glob
About 0.15 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
- noun A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
- verb To stick in globs or lumps.
- noun A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.
- verb To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
Similar words
lump clump clod ball chunk dollop mass globosity glop globulus
Often followed by
of in and on that pattern biogeochem is
Word family
globbier globbiest globby globs
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