lobe
English
Etymology
From French lobe, from New Latin lobus (“a lobe”), from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós, “the lobe of the ear or of the liver, the pod of a leguminous plant”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lobe (plural lobes)
- Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
- A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 19,
- He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors.
- (anatomy) A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung.
- 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
- (figure skating) A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.
Hyponyms
Hyponyms of lobe
- See also Thesaurus:lobe
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form
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division of the brain
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division of the lung
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division of the liver
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See also
- (brain lobes) brain lobe; frontal lobe, occipital lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe (Category: en:Brain)
Further reading
- “lobe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “lobe”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
lobe
- first-person singular present indicative of lober
- third-person singular present indicative of lober
- first-person singular present subjunctive of lober
- third-person singular present subjunctive of lober
- second-person singular imperative of lober
German
Verb
lobe
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of loben.
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of loben.
- (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of loben.
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of loben.
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) lobe
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