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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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(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
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