glob
Collocations
2VERB + GLOB
put
PREP.
into
Definitions
noun
A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
verb
To stick in globs or lumps.
[…] 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
A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.
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3He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
Wiktionary[…] 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.
WiktionaryIn filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all.
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