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- verb Present participle of
glob .
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Examples
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Some experts at oil cleanup said the balling and globbing of the oil, clearly visible on underwater video as workers lowered the container dome onto the well, may be a result of the heavy application of chemical dispersants near the leak.
Officials enlist robots to help contain oil gushing in Gulf of Mexico 2010
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And she avoids expensive sunscreens because "you want to use a lot of it -- I believe in globbing it on every hour when I'm outdoors," Ms. Wells says.
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Carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. and which many scientists are blaming for the globbing warming, they've doubled since 1960.
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The addition of a globbing protein, even a weak one, to the haemocyte patch would inevitably make it stronger and more stable, offering a selective advantage Note 2.
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This Halloween night ... while you are either out trick-or-treating or globbing handfuls of candy into bags, I won't be participating in normal Halloween activities.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2000
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Already the mean little scud-clouds were globbing together, forming larger fragments, each with a single spike of Fracto's crown.
Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983
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He's just globbing up food: he's gotten so fat, it's really bad.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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He's just globbing up food: he's gotten so fat, it's really bad.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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He's just globbing up food: he's gotten so fat, it's really bad.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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To preserve efficiency and make the results more useful, we limit globbing to only queries of at least 2 characters.
KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] Nicolas17 2010
alexz commented on the word globbing
Linux term for when the command line shell uses /etc/glob to process wildcard inputs such as *? to perform an operation on multiple files or do something complicated.
March 22, 2016