According to WorldAtlas, Finland is the biggest coffee consumer in the entire world. The average Finn will consume 12 kg of coffee each year.
GLOB
ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk
(noun) a compact mass; “a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour.
Noun
glob (plural globs)
A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
(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
glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)
To stick in globs or lumps.
(programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
Anagrams
• Blog, blog
Source: Wiktionary
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