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Lob vs Lobe - What's the difference?

lob | lobe |

As nouns the difference between lob and lobe

is that lob is (ball sports) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air while lobe is any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.

As a verb lob

is to throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.

lob

English

Etymology 1

Verb

  • To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.
    • The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
    The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
  • (colloquial) To throw.
  • (colloquial) To put, place
    • Lob it in the pot.
  • (sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Nabil Hassan , title=Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post. }}
  • (obsolete) To let fall heavily or lazily.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (ball sports ) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.
    • The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Nabil Hassan , title=Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left. }}
    Derived terms
    * lob wedge

    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a lump
  • * {{quote-book, year=1875, author=M.L. Kenny, title=The fortunes of Maurice Cronin, page=126 citation
    • , passage=And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I -- }}
  • (obsolete) a country bumpkin, clown
  • * {{quote-book, 1594, , section=Act II Scene I
    • , passage=Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon. }}
  • * {{quote-book, 1694,
    • , passage=THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) lubbe.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fish, the European pollock.

    • Etymology 4

    Verb

    (lobb)
  • (mining) To cob (chip off unwanted pieces of stone).
    • (Webster 1913)

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    lobe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
  • (anatomy) A division of the brain.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes' and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these ' lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * ear lobe * frontal lobe * occipital lobe * parietal lobe * temporal lobe * trilobite

    Related terms

    * lobotomy

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