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1. (n.) glob
a drop or globule of a liquid.
2. glob
a usu. rounded quantity or lump of some plastic or moldable substance:
a glob of whipped cream.
Etymology: (1895–1900; perh. b. globe and blob)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk
a compact mass
"a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"
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1. (noun) glob
a sticky mass without a definite shape
globs of oil from the sinking ship washing up on shore
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. glob
[Unix; common] To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or
the act of so doing (the action is also called globbing). The Unix conventions for filename
wildcarding have become sufficiently pervasive that many hackers use some
of them in written English, especially in email or news on technical
topics. Those commonly encountered include the following:Some examples: “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. Note that glob
patterns are similar, but not identical, to those used in
regexps. Historical note: The jargon usage derives from glob, the name of a subprogram that expanded
wildcards in archaic pre-Bourne versions of the Unix shell.
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