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語源 1

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Possibly a blend of blob +‎ gob, or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, lob, blob, lump, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.)

In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour. (Can this etymology be sourced?)

名詞

glob (plural globs)

1. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.

   He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.

2. (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

派生語

動詞

glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)

1. To stick in globs or lumps.
   • 2024, Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane, page 58:

     […] 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.

語源 2

Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.

名詞

glob (plural globs)

1. (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.

動詞

glob (third-person singular simple present globs, present participle globbing, simple past and past participle globbed)

1. (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
   • 2000, Jon Lasser, Think Unix, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 123:

     In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all.

参照

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “glob”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• glob (programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Blog, GLBO, LGBO, blog