Glove

Quick meaning: Glove is a noun meaning (clothing) An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

Meaning

(clothing) An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

More Meanings

1. A baseball mitt.
2. (baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.
3. (with definite article) A challenge from one to another.
4. (baseball, transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
5. (transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.
6. (cricket) 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.
7. (slang) A condom.

Example Sentences

I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.

He gloved the line drive for the third out.

The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.

to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it

Word Forms

• gloves
• gloving
• gloved

Synonyms for glove

Depending on context, synonyms include gauntlet, handshoe, gloves.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gauntlet, pocket, trimmed, shoebox, carton, hutch.

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