glob

FREQ #46386

n. 一滴,一小滴水珠, (可塑性物质的)一团

发音

US /ɡlɑb/
UK /ɡlɒb/

词形变化

globs 复数 globs 三单 globbing 现在分词 globbed 过去式 globbed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.

    He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.

  2. 2.

    A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

    生物
  3. 1.

    A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.

    计算机 工程 数学
v.
  1. 1.

    To stick in globs or lumps.

  2. 1.

    To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

    计算机 工程 数学

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

ball lump chunk clump clod

上位词 1

agglomeration

下位词 4

clot gob clew coagulum

相关短语

oh my glob

词源

Possibly a blend of blob + gob, or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, lob, blob, lump, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.) 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.

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