| 单词 | glob |
| 释义 | glob (once / 41472 pages) n A glob is a shapeless clump or hunk of something. Even the most skilled potter starts out with nothing but a glob of damp clay on her pottery wheel. Globs are soft, squishy, or partly liquid substances — you can't really have a glob of pizza, but you can add a glob of melty mozzarella to the top of a pizza. An artist drops globs of oil paint on her palette, and a chocolate maker fills molds with globs of warm melted chocolate. While we know glob first appeared in print around 1900, its origin isn't clear. It may have imitated words like blob and gob. WORD FAMILYglob: globs USAGE EXAMPLESGlobs of nasty cancer cells extend what looks like a probe, pulsing and reaching out to other cells to pull into a tumor. Washington Times(Nov 05, 2016) The bottle has globs of ketchup here and there; sometimes its lid is askew. The New Yorker(Nov 03, 2016) The fire left behind the charred remains of a circular climbing structure, with globs of yellow and blue melted plastic scattered around the area. Washington Post(Oct 12, 2016) n a compact mass Syn|Hypo|Hyper ball, chunk, clod, clump, lump clot, coagulum a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid goba lump of slimy stuff clewa ball of yarn or cord or thread thrombusa blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin embolusan abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood agglomeration a jumbled collection or mass |
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