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- [glob]
- /glɒb/
- /ɡlɒb/
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- [glob]
- /glɒb/
Definitions of glob word
- noun glob a drop or globule of a liquid. 1
- noun glob a usually rounded quantity or lump of some plastic or moldable substance: a little glob of clay; a huge glob of whipped cream. 1
- noun glob A lump of a semiliquid substance. 1
- noun glob drop or blob of viscous liquid 1
- noun Technical meaning of glob (file system, programming) /glob/ A mechanism that returns a list of pathnames that match a pattern containing wild card characters. Globbing was available in early versions of Unix and, in more limited form, in Microsoft Windows. The characters are: * = zero or more characters, e.g. "probab*" would match probabilistic, probabilistically, probabilities, probability, probable, probably. ? = any single character, e.g. "b?g" would match bag, big, bog, bug. These have become sufficiently pervasive that hackers use them in written messages. E.g. "He said his name was [KC]arl" (expresses ambiguity). "I don't read talk.politics.*" (any of the talk.politics subgroups on Usenet). Other examples are given under the entry for X. Later Unix shells introduced the x,y,z syntax which expands to a comma-separated list of alternatives, thus foobaz,qux would expand to "foobaz" and "fooqux". This differs from a glob because it generates a list of all possible expansions, rather than matching against existing files. Glob patterns are similar, but not identical, to regular expressions. "glob" was a subprogram that expanded wild cards in archaic pre-Bourne versions of the Unix shell. It is also a bulit-in function in Perl. 1
- countable noun glob A glob of something soft or liquid is a small round amount of it. 0
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Origin of glob
First appearance:
before 1895 One of the 18% newest English words
1895-1900; perhaps blend of globe and blob
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Parts of speech for Glob
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preposition
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exclamation
glob popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
glob usage trend in Literature
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Antonyms for glob
noun glob
- nib — his/her nibs, Informal: Often Facetious. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical: His nibs wants fresh strawberries in December.
- birr — to make or cause to make a whirring sound
- nibs — the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
- drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dash — If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
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