glob
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
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…
A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
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.
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A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular…
A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.
To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
- In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for glob. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA