noun🔗ShareA round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance."He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting."substancematerialthingamountChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression."The teacher used a glob to search for all files starting with "report_" in the student's folder. "computingtechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway."Researchers are studying the function of each individual glob within the parvocellular pathway to better understand color perception. "physiologyanatomyorganbiologymedicinemindChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo stick in globs or lumps."The child globbed the peanut butter onto his bread, creating big, messy lumps. "masssubstancematerialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo carry out pattern matching using a glob."To find all the science project files, I globbed for filenames containing "volcano." "computingtechnologytechnicalinternetsystemChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
