glob — English Dictionary

Noun

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

   Examples

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

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   The windows stay stubbornly shut and keep in a sweltering heat. It’s been three days, but it seems longer—slow, like the time I imagine it’d take to melt a house of this size into a wax glob.

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

Verb

1. To stick in globs or lumps.

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   […] paint globbed on the canvas, marring the careful shadowing he'd created on the snowbank. It was an amateurish mistake, completely unworthy of an artist of Teddy's skill.

Noun

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

Verb

1. To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

   Examples

   In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all.

Noun

1. a compact mass

   Synonyms

   ballclodlumpclumpchunk

   Broader terms

   agglomeration

   Examples

   a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder