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    A glob is a small, roundish amount of something soft, wet, or sticky — ketchup, glue, cream, mud. It does not have a clean edge; it sits there in a lump. People say a glob of peanut butter or a glob of paint.

    A glob is a small, roundish amount of something soft, wet, or stickyGlob是一小坨圓圓的、軟軟的、濕濕的、或黏黏的東西 ketchup, glue, cream, mud像番茄醬、膠水、奶油、泥巴 It does not have a clean edge它沒有整齊的邊緣 it sits there in a lump就是一坨堆在那裡 People say a glob of peanut butter or a glob of paint大家會說「a glob of peanut butter(一坨花生醬)」或「a glob of paint(一坨油漆)」

    It is informal, home-and-kitchen English, not the word a scientist would choose in a paper (they might say droplet or ).

    It is informal, home-and-kitchen English這是比較口語、家常廚房用的英文 not the word a scientist would choose in a paper不是科學家寫論文會選的字 they might say droplet or globule他們可能會說droplet或globule

    You can also use it as a verb, more loosely: to glob something on means to put it on in a thick, careless lump. Though actually, glob is a messy word in origin too: it may be blob and gob pushed together, or a short form of , and the sound itself already feels wet and , like .

    You can also use it as a verb, more loosely你也可以比較鬆散地把它當動詞用: to glob something on means to put it on in a thick, careless lumpglob something on的意思是把東西厚厚地、隨便地糊上去 Though actually不過其實 glob is a messy word in origin tooglob這個字的來源本身也很「亂」: it may be blob and gob pushed together它可能是blob和gob合在一起 or a short form of globule或是globule的簡稱 and the sound itself already feels wet and lumpy, like glop而且這個發音聽起來本來就濕濕黏黏的,像glop一樣

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組成Does not split. Possibly a blend of blob + gob, or a shortened globule. Sound is doing some of the work: words like glop, blob, and lump feel similar.

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globnoun詞源 1/ɡlɑb/

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    A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.

    • He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
    • 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.
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    biologynatural-sciencesA millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

globverb詞源 1/ɡlɑb/

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    To stick in globs or lumps.

    • […] 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.

globnoun詞源 2/ɡlɑb/

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    computingengineeringmathematicsA limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.

globverb詞源 2/ɡlɑb/

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    computingengineeringmathematicsTo carry out pattern matching using a glob.

    • In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all.

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