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单词 glob
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Definition of glob in English:

glob

noun ɡlɒbɡlɑb
informal
  • A lump of a semi-liquid substance.

    〈非正式〉(半液体物质的)一块

    thick globs of mozzarella cheese

    一块块厚厚的莫泽雷勒干酪。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Both blue lights were starting to get dim and looked like moving globs of dark shadow.
    • Each bit has a home, like paint spread thickly across a canvas instead of in globs dropped here and there.
    • The lower strata abound in delicate, floating creatures, as well as spherical globs.
    • We did not want to splash our camera protection glasses with mud droplets, messing our photos with globs.
    • Jim, looking resigned, walked toward the finish line as the snow turned to fat globs of freezing rain.
    • I notice a little glob of something at the crown of her head.
    • It is difficult to start writing about something as seemingly insignificant as a few buttery globs of oil paint, but my addiction to those colourful panes runs deep.
    • The boys attack each other with globs of paint, while the real enemy lurks offscreen.
    • The cook in the open kitchen rolled out the spongy dough to a large rectangle on the low table, spread out globs of softened butter and generously sprinkled on brown sugar and cinnamon.
    • There are no smidgens in my family: there are dollops, handfuls, and globs.
    • I'll just break it down for you into little bite size globs.
    • On the other hand, you don't have to be there when the next owner looks at the glob of paint on the cupboard, and thinks: incompetent.
    • The ice cream itself is fine, but instead of having little bits of marshmallow strewn randomly throughout, it has great big globs of marshmallow stuck more or less in the center.
    • Oh, and glasses don't stop globs of plaster getting in your eyes after all.
    • A friend of things draws our attention to this delicacy, ‘a cheesy glob of friend cornmeal the size of a small lemon.’
    • The gold can occur in fractures, seams, masses, or small globs.
    • Strapping it around his waist, he took two globs of slimy substance and pasted them onto the doors.
    • The petit fours are little globs of chocolatey butter and jolly fine for all that.
    • It suggests a need for consciousness, for mind, for something that is more than just a collection of synapses in a glob of gray-matter.
    • The steel counter is littered with packets of sugar and globs of chocolate syrup and latte foam.
    Synonyms
    droplet, drop, dewdrop, bead, tear, ball, bubble, pearl, particle

Origin

Early 20th century: perhaps a blend of blob and gob1.

Rhymes

blob, bob, cob, dob, fob, gob, hob, job, lob, mob, nob, rob, slob, snob, sob, squab, stob, swab, throb, yob

Definition of glob in US English:

glob

nounɡläbɡlɑb
informal
  • A lump of a semiliquid substance.

    〈非正式〉(半液体物质的)一块

    thick globs of melted mozzarella cheese

    一块块厚厚的莫泽雷勒干酪。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I notice a little glob of something at the crown of her head.
    • Jim, looking resigned, walked toward the finish line as the snow turned to fat globs of freezing rain.
    • The ice cream itself is fine, but instead of having little bits of marshmallow strewn randomly throughout, it has great big globs of marshmallow stuck more or less in the center.
    • We did not want to splash our camera protection glasses with mud droplets, messing our photos with globs.
    • Both blue lights were starting to get dim and looked like moving globs of dark shadow.
    • There are no smidgens in my family: there are dollops, handfuls, and globs.
    • The gold can occur in fractures, seams, masses, or small globs.
    • Oh, and glasses don't stop globs of plaster getting in your eyes after all.
    • I'll just break it down for you into little bite size globs.
    • The lower strata abound in delicate, floating creatures, as well as spherical globs.
    • Strapping it around his waist, he took two globs of slimy substance and pasted them onto the doors.
    • It is difficult to start writing about something as seemingly insignificant as a few buttery globs of oil paint, but my addiction to those colourful panes runs deep.
    • A friend of things draws our attention to this delicacy, ‘a cheesy glob of friend cornmeal the size of a small lemon.’
    • The steel counter is littered with packets of sugar and globs of chocolate syrup and latte foam.
    • Each bit has a home, like paint spread thickly across a canvas instead of in globs dropped here and there.
    • On the other hand, you don't have to be there when the next owner looks at the glob of paint on the cupboard, and thinks: incompetent.
    • The cook in the open kitchen rolled out the spongy dough to a large rectangle on the low table, spread out globs of softened butter and generously sprinkled on brown sugar and cinnamon.
    • The boys attack each other with globs of paint, while the real enemy lurks offscreen.
    • The petit fours are little globs of chocolatey butter and jolly fine for all that.
    • It suggests a need for consciousness, for mind, for something that is more than just a collection of synapses in a glob of gray-matter.
    Synonyms
    droplet, drop, dewdrop, bead, tear, ball, bubble, pearl, particle

Origin

Early 20th century: perhaps a blend of blob and gob.

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