Glomed vs Globed - What's the difference?
glomed | globed |
(glome)
(anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
(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.
(obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
(globe)
Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
The planet Earth.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
(dated, or, Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
* 1920 , Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific bulletin: volumes 9-10 (page 26)
A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
* Milton
To become spherical
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As verbs the difference between glomed and globed
is that glomed is (glome) while globed is (globe).glomed
English
Verb
(head)glome
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (lena) (glomus) a ball. Compare (globe).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Verb
(glom)- (Surrey)
globed
English
Verb
(head)globe
English
(wikipedia globe)Noun
(en noun)- the globe''' of the eye; the '''globe of a lamp
- (John Locke)
Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe . Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
- 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.
- Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.