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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLOB

Probably of imitative origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FLOB

flob  [flɒb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLOB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Flob is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb flob in English.

WHAT DOES FLOB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of flob in the English dictionary

The definition of flob in the dictionary is Word forms: flobs, flobbing, flobbed to spit.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FLOB

PRESENT

Present
I flob
you flob
he/she/it flobs
we flob
you flob
they flob
Present continuous
I am flobbing
you are flobbing
he/she/it is flobbing
we are flobbing
you are flobbing
they are flobbing
Present perfect
I have flobbed
you have flobbed
he/she/it has flobbed
we have flobbed
you have flobbed
they have flobbed
Present perfect continuous
I have been flobbing
you have been flobbing
he/she/it has been flobbing
we have been flobbing
you have been flobbing
they have been flobbing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I flobbed
you flobbed
he/she/it flobbed
we flobbed
you flobbed
they flobbed
Past continuous
I was flobbing
you were flobbing
he/she/it was flobbing
we were flobbing
you were flobbing
they were flobbing
Past perfect
I had flobbed
you had flobbed
he/she/it had flobbed
we had flobbed
you had flobbed
they had flobbed
Past perfect continuous
I had been flobbing
you had been flobbing
he/she/it had been flobbing
we had been flobbing
you had been flobbing
they had been flobbing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will flob
you will flob
he/she/it will flob
we will flob
you will flob
they will flob
Future continuous
I will be flobbing
you will be flobbing
he/she/it will be flobbing
we will be flobbing
you will be flobbing
they will be flobbing
Future perfect
I will have flobbed
you will have flobbed
he/she/it will have flobbed
we will have flobbed
you will have flobbed
they will have flobbed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been flobbing
you will have been flobbing
he/she/it will have been flobbing
we will have been flobbing
you will have been flobbing
they will have been flobbing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would flob
you would flob
he/she/it would flob
we would flob
you would flob
they would flob
Conditional continuous
I would be flobbing
you would be flobbing
he/she/it would be flobbing
we would be flobbing
you would be flobbing
they would be flobbing
Conditional perfect
I would have flob
you would have flob
he/she/it would have flob
we would have flob
you would have flob
they would have flob
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been flobbing
you would have been flobbing
he/she/it would have been flobbing
we would have been flobbing
you would have been flobbing
they would have been flobbing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you flob
we let´s flob
you flob
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to flob
Past participle
flobbed
Present Participle
flobbing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLOB


blob
blɒb
glob
ɡlɒb
lob
lɒb
slob
slɒb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLOB

floating policy
floating restaurant
floating rib
floating vote
floating voter
floating-point representation
floating-rate note
floatingly
floats
floaty
flobbed
flobbing
floc
flocci
floccillation
floccose
flocculant
floccular
flocculate
flocculation

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLOB

blow job
bob
boob
cob
dob
fob
gob
handjob
hob
Jacob
job
knob
mob
nob
noob
on the job
on-the-job
rob
snob
sob

Synonyms and antonyms of flob in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «flob» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLOB

Find out the translation of flob to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of flob from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flob» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

flob
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

flob
570 millions of speakers

English

flob
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

flob
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

flob
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

flob
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

flob
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

flob
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

flob
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Flob
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Flob
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

flob
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

flob
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Flob
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

flob
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

flob
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्लॉब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

flob
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

flob
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

FLOB
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

flob
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

FLOB
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

flob
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

FLOB
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flob
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

FLOB
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of flob

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLOB»

The term «flob» is regularly used and occupies the 94.769 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of flob
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «flob».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FLOB» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «flob» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «flob» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about flob

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLOB»

Discover the use of flob in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flob and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Uncontracted Negatives and Negative Contractions in ...
FLOB BrE 1990s W Cat J Shall Shall not Pronoun simple FLOB BrE 1990s W CatK Be 're not Pronoun simple FLOB BrE 1990s W CatK Have Have not Pronoun simple FLOB BrE 1990s W CatK Have Haven't NP simple FLOB BrE 1990s W ...
Castillo González, Ma Pilar
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Appraisals of Original Wind Music: A Survey and Guide
112ob 2hn 2vnvc El 20 fl2ob 2hn sq E120 flobcaclbn E84.93 flobcaclbn hn E103 flobcaclbn hntp E104 flobcaclbn E84,93,96 flob+caclsxbn E103 fl ob ca bn hn pf E 37 flobcaclbn hn E103 fl ob cl aca bn hn pf E 37 flobclsxbn hn E102; flobclhn ...
David Lindsey Clark, 1999
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English Mediopassive Constructions: A Cognitive, ...
They contain material published in 1961. FLOB and Frown are their 1991 and 1992 counterparts.3 Only five of the 30 verbs turned out to occur with a frequency sufficient to merit detailed discussion:4 for establish, read, reduce, sell and wear,  ...
Marianne Hundt, 2007
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By woman's wit: a comedietta in one act
FLOB. I can't. There's papa to be consulted. HUN. Yes ; but if the Alderman is willing, may I tell him that you love me? FLOB. I don't know. (Reflectively.) Perhaps I had better talk to papa. I can say more to him than to you. HUN. Oh, Florence — I ...
A. Louis Elliston, 1903
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Corpus-linguistic Applications: Current Studies, New Directions
In order to better understand how these features together distinguish DaSciTex and FLOB, we have used them to train a classifier based on a linear support vector machine and clustered them based on K-means. See Table 2 below for the ...
Stefan Thomas Gries, Stefanie Wulff, Mark Davies, 2010
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The Integration of MILLION Into the English System of Number ...
In the case of LOB to FLOB, the change is more dramatic. The total number of instances increases by 148, from 176 (lower than Brown's 257) to 324 (higher than Frown's 293), representing a rise of 84 percent in FLOB over LOB. The Money ...
Donald Sims MacQueen, 2010
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Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000.: Selected ...
The Flob n-gram ranking was then compared to the others. We used Flob as the standard against which the other texts were compared because the IVT/EN texts follow British English most closely in their orthography, vocabulary, etc. Thus, for  ...
Walter Daelemans, Khalil Sima'an, Jorn Veenstra, 2001
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Inversion Written and Spoken Contemporary English.
Composition of the Skills, Trades, and Hobbies category in FLOB and FROWN238 Table 38. Composition of the Popular Lore category in FLOB and FROWN.....................238 Table 39. Composition of the Belles-lettres, Biographies, and Essays ...
Prado Alonso, José Carlos
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Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice
FLOB ́ DaSciTex FLOB ́ t-test SVM standardized TTR 34.0 45.3 29.5 ADV 0.034 0.060 23.8 N 0.33 0.27 −19.0 97% lexical density 8.39 5.76 −18.4 V 0.097 0.12 12.2 the linguistic features realising these properties are a relatively low ...
Lise Fontaine, Tom Bartlett, Gerard O'Grady, 2013
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Incorporating Corpora: The Linguist and the Translator
The results obtained in LOB and FLOB will be used to check the accuracy of my findings from INTERSECT and the trends identified. The aim is to use these results as a reference point: 'Observations based on a translation corpus need to be ...
Gunilla M. Anderman, Margaret Rogers, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLOB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flob is used in the context of the following news items.
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The seven most unacceptable (but basically harmless) things you …
Diego Costa, a modern-day master of the dark arts, shows in this video how to flob on opposition players without getting yourself sent off . «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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SADIE HASLER: All-female comedy show reminded me of how I …
Who was going to chomp Space Raiders into mulsh then flob it on whoever had the newest shoes? Would all that stuff have to stop now that I ... «Echo, May 15»
3
Hamptons Subway has 66812 lightbulbs for sale, Photo …
The cause of it, we learned later, was a call using social media for a “mash flob” on our system at that hour, dreamed up by our new Marketing ... «Dan's Papers, May 15»
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High-waisters: jeans that work at work
Once you've zipped them up, there's no flob-a-lob overspill of muffin-top. The high-waister shovels it all in, compressing squidge behind a long ... «Ottawa Citizen, Apr 15»
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How to wear jeans in the office
Once you've zipped them up, there's no flob-a-lob overspill of muffin-top. The high-waister shovels it all in, compressing squidge behind a long ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
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Corey Kent White sings 'Unwound' on The Voice Top 10 Live …
The lyric flob out there, country music fans knows it really well. But the way you recover in something like that, and it's a sign of a true season ... «Zeibiz, Apr 15»
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Bob Saget Addresses "Full House" Reboot, Tyson Beckford on …
Rosie Perez has been dubbed the First Lady of boxing or as Nicolle Wallace says, FLOB. Her passion and commentary on the sport has ... «ABC TV, Apr 15»
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Top anglers honoured after RBFC Classic competition
At the end of the event, RBFC President Dave "Flob" Roberts announced that the club would change it's name to the Phuket Game Fishing Club ... «The Phuket News, Mar 15»
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Swingin' Through the Slow Burner of Harvey Kurtzman's 'Jungle Book'
Think of Jack Davis' “Flob was a Slob.” Think of John Severin's “Melvin of the Apes.” Think of Wally Wood's “Superduperman!” They were all ... «PopMatters, Mar 15»
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Is spitting at someone really worse than a leg-breaking tackle?
The image of Rijkaard's flob dangling from the West Germany striker's hair is hard to forget. They were both sent off following a tussle on the ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»

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