glob
UK/ɡlɒb//ɡlɑb/
glob noun: a round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
Noun (1)
glob (plural globs)
- A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
- He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
- The windows stay stubbornly shut and keep in a sweltering heat. It’s been three days, but it seems longer—slow, like the time I imagine it’d take to melt a house of this size into a wax glob.2023, Trang Thanh Tran, She is a Haunting, →ISBN
- A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
Verb (1)
glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)
- To stick in globs or lumps.
- […] paint globbed on the canvas, marring the careful shadowing he'd created on the snowbank. It was an amateurish mistake, completely unworthy of an artist of Teddy's skill.2024, Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane, page 58
Noun (2)
glob (plural globs)
- A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.
Verb (2)
glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)
- To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
- In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all.2000, Jon Lasser, Think Unix, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 123
glob meaning in Kannada
glob in Kannada
- ಮುದ್ದೆ
Examples of glob in a sentence
- Perl's pod docs are a disorganized mess on the relation of hashes, packages, objects, references and globs.
- “Maybe I will have one of these sashimi,” I said, reaching for a slimy pink glob.
- It's four pizzas stacked on top of each other and baked into an ooey, gooey, tomato saucey glob of happiness.
Forms of glob
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | globs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | globs |
| present participle | globbing |
| past participle | globbed |
| past | globbed |
Origin of glob
Possibly a blend of blob + gob, or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, lob, blob, lump, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.) In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour.
Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.
Words formed from glob
Questions about glob
- What does glob mean?
- Glob means a round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
- What is glob in Kannada?
- Glob in Kannada is ಮುದ್ದೆ. See Glob meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is glob?
- Glob can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce glob?
- Glob is pronounced /ɡlɑb/ (US).
- What is the plural of glob?
- The plural of glob is globs.
Words near glob in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: glob (page history and authors); glob (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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