ALL meanings of glob
glob
G g - noun glob drop or blob of viscous liquid 1
- 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 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
- noun glob A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance. 0
- noun glob (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression. 0
- noun glob (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway. 0
- verb glob To stick in globs or lumps. 0
- verb glob (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob. 0
- countable noun glob A glob of something soft or liquid is a small round amount of it. 0
- noun glob a rounded mass of some thick fluid or pliable substance 0
- noun glob a somewhat rounded mass or lump, as of jelly or grease 0