: defecte
 * Irish: smál
 * Occitan: defaut, defautàs,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: nedostatok, chyba
 * Spanish: ,
 * Telugu:


 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * 1) To spoil the appearance of.
 * 2) * 2009, Michael A. Kirkman, Chapter 2: Global Markets fo Processed Potato Products, Jaspreet Singh, Lovedeep Kaur (editors), Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology, page 40,
 * Generally, varieties in current use for processing are resilient, if not wholly resistant to blemishing diseases and disorders.
 * 1) * 2011, Rob Imrie, Emma Street, Architectural Design and Regulation, unnumbered page,
 * I mean it reaches a point of ridiculousness in some regards, and one′s seen actually many good schemes here in San Francisco, for example, that have been blemished by an overly strict adherence to codes.
 * 1) To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.
 * 2) * 1600,, Commentaries of the Divers Pieces of Service
 * There had nothing passed betwixt us that might blemish reputation.
 * There had nothing passed betwixt us that might blemish reputation.

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,


 * Russian:
 * Slovak: poškvrniť, pokaziť, kaziť
 * Spanish: ,