glob

G0152100 (glŏb)n.1. A small drop; a globule.2. A soft thick lump or mass: a glob of mashed potatoes; globs of red mud.

[Middle English globbe, large mass, from Latin globus, globular mass.]

glob

(ɡlɒb) ninformal a rounded mass of some thick fluid or pliable substance: a glob of cream. [C20: probably from globe, influenced by blob]

glob

(glɒb)

n. 1. a drop or globule of a liquid. 2. a usu. rounded quantity or lump of some plastic or moldable substance: a glob of whipped cream. [1895–1900; perhaps b. globe and blob]

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Noun

glob - a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"chunk, clod, lump, clump, ballclot, coagulum - a lump of material formed from the content of a liquidagglomeration - a jumbled collection or massgob - a lump of slimy stuff; "a gob of phlegm"clew - a ball of yarn or cord or thread

Translations

goccia densa

glob

/glob/, *not* /glohb/ To expand wild card characters in apath name.

In Unix the file name wild cards are:

* = zero or more characters (E.g. UN*X)

? = any single character

[] any of the enclosed characters

indicate alternation of comma-separated alternatives, thusfoobaz,qux would expand to "foobaz" or "fooqux". Thissyntax generates a list of all possible expansions, ratherthan matching one.

These have become sufficiently pervasive that hackers use themin written English, especially in electronic mail orUsenet news on technical topics. E.g. "He said his name was[KC]arl" (expresses ambiguity). "I don't readtalk.politics.*" (any of the talk.politics subgroups onUsenet). Other examples are given under the entry for X.Note that glob patterns are similar, but not identical, tothose used in regexps.

"glob" was a subprogram that expanded wild cards in archaicpre-Bourne versions of the Unix shell.

Acronym

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GLOB➣Ground Loving Old Bastard

GLOB➣Generation Line of Business (British Columbia Hydro; Canada)

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noun a compact mass

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