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UK
/ɡlˈəʊbəl/
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[ US /ˈɡɫoʊbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫoʊbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
neither national nor continental but planetary
global war
of worldwide significance
global monetary policy
a world crisis -
having the shape of a sphere or ball
a spherical object
little globular houses like mud-wasp nests
nearly orbicular in shape
How To Use global In A Sentence
- That's as it should be, as the newspaper has a global audience but not global printing presses.
- Mass culture is supposedly a leveler and globalizer - by definition, we all share mass cultural references.
- AERONET is a global network of more than 100 sun photometers that measure the amount of sunlight absorbed by aerosols (fine particles in the air) at wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared.
- It shows how football has come to occupy a central place in the networks of global power. Times, Sunday Times
- It is the final guard against nationalistic states that sought the betterment of their people first and foremost and not that of some hypothetical global village or for the internationalistic elite. Pravda blames trotskyites for u.s. empire
- Only a very strong, perhaps only a globally dominant, power can sustain informal empire in the long run.
- A country which once conquered the commercial world now fails to make the most of the global market place.
- I believe it has its own atmosphere because it is built in what you call a caldera, but I may have picked that information up from like a Syfy TV movie about the Coming Global Superstorm, or invented it in my own mind. Television Without Pity
- The Global Communications Group links ecological and other political activists via the Net.
- Here, we take a whirlwind global tour of foods that can help keep us healthy. The Sun
