Wold vs Global - What's the difference?
wold | global |
An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
(obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland
* Byron
* Tennyson
Spherical, ball-shaped.
(not comparable) Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
Concerning all parts of the world.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (not comparable, computing) Of a variable, accessible by all parts of a program.
As nouns the difference between wold and global
is that wold is an unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor while global is (computing) a globally scoped identifier.As an adjective global is
spherical, ball-shaped.wold
English
Noun
(en noun)- And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied.
- The wind that beats the mountain, blows / More softly round the open wold .
Usage notes
* Used in many English place-names, always hilly tracts of land. * Wald'' (German) is a cognate, but a false friend because it retains the original meaning of ''forest .Derived terms
* Cotswolds * (Lincolnshire Wolds) * wolder * (Yorkshire Wolds)References
* OED 2nd edition 1989 ----global
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}