| 释义 |
▪ I. glob slang.|glɒb|
[? Blend of blob n. and gob n.1]
A mass or lump of some liquid or semi-liquid substance.
1900H. Lawson Over Sliprails 44 The pup curled like a glob of mud on the sand in the moonlight. 1957J. Masters Far, Far the Mountain Peak 96 Very large, mysterious snowflakes, wet and solid, drifted like globs of ice cream into their eyes. 1962New Scientist 5 Apr. 807/2 Throughout the long coasting time, the fuel has been free of the pull of gravity. It is probably floating around the half-empty fuel tank in globs. 1965E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen vi. 138 The blower gathered a parison, a ‘glob’ of hot glass, from the pot by dipping the tip of a six-foot blowing iron (tube) into the mass.
▪ II. glob
obs. form of globe. |