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glob Definition

glob (gläb)

noun

a somewhat rounded mass or lump, as of jelly or grease

Etymology: prob. contr. < globule, modeled on blob

glob Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • cream: We like chopped bananas, experiment with things even a glob of ice cream.

Converse of object

  • see: See glob for details on the file name expansion.
  • have: When yu buy sneakers from a catalog and they're shoddy and have glue globs on the rubber, you don't berate yourself.
  • put: Put thick globs of PVA here and there to get some texture into the surface.
  • make: This in turn was expected to attract electrons, making the quark glob metallic and opaque.

Adjective modifier

  • big: We don't get neutered and washed into some big glob.
  • large: Trees that line the street collect the light rain and then suddenly release large globs of water like ripe fruit.
  • great: A great big glob of underlying frustration is building up, because people are not feeling heard by their democratic governments.
  • booger: Tetsuo has the power to kill his enemies by throwing what look like either psychic bolts or booger globs at them.
  • little: It wouldn't be long before males started storing sperm, in little globs around the outer edge of their property.

Modifies a noun

  • pattern: You simply specify all files to be indexed in any order with some glob patterns.
  • top: For commercial use the die is protected by a plastic ' glob top ' , usually black in color.
  • command: The glob command differs from csh globbing in two ways.
  • expression: The glob expression is evaluated by the shell in the current directory.
  • matching: See the documentation for string match for information on glob style matching, and the documentation for regexp for information on regexp matching.