| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Cob.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb cob.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cob) | 1. To strike.[Websters]. 2. To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.[Websters]. 3. To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: cobbing, cobbed, cobs, cobber, cobbers, cobbingly and cobbedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being eared.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being tufted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being fragmented. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being clotted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being projected. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being battered.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "COBBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Specialty Definition: cob
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] The top or head; a covetous wretch; a foreign coin.. | 2: [Noun] In America, the receptacle of the maiz, or American corn; a shoot in form of a pin or spike, on which grows the corn in rows. This receptacle, with the corn, is called the ear.. | 3: [Noun] A sea-fowl, the sea-cob.. | 4: [Noun] A ball or pellet for feeding fowls.. | 5: [Noun] In some parts of England, a spider. Old Dutch, kop or koppe, a spider, retained in koppespin, spinnekop, a spider.. | 6: [Noun] A horse not castrated; a strong poney.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Aerospace | Communications Office Building. (references) | ||
| Building & Civil Engineering | Walling of damp earth sometimes mixed with cement rammed without reinforcement into formwork. Some mixtures can be laid without formwork. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Environment | Command operating budget. (references) | ||
| Library Science | Central Obrera Boliviana. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: Cob (A). Between a pony and a horse in size, from thirteen to nearly fifteen hands high. The word means big, stout. The original meaning is a tuft or head, hence eminent, large, powerful. The "cob of the county" is the great boss thereof. A rich cob is a plutocrat Hence also a male, as a cob-swan. 2: Riding horses run between fifteen and sixteen hands in height, and carriage horses, between sixteen and seventeen hands. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Military | 1: Collocated operating base. (references) | 2: Committee of Combined Boards. (references) | |
| Mining | A. Corn. To break ore with hammers so as to sort out the valuable portion.b. Derb. A small solid pillar of coal left as a support for the roof. (references) | ||
| Oceanography | Close of Business (End of Workday). (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | 1: COB, or COBBING. A punishment used by the seamen for petty offences, or irregularities, among themselves: it consists in bastonadoing the offender on the posteriors with a cobbing stick, or pipe staff; the number usually inflicted is a dozen. At the first 2: COB. A Spanish dollar. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Technology | 1: Chief Of the Boat. (references) | 2: Chip On Board. (references) | 3: Close of Business. (references) | 4: Co-located Operating Base. (references) | 5: Coordination Of Benefits. (references) |
| Trade | Close of business. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Initialism] Chairman of the Board. (references) | 2: [Initialism] Chip on Board. (references) | 3: [Initialism] Close of Business, usually referring to a deadline, for an office in another time zone. NY office tells LA office to have report e-mailed by COB. (references) | 4: [Initialism] Coordination of Benefits. (references) | 5: [Noun] a horse having a stout body and short legs. (references) | 6: [Noun] A male swan. (references) | 7: [Noun] a round loaf of bread; a small (4" diameter), round piece of crusty bread (in the English Midlands). (references) | 8: [Noun] mud used as a building material, placed then dried. Also called rammed earth or pisé. (references) | 9: [Noun] short for cobble or cobblestone. (references) | 10: [Noun] short for cobnut. (references) | 11: [Noun] The portion of a corn plant around which the kernels grow. (references) | 12: [Verb] (possibly colloquial, N UK) to throw, chuck, lob. (references) | 13: [Verb] To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent. (references) | 14: [Verb] To cut, trim or break into blocks of a convenient size. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Abbreviations & Acronyms: cob
| 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 | |
| COB | English | Company of Biologists | N/A | |
| COB | Finnish | "chip on board-tekniikka | N/A | |
| COB | French | Montage direct sur carte | N/A | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
