glob
glob Lexical Profile
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• noun
A small, rounded lump or mass of a thick liquid or malleable substance.
"She squeezed a generous glob of blue paint onto the wooden palette."
In computing, a pattern containing wildcard characters used to match multiple filenames or paths.
"You can use a file glob in the terminal command to select all text documents in the directory at once."
• verb
To apply, drop, or gather in thick, rounded lumps or masses.
"The toddler began to glob glue all over the construction paper."
To match or expand filenames and paths using wildcard patterns (in computing).
"The command-line shell will automatically glob the asterisks before passing the arguments to the script."
• Rhymes for glob
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the early 20th century, likely as a blend of 'blob' and 'gob' or influenced by 'globule'. In computing, 'glob' originated as a shorthand for 'global' in early Unix systems to expand wildcard characters across filenames.