different between glom vs glob

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?m/

Etymology 1

From Scottish English glaum (“to grab or snatch at”).

Verb

glom (third-person singular simple present gloms, present participle glomming, simple past and past participle glommed)

1. (transitive, informal) To steal, to grab.
2. (intransitive) To stare.
3. (intransitive, informal) To attach.
   • 2000, Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth, page 17,

     “The oil pan cracked, the engine seized, and the internal parts glommed together.”

   • 2015, Janet Rae-Dupree, Pat DuPree, Anatomy and Physiology Workbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition, page 217,

     In short, blood comes through the artery (arteriole) and material gloms onto the nephron before twisting through the near (proximal) tubes, looping the loop, twisting through the distant (distal) tubes, and collecting itself at the other end.

Derived terms

• glom on
• glom onto
• glommer

Translations

References

• glom, entry in TheFreeDictionary.com.

Etymology 2

Noun

glom (plural gloms)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for glomerulus.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

glom

1. singular past indicative of glimmen

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gl?m, from Proto-Germanic *gl?maz. Cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent cuticle or membrane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?m/

Noun

gl?m ?

1. gloom; twilight; darkness

Usage notes

• The exact gender of gl?m is uncertain. It is usually assumed to be a strong masculine noun.

Descendants

• Middle English: *glom
  • English: gloom
  • Scots: glom, gloam

English

Etymology

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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, blob, 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?)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?b/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?b/

Noun

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. (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
3. (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

See also

• Glob (programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

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

1. To stick in globs or lumps.
2. (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

References

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “glob”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Blog, GLBO, LGBO, blog

Polish

Etymology

From Latin globus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?p/

Noun

glob m inan

1. planet, globe

Declension

Further reading

• glob in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• glob in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French globe, from Latin globus.

Noun

glob n (plural globuri)

1. globe (all senses)

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

glob c

1. a globe

Declension

Related terms

• global
• jordglob
• Globen = Stockholm Globe Arena