glob
A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substanceA round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
Meaning
3 sensesA round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.
- a compact mass
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
Possibly a blend of blob + gob, or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism isPossibly 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.)
Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.
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