glōbˈal adjective

1. Spherical
2. Worldwide
3. Affecting, or taking into consideration, the whole world or all peoples
4. (of products or companies) having a name that is recognized throughout the world (marketing)
5. Comprehensive
6. Involving a whole file of data (computing)

glōˈbalism noun

1. The opinion or position that puts worldwide, international concerns above national or local
2. Globalization

glōˈbalist noun

Someone who is sensitive to global issues and seeks to promote this in others

glōbalizāˈtion or glōbalisāˈtion noun

glōˈbalize or glōˈbalise transitive verb

To make global

glōbˈally adverb

glōbˈate or glōbatˈed adjective

Globe-shaped

glōbed adjective

1. Globe-shaped
2. Having a globe

glōbˈy adjective (Milton, etc)

Round

global exchange or global search and replace noun (computing)

A facility enabling a user to search for and replace every occurrence of a fixed pattern in a file (also called search and replace)

Global Positioning System noun

In navigation, a system for providing, worldwide, velocity information and an extremely accurate three-dimensional position (abbrev GPS)

global search noun (computing)

A word-processing feature which finds every occurrence of a pre-determined character, word or phrase in a file

global search and replace see global exchange above.

global variable noun (computing)

A variable which applies for the whole of a program, including any subroutine

global village noun

The world, in reference to its apparent smallness due to improved communications, and the way in which changes in one area are likely to affect the rest of the world

global warming noun

The slow increase in the earth's surface air temperature caused by the greenhouse effect (qv under green¹)

globe artichoke see artichoke

globe fish noun

Any fish of the families Diodontidae and Tetrodontidae, capable of blowing itself up into a globe

globeˈflower noun

Any ranunculaceous plant of the genus Trollius with a globe of large showy sepals enclosing small inconspicuous petals

globe thistle see Echinops under echinus

globeˈ-trot intransitive verb (back-formation).

globeˈtrotter noun

A person who travels around the world, esp as a tourist

globeˈtrotting noun