"glom" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɡlɒm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-glom.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gloms [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒm Head templates: {{en-noun}} glom (plural gloms)
  1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for glomerulus. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial Alternative form of: glomerulus Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-glom-en-noun-kUjwW-Pc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 1 27 38 2 Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 15 28 1 20 27 5 3 0 Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /ɡlɒm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-glom.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gloms [present, singular, third-person], glomming [participle, present], glommed [participle, past], glommed [past]
Rhymes: -ɒm Etymology: From Scottish English glom, glaum (“to grab or snatch at”), a variant of clam, claum (“to clutch, seize, grasp, reach for”), from Middle English *clammen, from Old English clæmman (“to pinch, press, inclose”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan. Related to clamp. Etymology templates: {{m|en|glom}} glom, {{m|en|glaum|t=to grab or snatch at}} glaum (“to grab or snatch at”), {{m|en|clam}} clam, {{m|en|claum|t=to clutch, seize, grasp, reach for}} claum (“to clutch, seize, grasp, reach for”), {{inh|en|enm|*clammen}} Middle English *clammen, {{inh|en|ang|clæmman|t=to pinch, press, inclose}} Old English clæmman (“to pinch, press, inclose”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*klammjan}} Proto-West Germanic *klammjan, {{m|en|clamp}} clamp Head templates: {{en-verb}} glom (third-person singular simple present gloms, present participle glomming, simple past and past participle glommed)
  1. (transitive, informal) To take. Tags: informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-glom-en-verb-TgiTeS-s
  2. (intransitive, informal) To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto. Tags: informal, intransitive Translations (to steal, to grab): крада (krada) (Bulgarian), грабвам (grabvam) (Bulgarian), sgraffignare (Italian), grattare (Italian), кра́сть (krástʹ) [imperfective, neuter] (Russian), хвата́ть (xvatátʹ) [imperfective, neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-glom-en-verb-buAn8P5S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 1 27 38 2 Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 15 28 1 20 27 5 3 0 Disambiguation of 'to steal, to grab': 19 65 16
  3. (intransitive, informal) To clump up, to seize together into a lump or conglomeration. Tags: informal, intransitive
    Sense id: en-glom-en-verb-6i6dEyEW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 1 27 38 2 Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 15 28 1 20 27 5 3 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: glom on, glom onto, glommer
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ɡlɒm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-glom.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gloms [present, singular, third-person], glomming [participle, present], glommed [participle, past], glommed [past]
Rhymes: -ɒm Etymology: Variant of glaum, gloom (“to frown, scowl, stare at”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|glaum}} glaum, {{m|en|gloom|t=to frown, scowl, stare at}} gloom (“to frown, scowl, stare at”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} glom (third-person singular simple present gloms, present participle glomming, simple past and past participle glommed)
  1. (intransitive) Alternative form of glaum (“look, stare”). Tags: alt-of, alternative, intransitive Alternative form of: glaum (extra: look, stare)
    Sense id: en-glom-en-verb-EvUCSeie
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Currently scripting RKO B westerns, under yet another monicker, the work fronted by a politically acceptable hack writer who glommed a 35 percent cut.",
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          "text": "known what she was thinking, for his mind had glommed at the same time onto the same possibility: that Margo's grumpy but otherwise seemingly harmless, neighbor, whom they had interviewed before, could, after all, be the kidnapper.",
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          "ref": "2014 May 28, Sarah Terez Rosenblum, “After 15 Years Of Lesbianism, I'm Dating Men And I Have No Idea What I'm Doing”, in XOJane, archived from the original on 2014-05-31",
          "text": "Bisexuals, she said, glommed onto lesbians because they feared their fathers, or had been devastated by ex-boyfriends.",
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          "ref": "2015, Janet Rae-Dupree, Pat DuPree, Anatomy and Physiology Workbook For Dummies, 2nd edition, page 217",
          "text": "In short, blood comes through the artery (arteriole) and material gloms onto the nephron before twisting through the near (proximal) tubes, looping the loop, twisting through the distant (distal) tubes, and collecting itself at the other end.",
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          "ref": "2009 August 11, Nancy Grace, The Eleventh Victim, Hachette Books",
          "text": "Her frosty red lipstick kept glomming at the corners of her mouth, giving her an unnatural clown frown. Hailey later heard they, too, had divorced. Standing there, facing Leonard's steely gaze and imposing figure, Hailey had no problem[…]",
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          "ref": "2013 November 11, Susan Kiernan-Lewis, The Irish End Games, Books 1-3, Susan Kiernan-Lewis",
          "text": "The following day when Fiona had gone to pour the poteen into a smaller bottle so that she could use the bigger one to store cooking oil, nearly a half a dozen undissolved aspirin tablets were glommed at the bottom of the bottle.",
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          "text": "Its black, withered-up, pinholes for eyes glommed at little Isabel. And with great anticipation it began to speak. “Why Gelp, that's a fine fat little one you have there. You always find the good ones. Are you on your way to market[…]\"",
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          "text": "I apologized for disturbing her and said I would deeply appreciate it if she would let me take a picture of a painting […] It would have been a pleasure, and also instructive, to do a little glomming at the rugs and furniture and other miscellaneous objects, especially the dozen or more pictures on the walls, but that would have to wait.",
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          "text": "[…] at last, he would be using his Leica again, […] to shamelessly strip them to their underclothes in an attempt to eternise them in flagranti, after which, in his darkroom, he would seen what intimate details would emerge from the developing pans, captured by his camera... and perhaps he would play with those intimate details under the enlarger... (The private eye had his own private collection of intimate details, worked up by the enlarger. Should anyone take those large format obscenities in hand, they'd never guess that he was glomming at a stable of prominent highly placed promiscuous mares.)",
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          "text": "Mac glommed a handful of Bott's hair and ear and twisted it, “Ya be listenin' ta me now that I 'ave yer attention. And ifin ya don't, I'll be obliged ta hack off yer pretty little ear wif me blade. Would ya like that, Mr. Mouth,[…]",
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          "ref": "2014 August 14, Robert Leslie Bellem, Coffin for a Coward, eStar Books",
          "text": "As soon as I was alone I glommed a quick gander into the bedroom, saw the Bonham punk was resting quietly under the covers. I withdrew, made myself cozy in an easy chair, began burning gaspers and reading magazines.",
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          "text": "Currently scripting RKO B westerns, under yet another monicker, the work fronted by a politically acceptable hack writer who glommed a 35 percent cut.",
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        "To take."
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        "(transitive, informal) To take."
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          "text": "Winslow glommed at once onto the benefits of such an arrangement. “So I would set the terms, conditions, and whatever fee I chose to pay myself?” “You catch on quick!” said the cuddly clerk impishly.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2010 August 1, Linda O. Johnston, Not a Moment Too Soon, Silhouette, page 98",
          "text": "known what she was thinking, for his mind had glommed at the same time onto the same possibility: that Margo's grumpy but otherwise seemingly harmless, neighbor, whom they had interviewed before, could, after all, be the kidnapper.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014 May 28, Sarah Terez Rosenblum, “After 15 Years Of Lesbianism, I'm Dating Men And I Have No Idea What I'm Doing”, in XOJane, archived from the original on 2014-05-31",
          "text": "Bisexuals, she said, glommed onto lesbians because they feared their fathers, or had been devastated by ex-boyfriends.",
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          "ref": "2015, Janet Rae-Dupree, Pat DuPree, Anatomy and Physiology Workbook For Dummies, 2nd edition, page 217",
          "text": "In short, blood comes through the artery (arteriole) and material gloms onto the nephron before twisting through the near (proximal) tubes, looping the loop, twisting through the distant (distal) tubes, and collecting itself at the other end.",
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        "(intransitive, informal) To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto."
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          "ref": "2000, Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth, page 17",
          "text": "The oil pan cracked, the engine seized, and the internal parts glommed together.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 August 11, Nancy Grace, The Eleventh Victim, Hachette Books",
          "text": "Her frosty red lipstick kept glomming at the corners of her mouth, giving her an unnatural clown frown. Hailey later heard they, too, had divorced. Standing there, facing Leonard's steely gaze and imposing figure, Hailey had no problem[…]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 November 11, Susan Kiernan-Lewis, The Irish End Games, Books 1-3, Susan Kiernan-Lewis",
          "text": "The following day when Fiona had gone to pour the poteen into a smaller bottle so that she could use the bigger one to store cooking oil, nearly a half a dozen undissolved aspirin tablets were glommed at the bottom of the bottle.",
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        "(intransitive, informal) To clump up, to seize together into a lump or conglomeration."
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      "word": "sgraffignare"
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      "sense": "to steal, to grab",
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          "ref": "2015 April 14, A.K. Ashic, Book One of Weird and Wacky Tales & Other Such Nonsense, Lulu Press, Inc",
          "text": "Its black, withered-up, pinholes for eyes glommed at little Isabel. And with great anticipation it began to speak. “Why Gelp, that's a fine fat little one you have there. You always find the good ones. Are you on your way to market[…]\"",
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          "ref": "1994 September 1, Rex Stout, Three Witnesses, Crimeline, page 190",
          "text": "I apologized for disturbing her and said I would deeply appreciate it if she would let me take a picture of a painting […] It would have been a pleasure, and also instructive, to do a little glomming at the rugs and furniture and other miscellaneous objects, especially the dozen or more pictures on the walls, but that would have to wait.",
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        {
          "ref": "2021 December 3, Jiří Kratochvil, The Vow: A Requiem for the Fifties, Glagoslav Publications",
          "text": "[…] at last, he would be using his Leica again, […] to shamelessly strip them to their underclothes in an attempt to eternise them in flagranti, after which, in his darkroom, he would seen what intimate details would emerge from the developing pans, captured by his camera... and perhaps he would play with those intimate details under the enlarger... (The private eye had his own private collection of intimate details, worked up by the enlarger. Should anyone take those large format obscenities in hand, they'd never guess that he was glomming at a stable of prominent highly placed promiscuous mares.)",
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