different between globe vs glome

English

Etymology

From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??b/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?lo?b/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /?lo?b/
• Rhymes: -??b

Noun

globe (plural globes)

1. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.

2. The planet Earth.
   • 1866, John Locke, A System of Theology

     But whatever opinion or theory may be formed by any one, all agree that at some period or other this world has been destroyed by water, and that the proofs of this assertion are found in every part of the globe
3. A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
4. (dated or Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
   • 1920, Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 (page 26)

     Don't ask for a new globe just because the old one needs dusting. The old-style carbon lamps wasted electricity when they began to fade and it was economy to replace them.

5. A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
6. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
7. (obsolete) A group.

Synonyms

• (The Earth): Earth, world, Terra, Sol III

Derived terms

• globe-trotter
• show globe
• snowglobe
• hemoglobin

Related terms

• global
• globular

Translations

Verb

globe (third-person singular simple present globes, present participle globing, simple past and past participle globed)

1. (intransitive) To become spherical.
2. (transitive) To make spherical.

Anagrams

• Belgo-, Bogle, Gobel, Goble, bogle

Danish

Etymology

From French globe, from Latin globus (“sphere, globe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?b?/, [???lo?b??]

Noun

globe c (singular definite globen, plural indefinite glober)

1. globe

Inflection

Synonyms

• globus c

Derived terms

• globetrotter c

French

Etymology

From Middle French globe, borrowed from Latin globus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?b/

Noun

globe m (plural globes)

1. globe

Derived terms

• englober
• globe terrestre
• globe-trotter

Related terms

• global

Further reading

• “globe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

globe

1. vocative singular of globus

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin globus.

Noun

globe m (plural globes)

1. roll (of paper, etc.)
2. globe (sphere showing a representation of the Earth)

Descendants

• ? English: globe
• French: globe

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (globe)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (globe, supplement)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l??m/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.

Noun

glome (plural glomes)

1. (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
2. (botany) A globular head of flowers.
3. (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

Etymology 2

Verb

glome (third-person singular simple present glomes, present participle gloming, simple past and past participle glomed)

1. (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
   • a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Praise of Mean and Constant Estate

     Not with loathsome muck as a den unclean,
     Nor palace like, whereat disdain may glome

Noun

glome

1. (obsolete) gloom

Anagrams

• Gomel, golem