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Glob
Definitions
- 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 A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.
- 3 a compact mass wordnet
- 4 A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
- 1 To stick in globs or lumps.
"[…] paint globbed on the canvas, marring the careful shadowing he'd created on the snowbank. It was an amateurish mistake, completely unworthy of an artist of Teddy's skill."
- 2 To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
"In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all."
Etymology
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, lob, blob, lump, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.) 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.
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, lob, blob, lump, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.) 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.
Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.
Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.
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