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Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories.
Seth Shostak

Meaning of "gobs" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GOBS

gobs  [ɡɒbz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GOBS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gobs 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 GOBS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of gobs in the English dictionary

The definition of gobs in the dictionary is a great quantity or amount.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GOBS


Hobbes
hɒbz
Hobbs
hɒbz
mobs
mɒbz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GOBS

gobbler
gobbo
gobby
Gobelin
Gobi
Gobi Desert
Gobian
gobies
gobiid
Gobind Singh
gobioid
goblet
goblin
gobo
gobony
gobshite
gobsmacked
gobstopper
goburra
goby

WORDS THAT END LIKE GOBS

abs
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clubs
combs
crabs
crumbs
Cubs
Doubs
Gibbs
Krebs
man boobs
May blobs
moobs
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odd jobs
Proverbs
scrubs
Stubbs
subs
up for grabs

Synonyms and antonyms of gobs in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GOBS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gobs» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of gobs
blob · chunk · clod · gobbet · hunk · lump · nugget · piece · wad · wodge

Translation of «gobs» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GOBS

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

Translator English - Chinese

采空区
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pegotes
570 millions of speakers

English

gobs
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

gobs
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كتل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уйма
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bocas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

gobs
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

paraisons
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penjara
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Posten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ゴブ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

수병
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gobs
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gobs
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

gobs
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

श्रीमंत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gobs
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gobs
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

krople
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

уйма
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

șarjele
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σβώλων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gobs
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

klumpar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gobs
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gobs

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GOBS»

The term «gobs» is regularly used and occupies the 77.748 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GOBS» OVER TIME

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

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6 QUOTES WITH «GOBS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gobs.
1
Bonnie Bassler
Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in bacteria. And you're breathing in bacteria all the time, and you mostly don't get sick.
2
Donna Brazile
If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
3
Stewart O'Nan
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.
4
Miranda Richardson
London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.
5
Seth Shostak
Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories.
6
Michael Symon
I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOBS»

Discover the use of gobs in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gobs and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Gobs and Gobs of Free Stuff
Includes information on how to obtain a variety of free or low-cost items, information and services from the government.
Matthew Lesko, Mary Ann Martello, 1996
2
Blobby-Gobs!: just add water
Bradley loves to share magic tricks with his class, even though they often don't work. Then he sends away for the foolproof Blobby-Gobs, and strange things begin to happen!
W. S. Gilholm, 2001
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Introduction to Discrete Event Systems
We shall call the resulting equivalent deterministic automaton the observer corresponding to the nondeterministic automaton; we will denote the observer of Gnd by Obs(Gnd) and often write Gobs when there is no danger of confusion.
Christos G. Cassandras, Stephane Lafortune, 2008
4
Gravity and Magnetic Exploration: Principles, Practices, and ...
Here the respective free-air and simple Bouguer gravity anomaly equations, assuming no gravitationally significant bathymetric changes, are gFAA I gobs — gmod I gob. + 2rrGaswd — (g9 + 0.3086d _ 27106,,71) : gm _ g9 _ 0.3086d + 47706, ...
William J. Hinze, Ralph R. B. von Frese, R. Von Frese, 2013
5
Samuel's Journey: Another Surprise
gobS. and. gobS”. Every year we picked strawberries in the meadow. No one planted them. They just grew wild in clusters and patches. After walking for about one mile, the meadow grass came into view. The grass was about knee-high to ...
Emma Marie Trusty, 2013
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Statistical and Evolutionary Analysis of Biological Networks
2.4.4. Approximate Bayesian computation Likelihood-free inference (LFI) confers computational tractability by comparing simulated data G to the observed data GObs instead of calculating the likelihood directly. Approximate Bayesian ...
‎2010
7
Visual Information Representation, Communication, and Image ...
It is found that two GOBs can provide a pleasant looking display of a user. Thus, the system can accommodate up to six users. When the number of participants is four or less, the coded-domain combiner can take all the GOBs in each input ...
Ya-Qin Zhang, 1999
8
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
[bréme] gobs-033m (A0, CP) =gubringan go'brongneu sf. food, support. gobs- 60w“ sv2. to brew. A0. gum-ind? ptc. explained. A viii. 306. gebrioezgebryce gagridllnn wv. to bridle, curb. zebrlongm=gebringan gobs-111m wv. to brighten, adorn.
J.R. Hall
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The Impact of the Economic Crisis on East Asia: Policy ...
The first stream directly compares performance between GOBs and POBs, while the second examines government bank performance after privatization. The present survey demonstrates that the GOB effect typically exists in developing ...
Daigee Shaw, Bih Jane Liu, 2011
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The Recruit: A Pictorial Naval Magazine
Miss Brown — Muscatine ! Rully, now isn't that owfully singular. Flossie Smith, the little girl with the light hair and blue crepe de chene gown under the chandelier knows just gobs and gobs of people in Muscatine. I'll take you over and you can ...
‎1919

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOBS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gobs is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Who Won Comic-Con? Day 4: Trudging through TV day, plus final …
... seconds; padding out the run time with gobs of empty foreboding; and remaining totally loyal to its overwrought yet thuddingly dull mythology. «The Verge, Jul 15»
2
At city's water plant, a dog named Duck Dynasty roams and reigns
“If it weren't for him, I'd still be dealing with gobs of goose poop,” he said. kevans@timesdispatch.com. (804) 649-6922. Thank you for reading ... «Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jul 15»
3
Love Is Blind, and So Are the Courtney Love Haters
Some hate Love for having no filter, but parse old interviews and you'll find gobs of salient advice and deadly one-liners—“Why cower from the ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
4
Collecting - The Clark Nova Express: Horror Fanzines, the Mimeo …
... giving away the basic American rottenness spurting out like breaking boils, throwing out gobs of that un-D.T. to fall anywhere and grow into some degenerate ... «ILAB, Jul 15»
5
From $3 to $300 what's your beauty budget?
“I'm not a fan of these topical creams that people buy gobs of because they think they have got to work because they are so expensive.”. «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
6
The transactional Bill de Blasio
The mayor has a nonprofit that collects gobs of donations to support his policy initiatives, and the American Federation of Teachers is its biggest ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
7
Ant-Man, Blade and a ton of other additions coming to Marvel …
If you'd like to try your hand at winning $5,000 or just want to check out the gobs of new content coming to Marvel Heroes 2015, you can check ... «Polygon, Jul 15»
8
With consumer demand soft, 3-D printing goes back to school
Regular people, it turns out, were less excited by the idea of a device that could turn gobs of melted plastic into toys, art, and spare parts for ... «BetaBoston, Jul 15»
9
Suzy Jo Donuts to move from Blue Bell to East Norriton
... Township, requiring more of a trek for area customers to sink their teeth into the deep-fried gobs of goodness known as Suzy Jo Donuts. «Montgomery Newspapers, Jul 15»
10
Small fireworks may be legal, but they require care
They don't send out gobs of colored fire or spin through the air in showers of sparks like Roman candles and spinners, also illegal. Despite the ... «Glens Falls Post-Star, Jul 15»

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