globed
English
globe
Noun
(en noun )
Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
- the globe”’ of the eye; the ”’globe of a lamp
The planet Earth.
- (John Locke)
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A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
(dated, or, Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
* 1920 , Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 (page 26)
- Don’t ask for a new globe just because the old one needs dusting. The old-style carbon lamps wasted electricity when they began to fade and it was economy to replace them.
A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
* Milton
- Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.
Synonyms
* (The Earth) Earth, world, Terra, Sol III
Derived terms
* globe-trotter
* show globe
* snowglobe
Verb
(glob)
To become spherical
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globbed
English
glob
English
Noun
(en noun )
A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
- He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
(programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
(biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain’s parvocellular pathway.
Verb
To stick in globs or lumps.
(programming) To carry out pattern matching using a .
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