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Definition: Globule |
GlobuleNoun1. A small globe or ball. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "globule" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The mosaic consists of globules of light sensitive material on a mica sheet having a conducting film on its back surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rotundity | Sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution). |
Smallness | Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Globule |
| English words defined with "globule": bubble ♦ Fulguration ♦ Globulet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "globule": BEAD MAKER ♦ glass-bead maker. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "globule": Globulite. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Globule" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (corpuscle, globule). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Oxygen toxicity, pulmonary embolism (closure of the pulmonary artery or one of its branches by a blood clot or a fat globule), cardiovascular problems, barotrauma (injury to the lung tissue from excessive ventilatory pressure), pneumothorax (air in the pleural space), and gastrointestinal bleeding are some of the complications of treatment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Globule" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Globule" is used about 16 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) | 93.75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "globule": globule of fat ♦ molten globule ♦ polar globule. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
globule rouge | 14 |
blanc globule | 5 |
globule | 4 |
globule molten | 4 |
blanche globule | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "globule"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sferë (area, ball, domain, field, front, globe, level, orb, range, realm, region, scope, sphere, world), pikë (apoplexy, article, bead, blob, clause, count, Dot, drop, full stop, installation, leak, match point, period, pip, pitch, point, score, spot, touch). (various references) | |
Arabic | كرية دم, الكرية كرة صغيرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хапче (pellet, pill, pilule), топчица (knobble, pellet, roll). (various references) | |
Chinese | 小球. (various references) | |
Czech | kulièka (bead, bulb, marble), kapièka (droplet), kapénka. (various references) | |
Danish | globulus. (various references) | |
Dutch | globulus. (various references) | |
Farsi | گلبول (Corpuscle, Glob), گویچه خون , جسم کوچک کروی . (various references) | |
French | globule. (various references) | |
German | Kügelchen (globules, Pearl, pellet, pellets). (various references) | |
Greek | αιμοσφαίριο (blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כ"ורית "ם (corpuscle), כ"ורית (ball, cell, pellet, pilule, spherule), בוע" (bleb, blister, bubble, vesicle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | golyócska (pellet), gömböcske (pat, spherule), szemcse (button, corn, grain, granule, particle, pellet, speck), pirula (drop, pastille, pellet, pill, pilule, tablet), cseppecske (droplet), csepp (diminutive, drip, drop, gout, speck, spot, sup, tear). (various references) | |
Italian | globulo (corpuscle, corpuscule). (various references) | |
Manx | runtag (round object, sphere), cruinneen (bead, blob, blob of liquid). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obuleglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glóbulo (corpuscle, marble). (various references) | |
Romanian | globulã, pilulã (cough lozenge, lozenge, pad, pellet, pill, pilule). (various references) | |
Russian | шарик (ball, pellet, spherule, spitball, wad). (various references) | |
Scottish | gucag (a bubble, bell, bubble, bud). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | loptica (bulb, pellet, shuttlecock, spherule), kap (drop, stroke). (various references) | |
Spanish | glóbulo (blood cell, corpuscle, corpuscule). (various references) | |
Swedish | litet klot, droppe (blob, dribble, drip, drop, droplet, nip, spot). (various references) | |
Thai | สิ่งที่กลมเล็ก. (various references) | |
Turkish | kürecik (corpuscle, spherule). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кулька (bead, bolus, bowl, pellet), крапля (bead, blob, dribble, drop, gout, minim, smidgen, tear), пілюля (ball, pill). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | viên nhỏ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | globulus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "globule": globules. (additional references) | |
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"Globule" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Globalpex, globle, globol, glosule, Glubu, goule. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-l-l-o-u" | |
-1 letter: boulle, lobule. | |
-2 letters: bogle, boule, bugle, bulge, globe. | |
-3 letters: bell, blue, bole, boll, bull, glob, glue, gull, lobe, loge, lube, luge, ogle. | |
-4 letters: beg, bel, bog, bug, ego, ell, gel, gob, gul, leg, leu, lob, log, lug, obe, ole. | |
-5 letters: be, bo, el, go, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-l-l-o-u" | |
+1 letter: globules. | |
+3 letters: bulldogged, bulldogger, coagulable, euglobulin, subcollege. | |
+4 letters: bulldoggers, euglobulins, subcolleges. | |
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