glob.
A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
Meaning & usage
A 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.
Where this word comes from
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.
To stick in globs or lumps.
Where this word comes from
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.
A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.
Where this word comes from
Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.
To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
Where this word comes from
Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.
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