glove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: glŭv
ipa: /ɡlʌv/
rhymes: -ʌv
Forms: form: gloves
form: gloving
form: gloved
form: gloved
Etymology: From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof.
Senses: examples: text: He gloved the line drive for the third out.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
examples: text: Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
text: After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: To put a glove or gloves on.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To touch (a delivery) with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: baseball glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: batting glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: begloved
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: boxing glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: codglove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: cryoglove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: data glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: deglove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: driving glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: drop the gloves
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: evening glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: fingerless glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: fit like a glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: footglove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: fox-glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: gardening glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: given the glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glitten
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glovebag
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glove box
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glove compartment
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: gloved
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glove doll
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: gloveful
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: gloveless
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glovelike
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glovemaker
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glovemaking
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: gloveman
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glove money
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glove puppet
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glover
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: gloves are off
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glovesman
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glove sponge
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glove up
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glovewear
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glovework
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glovey
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: glovish
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: half glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: hand and glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: handglove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: hand-in-glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: hand in glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: iron fist in a velvet glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: kid-glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: kid glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: kid gloves
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: lay a glove on
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: love glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: medical glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: mermaid's glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: Mickey Mouse glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: monkey glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: mousquetaire glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: no glove no love
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: opera glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: oven glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: purple glove syndrome
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: riding glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: surgical glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: take up the glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: unglove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: vampire glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: velvet glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: white-glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: white-glove building
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: white-glove service
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: white-glove test
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: white glove test
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: work glove
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb glove
word: workglove
Related terms: cot
gauntlet
handshoe
mitt
mitten