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Definition: Lobe |
LobeNoun1. (anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part; "ear lobe". 2. The enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern. 3. A rounded projection that is part of a larger structure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lobe" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Lobe \Lobe\, noun. [French expression lobe, Greek]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | An element of a beam of focused radio energy. Lobes define surfaces of equal power density at varying distances and directions from the radiating antenna.Their configuration is governed by two factors: (a) the geometrical properties of the antenna reflector and feed system; and (b) the mutual interference between the direct and reflected rays for an antenna situated above a reflecting surface. In addition to the major lobes of an antenna system, there exist side lobes (or minor lobes) that result from the unvoidable finite size of the reflector. They exist at appreciable angles from the axis of the beam, and, while objectionable, they normally contain much less energy than that in the major lobe. See radiation pattern. (references) |
Computing | The cable between a token ring station and the trunk coupling unit to which it is connected. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The small diameter flexible coaxial cable of the broadband medium that connects to a medium access unit(MAU); also:the cable that connects a data station to a trunk coupling unit(TCU). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | Where are as many lobes to the cam as there are cylinders to the engine. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A portion of an organ such as the liver, lung, breast, or brain. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | The rotor -- (A, B, and C) are sealed tightly against the side of the oval chamber. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Profiled projection from straight or circular baseline. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Post & Telecom | That portion of the radiation pattern of an aerial which is contained within a region bounded by directions of minimum radiation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | A recognisable but not separated division, especially when rounded. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In telecommunication, the term lobe has the following meanings:1. An identifiable segment of an antenna radiation pattern.
Note: A lobe is characterized by a localized maximum bounded by identifiable nulls.
2. A pair of channels between a data station and a lobe attaching unit, one channel for sending and one for receiving, as seen from the point of view of the attached data station.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lobe."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Part | Debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part; sarmentum. |
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Screenplays | We still think the temporal lobe. (The Exorcist; writing credit: William Peter Blatty) | |
Lyrics | It's a short curcuit in the frontal lobe (Heterosexual Man; performing artist: Odds) | |
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 | (5) color slides of a single image of a human brain using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. Shows a bright blue color where brain cancer metastasizes in the occipital lobe. See artwork: GA-17 Horizons of Cancer Research. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Cross section of a human lung. The white area in the upper lobe is cancer, the black areas indicate the patient was a smoker. See artwork: SS-10. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | The spilt of a tributary channel shows the beginning of a delta lobe. The restoration work is intended to create a delta pattern. This image illustrates the success of the project as demonstrated by the formation of the delta lobe. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | In the background of the boat wake is a delta lobe created by the Big Island restoration project. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | An aerial close-up view of the created wetlands with a prominent lobe in the foreground. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ||
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma stepped to her, put the cork in back of the ear lobe and pushed the needle through the ear, into the cork |
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Health | There are many subtypes of frontal lobe seizures. (references) | |
Otherwise, it resembles temporal or frontal lobe epilepsy. (references) | ||
The symptoms depend on where in the frontal lobe the seizures occur. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cameroon | There was a media report that in September 1999 traditional authorities in Lobe, in Ndian Division of the Southwest Province, banished from the locality six persons, including one blind man, accused of having killed a woman by practicing witchcraft. (references) |
Human Rights | Cameroon | On April 11, the traditional rulers of Ekondo-Titi, Southwest Province, acting under the authority of the Balondo Development Association (BACUDA), ordered the expulsion of Iyassa Anou, Joseph Regeant, Johnson Mambo Naseri, Mathew Ajong Awor, Christian Buma, Francisca Nyando, and James Okenye, for allegedly bewitching to death a resident of the town of Lobe; however, the order to expel the seven was not implemented by year's end. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Lobe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.47% of the time. "Lobe" is used about 158 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.47% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.27% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.63% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.63% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 158 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lobe" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lobe | Last name | 300 | 23,639 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "lobe": cam lobe ♦ ear lobe ♦ Frontal Lobe ♦ hepatic lobe ♦ inferior parietal lobe ♦ lobe of ear ♦ Lobe of the ear ♦ lobe of the liver ♦ lobe of the lung ♦ major lobe ♦ Middle Lobe Syndrome ♦ minor lobe ♦ Occipital Lobe ♦ Optic Lobe ♦ parietal lobe ♦ piriform lobe ♦ prefrontal lobe ♦ Procephalic lobe ♦ pyriform lobe ♦ seed lobe ♦ side lobe ♦ side lobe suppression ♦ Temporal Lobe ♦ temporal lobe epilepsy ♦ transverse sulcus of the occipital lobe. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lobe": lobe-ended, lobe-finned, lobe-finned fish, Lobe-footed, lobe-like. | |
Ending with "lobe": ear-lobe, roche-lobe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "lobe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lob (lobby), vrigull (Spike), bulë e veshit (earpiece). (various references) | |
Arabic | فلقة (segment), فص (segment, stone), شحمة الأذن (ear-lap, earlobe). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | заоблен издатък, лоб (sinciput), изпъкналост (bulge, burr, camber, convexity, jut, knap, knob, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, swelling, umbo), дял (allocation, allotment, concern, contingent, deal, dos, interest, parcel, part, partition, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, sector, segment, share, slice, snack, value, whack), долната месеста част на ухото. (various references) | |
Chinese | 耳垂. (various references) | |
Czech | lalok (dewlap, lap), boltec. (various references) | |
Danish | lobus, lobe, lap (rag, scrap), sløjfe (endless loop). (various references) | |
Dutch | lobus. (various references) | |
Esperanto | orela lobo (earlobe, lobe of the ear). (various references) | |
Farsi | نرمه(مثل نرمه گوش), لخته (Clod), گوشه (Angle, Corner, Jest, Nook, Quip, Recess), اویز (Earring), بخشی ازعضله یامغز. (various references) | |
Finnish | lohko (section, sector). (various references) | |
French | lobe. (various references) | |
German | lappen (bill, cloth, clout, clouts, flannel, fold of skin, lobes, rag, rags, scrap), lobus. (various references) | |
Greek | προεξοχή κνώδακα (cam lobe), λωβός, λοβόσ αυτιού, λοβόσ (auricle, lug, tab), λοβός εκκέντρου (cam lobe), λοβός (hull, husk, lifter, pod, thimble, wiper), ακραίο καλώδιο (drop cable). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ת וך "אזן (earlap), או " (segment), ב"ל "אזן (earlap). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lebernyeg (dewlap, jowl, lap), fülcimpa (earlobe, earlobes). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cuping (earlobe). (various references) | |
Italian | lobo (clout, earlobe, rag, rags), lobulo (lobule). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肺葉 (lobe of the lung, pulmonary lobe), 肝葉 (lobe of the liver), 右葉 (right lobe), 前 葉 (frontal lobe), サイザル麻 (cider, citation, cytokinin, hand brake, side, side business, side job, side light, side lobe, side pocket, side table, side vents, side walk, side work, sidearm throw, sideboards, sidecar, sideline, side-out, sidestroke, sideview mirror, sightseeing, sisal hemp, site, size, supplementary reader in a foreign language classroom), 側 葉 (temporal lobe). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぜ"とうよう (frontal lobe), そくとうよう (temporal lobe), うよう (right lobe), か"よう (common, crucial, cultivation, customary, essential, forbearance, fostering, generosity, government business, governmental porcelain furnace, importance, lobe of the liver, official use, tolerance, training, vital), サイドローブ (side lobe), はいよう (germlayers, lobe of the lung, pulmonary lobe, wearing). (various references) | |
Korean | 로브. (various references) | |
Manx | babban (babe, baby, doll, tassel), bab (babe, earlobe). (various references) | |
Norwegian | lapp, flik. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lobo (wolf), lóbulo (lobule, lug). (various references) | |
Romanian | lob (lap), petalã (leaf, petal), camã (cam, cog, jaw, nose, tappet). (various references) | |
Russian | мочка уха (lobe of the ear), мочка (earlap, earlobe), доля мозга, доля (allotment, content, cup, dole, fraction, moiety, portion, quanta, quota, quotum, share, share of). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ušna školjka (auricle, earlobe). (various references) | |
Spanish | lóbulo (cusp). (various references) | |
Swedish | lob (beam, electromagnetic beam, lobes, ray). (various references) | |
Thai | ติ่งหู. (various references) | |
Turkish | lop (plop), meme (booby, breast, dug, mamilla, mamma, mammilla, mammo-, nipple, nose, pap, spray nozzle, teat, udder). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | частка (allotment, ante, contingent, crumb, deal, detail, divvy, dose, draught, fraction, particle, portion, quantity, quota, quotient, shred, slice), мочка вуха (lap). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vấu (claw). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | lobos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lobus, pinna, pinnae, pinnam, pinnarum, pinnas, pinnis. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | lobus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lobe": lobectomies, lobectomy, lobed, lobefin, lobefins, lobelia, lobelias, lobeline, lobelines, lobes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lobe": conglobe, earlobe, englobe, globe. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lobe": bilobed, buffaloberries, buffaloberry, conglobed, conglobes, earlobes, englobed, englobes, globed, globefish, globefishes, globeflower, globeflowers, globes, multilobed, trilobed, unilobed, unlobed. (additional references) | |
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"Lobe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aloba, Elombe, Labbe, labe, Labem, Laben, labeo, labet, labex, Labi, laube, lbo, Leeb, lhb, liba, libe, libea, libet, libo, lidba, liebe, llbo, lnb, loabe, Loba, lobal, Loban, Lobao, lobb, Lobban, Lobel, lobet, lobev, lobi, lobie, loble, loby, loe, loeb, Loebl, lofe, Lohe, Loibl, lole, Lomba, Lombe, Lonbay, loob, Looby, loqe, loub, Loubet, loxe, Loye, luba, lubb, lubei, lubet, lubey, lubh, Lubie, Lubke, lubr, Olaba, olb, Olbil, oleb, plobe, Ploben, vobe, wobe, yobe, zlabek, zobe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lobe" (pronounced lō"b) |
| 3 | l ō" b | globe. |
| 2 | -ō" b | probe, robe, strobe. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bole. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-o" | |
-1 letter: bel, lob, obe, ole. | |
-2 letters: be, bo, el, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-o" | |
+1 letter: below, bloke, bogle, boles, botel, boule, bowel, coble, elbow, globe, lobed, lobes, noble, obeli, obole, roble. | |
+2 letters: albedo, beclog, befool, befoul, behold, behowl, bellow, belong, belows, benzol, blokes, blonde, blooey, blooie, blouse, blowed, blower, boatel, bobble, boggle, bogles, boiled, boiler, bolder, bolero, bolete, boleti, bolide, bolled, bolted, bolter, boodle, bordel, boreal, botels, bottle, boucle, boules, boulle, bowels, bowled, bowleg, bowler, cobble, cobles, corbel, doable, double, elbows, emboli, emboly, foible, globed, globes, gobble, goblet, hobble, lobate, lobbed, lobber, lobule, mobile, mobled, nobble, nobler, nobles, obelia, obelus, oblate, oblige, oboles, pueblo, reboil, robles, rouble, wobble. | |
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