Verb 'glom' - different meanings
Hello.
Is the sentence below correct? What does 'glom' mean?
After the bath is installed we need to glom the tiles to the wall.
I did research on this and the results are surprising... Let's have a look at three different dictionaries:
1) https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/glom?q=glom
- to steal
2) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/glom-onto-sth-sb?q=glom
- to become very interested
- to get or take something that you want
3) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glom#Verb
- to steal
- to stare
- to attach (I guess this is the one intended in my sentence above)
Does anyone know how this is possible that the meanings differ so much from dictionary to dictionary (only 'steal' is partially common)?
What is the most common usage of this strange word in everyday English?
Top answer
Reegis Is the sentence below correct? I would not use "glom" that way. A thing "gloms on to" another thing.
- Reegis Is the sentence below correct?
- I would not use "glom" that way.
- A thing "gloms on to" another thing.
- You don't glom a thing to another thing.
- I call the transitive use a mistake, and so does the OED .
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ReegisIs the sentence below correct?
I would not use "glom" that way. A thing "gloms on to" another thing. You don't glom a thing to another thing. I call the transitive use a mistake, and so does the OED.
ReegisWhat does 'glom' mean?
The only definition I was aware of before now is the intransitive one I em
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