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Definition: Lob |
LobNoun1. An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc. 2. The act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc. Verb1. Propel in a high arc; "lob the tennis ball". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lob" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Lob A till. Hence lob-sneak, one who robs the till; and lob-sneaking, robbing tills. (See next article.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | LOB. A till in a tradesman's shop. To frisk a lob; to rob a till. See FLASH PANNEY. LOB. Going on the lob; going into a shop to get change for gold, and secreting some of the change. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LOB | English | London Outward Bound | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Lob |
| English words defined with "lob": Lobbed, Lobbing, Lobbish, Lobcock. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lob": alley oop ♦ Lazy Lobkin, LOBONIAN SOCIETY, LOB'S POUND. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lob": lubber. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lob" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (lobby, lobe), Czech (lob), French (lob), German (accolade, commendation, lob, praise, tribute), Romanian (lap, lobe), Serbo-Croatian (lob), Spanish (lob), Swedish (lobe), Turkish (lob). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lob des Anrufbeantworters (1989) | |
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| "Lob" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Lob" is used about 154 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) | 57.14% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 21.43% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.34% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.44% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.65% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 154 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lob" 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 |
| Lob | Last name | 170 | 46,551 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "lob": To lob a ball. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lob": Lob-h, Lob-lie-by-the-fire, lob-medallions. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lob | 47 | 005 lob | 2 |
lob wedge | 38 | callaway lob wedge | 2 |
dbms lob | 5 | law lob | 2 |
dbms lob.read oracle | 4 | live lob | 2 |
dbms lob.read | 4 | lob tennis | 2 |
cleveland lob wedge | 4 | baseball lob | 2 |
001 lob | 3 | lob review wedge | 2 |
lob ping wedge | 3 | lob search | 2 |
000 lob | 3 | lob oracle | 2 |
clothing lob | 3 | dbms lob oracle | 2 |
black lob wedge widow | 3 | hit lob wedge | 2 |
golf lob wedge | 3 | cobra king lob wedge | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "lob"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrapoj rëndë-rëndë, top i lartë, hedh topin, eci rëndë-rëndë. (various references) | |
Arabic | كرة كركيت, قذف كره, رفع الكرة, شخص بليد أخرق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ходя тежко (pound), тичам тежко, висока топка, земен червей (earthworm, lobworm), бавна топка, изпращам висока топка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 高吊球. (various references) | |
Czech | lob. (various references) | |
Farsi | چیزی راسنگین بزمین زدن , چاق وچله (Buxom, Plump, Squab), چاق (Chubby, Fat, Obese, Overweight, Pudgy, Replete, Tubby), کردن (Braid, Do, Fold, Gig, Grade, Ground, Hatch, Have, Hinder, Joint, List, Pass, Peer, Perform, Pickup, Poop, Ramble, Rest, Set, Settle, Stick, Tag, Thread, Tip), گوشت الو, غبغب , خم شدن (Bow, Buckle, Decline, Lean, Recline, Sag, Stoop, Wilt), ادم خپله وسنگین , باهستگی پرتاب گوشت یاپوست اویخته , باتنبلی وسنگینی حرکت کردن . (various references) | |
French | lober, lob, lancer en chandelle (loft), imbécile (loon), faire un lob, envoyer haut. (various references) | |
German | lobben, lob (accolade, commendation, praise, tribute), im lob spielen. (various references) | |
Greek | κτυπώ υψηλά σφαίραν τένισ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fajankó (boob, booby, bumpkin, cad, duffer, dummy, dunce, goof, goofy, goose, hawbuck, hick, juggins, loon, lout, lummox, lunkhead, numb-skull, numskull, oaf, pumpkin-head, simple sammy). (various references) | |
Italian | pallonetto (air bag). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ロ"ー活動 (lobbing, lobbying, lobbyist, lobster, loft, robot). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ロブ . (various references) | |
Manx | lobbal, lobb. (various references) | |
Norwegian | lobbe. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rústico (backwoods, boor, boorish, bumbling, bumpkin, chuff, churl, churlish, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, countrified, loutish, low-bred, lubber, mucker, peasant, rude, rural, rustic, rustical, uncouth, underbred, yokel), jogar uma bola alta, grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), deslocar-se (get around, travel), correr (accrue, bolt, career, course, fleet, fling, flow, flux, gallop, go, hotfoot, hurry, overrun, race, run, scoot, shoot, speed, travel, tumble), bola alta. (various references) | |
Romanian | merge greoi, arunca sus, arunca mingea sus. (various references) | |
Russian | свеча (candle, candlepower, suppository, tolly), тупица (blinker, blockhead, boeotian, bonehead, bone-head, cabbage-head, duffer, dullard, dunce, goof, goon, leather-head, lubber-head, nerd, numbskull, numskull, thick, thickhead), высоко подброшенный мяч, нескладеха, подбрасывать (jolt, toss up). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lobovati (loft), lob, ispaljivati, grumen (clod, clump, dollop, knob, lump, nub, nugget). (various references) | |
Spanish | lob, voleo alto, voleo (volley), volear por alto, volar en (blast, explode, fly at, lap, set off), tirar hasta (bang down, jerk, pot), globo (air balloon, ball, balloon, bowl, globe, orb), de voleo. (various references) | |
Swedish | lobba, lobb, kasta (bowl, cast, chuck, dart, dash, fling, flip, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, pelt, pitch, pitchfork, project, send, shoot, shy, throw, toss). (various references) | |
Thai | ชักช้างุ่มง่าม, คนที่งุ่มง่าม (clodhopper). (various references) | |
Turkish | lob, topu havaya vurmak, havaya vurulan top, hantalca koşmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рухатися незграбно (slummock), тупиця (boeotian, clot, dodo, duffer, dullard, dunce, goon, jerk, thick-head, wampus), великий нескладний шматок, нескладний (broken, cumbersome, fool-proof, off-key, onefold, open and shut, ordinary, primitive), незграбний (angular, artless, awkward, blundering, bouncing, bovine, clumsy, cubbish, cumbersome, fumbling, gangling, gauche, gawky, gnarled, graceless, ham-fisted, hulking, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, shamble, splay, splayfooted, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, wooden), лобас. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lob": lobar, lobate, lobated, lobately, lobation, lobations, lobbed, lobber, lobbers, lobbied, lobbies, lobbing, lobby, lobbyer, lobbyers, lobbygow, lobbygows, lobbying, lobbyism, lobbyisms, lobbyist, lobbyists, lobe, lobectomies, lobectomy, lobed, lobefin, lobefins, lobelia, lobelias, lobeline, lobelines, lobes, loblollies, loblolly, lobo, lobos, lobotomies, lobotomise, lobotomised, lobotomises, lobotomising, lobotomize, lobotomized, lobotomizes, lobotomizing, lobotomy, lobs, lobscouse, lobscouses, lobster. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lob": blob, glob, slob. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lob": agammaglobulinemia, agammaglobulinemias, agammaglobulinemic, allobar, allobars, ameloblast, ameloblasts, antiglobulin, antiglobulins, bilobate, bilobed, blobbed, blobbing, blobs, buffaloberries, buffaloberry, campylobacter, campylobacters, cellobiose, cellobioses, clobber, clobbered, clobbering, clobbers, colobi, coloboma, colobomata, colobus, colobuses, conglobate, conglobated, conglobates, conglobating, conglobation, conglobations, conglobe, conglobed, conglobes, conglobing, diploblastic, earlobe, earlobes, englobe, englobed, englobes, englobing, euglobulin, euglobulins, global, globalise, globalised. (additional references) | |
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"Lob" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alob, clobb, elob, kob, labh, larb, laub, lbo, Lby, ldo, leb, lebb, Lebp, lerb, lhb, libn, liby, llo, lnb, Loba, lobb, lobi, loby, loeb, Loebl, lof, Loh, loi, Loibl, lom, lomb, loob, Looby, loq, lor, lou, loub, lov, loz, lub, luba, lubb, lubh, lubr, Lunb, luq, lurb, luv, lvo, lyb, ol, olb, Olby, oleb, olob, oob. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lob" (pronounced lÄ"b) |
| 3 | l Ä" b | blob, glob, slob. |
| 2 | -Ä" b | Bob, cob, Cobb, gob, hob, job, knob, Miserables, mob, Rob, snob, sob, swab, throb. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-o" | |
-1 letter: bo, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-o" | |
+1 letter: blob, bloc, blot, blow, boil, bola, bold, bole, boll, bolo, bolt, bowl, glob, lobe, lobo, lobs, obol, slob. | |
+2 letters: aboil, below, bilbo, bloat, blobs, block, blocs, bloke, blond, blood, bloom, bloop, blots, blown, blows, blowy, bogle, boils, bolar, bolas, bolds, boles, bolls, bolos, bolts, bolus, boral, botel, boule, bowel, bowls, boyla, broil, cibol, clomb, coble, dobla, elbow, globe, globs, labor, limbo, lobar, lobby, lobed, lobes, lobos, looby, noble, nobly, obeli, obole, oboli, obols, roble, slobs. | |
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