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.

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   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.

   2023, Trang Thanh Tran, She is a Haunting, →ISBN

2. biologyA millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

present singular third person globs · participle present globbing · participle past globbed · past globbed

1. 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.

   2024, Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane, page 58

plural globs

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

present singular third person globs · participle present globbing · participle past globbed · past globbed

1. computingTo carry out pattern matching using a glob.

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

   2000, Jon Lasser, Think Unix, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 123