Glove

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A fitted covering for the hand with a separate sheath for each finger and the thumb.
  • n. A gauntlet.
  • n. Sports Any of various coverings for the hand designed to provide protection or improve the grip, as:
  • n. Sports An oversized leather glove used for catching baseballs, especially one with more finger sheaths than the catcher's or first baseman's mitt.
  • n. Sports A glove made of leather and fabric having padding on the back and extending over the wrist, used in hockey and lacrosse.
  • n. Sports A boxing glove.
  • n. Sports A close-fitting leather glove used to improve the grip, as in batting or in golf.
  • n. Baseball Fielding ability: a shortstop with a good glove.
  • v. To furnish with gloves.
  • v. To cover with or as if with a glove.
  • verb-intransitive. To don gloves, as before performing an operation on a patient.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but allowing independent movement of the fingers.
  • n. The ability to catch a hit ball.
  • n. A condom.
  • v. To catch the ball in a baseball mitt
  • v. To put on a glove.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.
  • n. A boxing glove.
  • v. To cover with, or as with, a glove.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A covering for the hand having a separate sheath for each finger, and thus distinguished from a mitten.
  • n. Specifically, a boxing-glove.
  • n. In hatmaking, a wooden scraper used in felting hats in the battery.
  • To cover with or as with a glove.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball
  • n. boxing equipment consisting of big and padded coverings for the fists of the fighters; worn for the sport of boxing
  • n. handwear: covers the hand and wrist
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    gloved    gloves    gloving   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    gloved    gloving   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gauntlet    muffler    muffle    mousquetaire    mitt    mitten   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dove    Love    above    belove    dove    gov    love    of    shove    thereof   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shirt    shoe    trouser    stocking    slipper    scarf    skirt    suit    blanket    cloth