glob

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English

Etymology

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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, blob, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.[1])

In the programming sense, originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; short for global.

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. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Noun

glob (plural globs)

  1. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
    He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
  2. (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
  3. (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

See also

Verb

glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)

  1. To stick in globs or lumps.
    Paint was globbing off the wall.
  2. (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 359

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Anagrams

Malay

Etymology

From English globe, from late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, from Latin globus.

Pronunciation

Noun

glob (Jawi spelling ݢلوب)

  1. A globe (spherical model of Earth).

Further reading

Polish

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glob

Etymology

Borrowed from French globe.[1] Doublet of globus.

Pronunciation

Noun

glob m inan (related adjective globowy)

  1. (countable, astronomy) globe, planet (large celestial body belonging to a planetary system)
    Synonym: planeta
    Hypernym: ciało niebieskie
  2. (uncountable) globe (planet on which people live; Earth in reference only to the planet without its gaseous envelope)
    Synonym: ziemia
    Hypernym: planeta

Declension

References

  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “glob”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN

Further reading

  • glob in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • glob in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • glob in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French globe, from Latin globus.

Noun

glob n (plural globuri)

  1. globe (all senses)

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

glob c

  1. a globe

Declension