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/ləʊb/ · noun
Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. [from 19th c.].
A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.
He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors.
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
Use lobe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lobe means Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. [from 19th c.].
Common synonyms include lobe.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.
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