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Meaning of "glob" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GLOB

Probably from globe, influenced by blob.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GLOB

glob  [ɡlɒb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GLOB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Glob is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GLOB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of glob in the English dictionary

The definition of glob in the dictionary is a rounded mass of some thick fluid or pliable substance.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GLOB


blob
blɒb
flob
flɒb
lob
lɒb
slob
slɒb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GLOB

gloatingly
global
global community
global dimming
global positioning system
global product
global reach
global rule
global search
global village
global warming
globalism
globalist
globalization
globalize
globally
globate
globated
globby
globe

WORDS THAT END LIKE GLOB

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 glob in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «glob» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GLOB

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

Translator English - Chinese

GLOB
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

glob
570 millions of speakers

English

glob
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

glob
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غلوب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Глоб
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

glob
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উল্লিখিত glob
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

glob
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Glob
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

glob
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

小滴
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

glob에
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Glob
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

glob
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

க்ளோப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ग्लोब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

topak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

glob
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

glob
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Глоб
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

glob
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

glob
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

glob
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

glob
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

glob
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of glob

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GLOB»

The term «glob» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.666 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GLOB» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «glob» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «glob» 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 glob

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QUOTES WITH «GLOB»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word glob.
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Anthony Daniels
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLOB»

Discover the use of glob in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to glob and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved
This classic book about the remains of iron-age people preserved in peat-bogs throws fascinating light on ancient ways of life, religion and rituals.
Peter Vilhelm Glob, 2010
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Electronic Materials Handbook: Packaging
Glob-Top Encapsulants A glob-top encapsulant is usually a highly viscous liquid (or paste) that encapsulates either a microelectronic device directly mounted on a printed wiring board (PWB) or a hybrid assembled on a substrate (ceramic) ...
‎1989
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The Adventures of Quacky Taffy and the Mysterious Glob
The Glob still slimes towards them at full speed. The closer and closer the Glob gets, the more Quacky Taffy's left eye starts to twitch, Milk-Man gets closer to his side. The Glob is just a foot away from them; the Glob then roars making the ...
Kyle Wolff
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Janice VanCleave's 204 Sticky, Gloppy, Wacky, and Wonderful ...
Do not eat borax or the glob produced. Follow the precautions printed on the borax container. Procedure NOTE.' The glob made in this experiment can stain furniture and stick to cloth or carpet. Keep it off furniture and clean it off cloth or carpet ...
Janice VanCleave, 2002
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Learning Perl
Randal Schwartz, brian foy, Tom Phoenix. In fact, anything you can say on the command line, you can also put as the (single) argument to glob, including multiple patterns separated by spaces: my ...
Randal Schwartz, brian foy, Tom Phoenix, 2011
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Pro Perl
Peter Wainwright. Table 13-10. File:.'Glob Import Tags Label Function :glob Import symbols for the flags ofglob's optional flag argument. See Table 13-11 for a list and description of each flag. :case Treat the file glob pattern as case sensitive.
Peter Wainwright, 2005
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Programming Python
The glob module The term globbing comes from the * wildcard character in filename patterns; per computing folklore, a * matches a “glob” of characters. In less poetic terms, globbing simply means collecting the names of all entries in a ...
Mark Lutz, 2010
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LIFE
On these and the following pages LIFE presents an account of what may have happened several million years ago to a blob (or Glob) of sea-borne protoplasm that got ambitions to romp in the green grass. The fable of The Glob roughly ...
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High-Performance Polymer...
Materials for glob-top encapsulation (Fig. 1.7B) are generally delivered as pre- mixed resin-hardener systems packaged in dispensing syringes preserved at low temperature. This implies the use of liquid epoxy resins such as the diglycidyl ...
Guy Rabilloud
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Hadoop: The Definitive Guide: The Definitive Guide
... specified to restrict the matches further. Hadoop supports the same set of glob characters as Unix bash (see Table 3-2). Table 3-2. Glob characters and their meanings Glob * ? 60 | Chapter3: The Hadoop Distributed Filesystem File patterns.
Tom White, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GLOB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term glob is used in the context of the following news items.
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Stocks to Watch: Globant S.A. (NYSE:GLOB), The Wendy's …
Globant S.A. (NYSE:GLOB) belongs to Technology sector. Its net profit margin is 13.90% and weekly performance is 3.06%. On last trading day ... «Stock Transcript, Jul 15»
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Recap for Traders: Globant S.A. (NYSE:GLOB), O2Micro …
Globant S.A. (NYSE:GLOB) caters to the Technology space. It has a net profit margin of 13.90% and weekly performance is 3.06%. On the last ... «Property Mentor, Jul 15»
3
The renewed lure of king salmon draws urban fishermen in …
She baited her hook with a dime-sized glob of bowhead whale fat. Back home she had fished in silence and solitude, catching long whitefish ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
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Your ultimate go-to guide for yogurt is here!
The healthiest way to sweeten your yogurt is to simply mix chunks of fruit in the low-fat version or add a glob of honey to it.Don't blend, just ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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Momentum Stock Focus: Globant S.A. (NYSE:GLOB)
Globant S.A. (NYSE:GLOB) has been given a top momentum style rating by Zacks Research. This rating is an indicator of when a stock might ... «Enterprise Leader, Jul 15»
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Pre-Market News Analysis on: Check Point Software Technologies …
Globant S.A. (GLOB), a new-breed technology services provider focused on delivering innovative software solutions, recently declared the ... «wsnewspublishers, Jul 15»
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Record industry brings in new music global release day
Toast of UK critics, Years & Years, celebrate album launch on same day record industry kicks off New Music Friday where all singles and ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
8
Marco Rubio Defends Pro-Life Fight; Challenges 'Pro-Choice' Position
He also defended the idea that a human embryo was a person, not just a glob of tissue or a collection of cells. “If it's not a person, what is it? «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
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Globant Announces Filing Of Annual Report On Form 20-F For …
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Globant GLOB, +7.52% a ... Globant GLOB, +7.52% is a new-breed technology services ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
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When tragedy hit the Tamar
He said the ship discharged another large glob of oil during efforts to haul it off the reef using tugs. Booms had to be deployed in a desperate effort to stop the ... «Perth Now, Jul 15»

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