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English

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Etymology 1

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This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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.[1])

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. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

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glob (plural globs)

  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.
    • 2023, Trang Thanh Tran, She is a Haunting, →ISBN:
      The windows stay stubbornly shut and keep in a sweltering heat. It’s been three days, but it seems longer—slow, like the time I imagine it’d take to melt a house of this size into a wax glob.
  2. (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
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Verb

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glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)

  1. To stick in globs or lumps.
    • 2024, Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane, page 58:
      […] 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.

Etymology 2

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Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.

Noun

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Examples
  • *.json
  • files/**/*.txt

glob (plural globs)

  1. (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.

Verb

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glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)

  1. (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
    • 2000, Jon Lasser, Think Unix, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 123:
      In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all.

References

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  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 359

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Malay

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Etymology

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From English globe, from late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, from Latin globus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ɡlop]
  • Rhymes: -op
  • Hyphenation: glob

Noun

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glob (Jawi spelling ݢلوب)

  1. A globe (spherical model of Earth).

Further reading

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  • "glob" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
    (also see "glob" at PRPM first version)

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl
glob

Etymology

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    Borrowed from French globe.[1] Doublet of globus.

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    Noun

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    glob m inan (related adjective globowy)

    1. (countable, astronomy) globe, planet (large celestial body belonging to a planetary system)
      Synonym: planeta
      Hypernym: ciało niebieskie
    2. (uncountable) globe (planet on which people live; Earth in reference only to the planet without its gaseous envelope)
      Synonym: ziemia
      Hypernym: planeta

    Declension

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    Declension of glob
    singular plural
    nominative glob globy
    genitive globu globów
    dative globowi globom
    accusative glob globy
    instrumental globem globami
    locative globie globach
    vocative globie globy

    References

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    1. ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “glob”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN

    Further reading

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    • “glob”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • “glob”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)
    • glob in PWN's encyclopedia

    Romanian

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French globe, from Latin globus.

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    glob n (plural globuri)

    1. globe (all senses)

    Declension

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    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative glob globul globuri globurile
    genitive-dative glob globului globuri globurilor
    vocative globule globurilor

    Swedish

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    Etymology

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    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

    Noun

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    glob c

    1. a globe

    Declension

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    Declension of glob
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite glob globs
    definite globen globens
    plural indefinite glober globers
    definite globerna globernas
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