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How to pronounce glob in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ball, chunk, clod, clump, lump
Type of agglomeration
Has types clew, clot, coagulum, gob

Examples of glob

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Including the whites in place of the yolks resulted in a glob of chocolate glue.
From the dailyherald.com
His only meat is a benign glob of fat, drooping ever lower from his narrow chest.
From the courier-journal.com
Rare lamb loin got a side of dry beans and a glob of gluey goat-cheese ravioli.
From the bloomberg.com
Ant walks along the edge of the closet, I put a glob at the edge of the closet.
From the emotionalumbrella.com
Once I opened it up, I saw fat around the guts and a glob coating the gizzard.
From the theatlantic.com
A second assistant carries over a small glob of molten crystal for the handle.
From the time.com
It is no where like a glob of black tar the road repair guys use to pave your road.
From the guardian.co.uk
One group of oyster shells a child picked up had a small glob of eggs on it.
From the thenewstribune.com
We recognize that he was the only idol, entertaining people around the glob.
From the voanews.com
More examples
  • Ball: a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"
  • Glob is the name of multiple fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe.
  • In computer programming, the verb glob or globbing is used to refer to an instance of pattern matching behavior. The noun "glob" is used to refer to a particular pattern, e.g. "use the glob *.log to match all those log files".
  • Glob is an Italian television comedy produced by Enrico Bertolino which addresses the language of communication used by the mass media and other such topics. The show offers numerous observations on the poor communication of television journalists.
  • Globs are millimeter-sized color modules found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's color processing ventral (also known as parvocellular) pathway. They are scattered throughout the posterior inferior temporal cortex in an area called the V4 complex. ...
  • The Glob is a platform arcade game released by Epos in 1983.
  • A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance; A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; To stick in globs or lumps; To carry out pattern matching using a glob
  • (Globs) (or 'typeglobs') are symbol tables. They associate a reference to another variable with a global name. A glob is prepended by '*', e.g. *colors. The most common use of a glob is as a filehandle, such as open *FILE, $filename. Other uses include aliasing global variables, *colour = $color.
  • Strictly, the shell's * character, which will match a "glob" of characters when you're trying to generate a list of filenames. Loosely, the act of using globs and similar symbols to do pattern matching. See also fileglob and typeglob.