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Definition: GLOVER |
GLOVERNoun1. One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves. |
Date "GLOVER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Glover is a town located in Orleans County, Vermont. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 966.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 100.0 km² (38.6 mi²). 98.1 km² (37.9 mi²) of it is land and 1.9 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.92% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 966 people, 384 households, and 269 families residing in the town. The population density is 9.8/km² (25.5/mi²). There are 677 housing units at an average density of 6.9/km² (17.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.38% White, 0.21% African American, 0.93% Native American, 0.21% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.31% from other races, and 1.97% from two or more races. 0.62% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 384 households out of which 29.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.9% are married couples living together, 8.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.9% are non-families. 23.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.40 and the average family size is 2.83. In the town the population is spread out with 22.0% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 23.2% from 25 to 44, 34.1% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 44 years. For every 100 females there are 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 95.6 males. The median income for a household in the town is $33,403, and the median income for a family is $38,309. Males have a median income of $25,977 versus $21,172 for females. The per capita income for the town is $15,112. 11.9% of the population and 10.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 15.2% are under the age of 18 and 14.9% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Glover, Vermont."
Crosswords: GLOVER |
| Specialty definitions using "GLOVER": Maid of Perth ♦ Rolls. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Perhaps they thought you were Danny Glover. (Bamboozled; writing credit: Spike Lee) | |
Lyrics | I'm lethal like Danny Glover (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Great Glover (1942) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Crewmembers Lisa Glover,Pat Quinanola, Matt Ofsthus, and Terry Gregg help tie up the RONALD H. BROWN in Male, capital of the Maldive Islands. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | [Robert P. Glover, M.D.] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Fabian Bachrach.. |
 | John Glover house, Marblehead, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "GLOVER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.98% of the time. "GLOVER" is used about 198 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 97.98% | 194 | 22,014 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.02% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 198 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GLOVER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Glover | Last name | 30,000 | 361 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Glover, VT |
Expression using "GLOVER": West Glover. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GLOVER": Glover-james. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dana glover | 339 | dana glover lyrics rain | 12 |
crispin glover | 248 | glover post | 11 |
danny glover | 157 | west glover vt | 11 |
glover | 96 | stephen glover | 11 |
savion glover | 93 | dana glover rain | 10 |
calvin glover | 44 | 1993 danny film glover | 9 |
dana glover lyrics | 42 | crispin hellion glover | 9 |
john glover | 36 | david glover | 9 |
chevrolet glover jim | 35 | bruce glover | 9 |
roger glover | 28 | crispin glover photo | 9 |
dave glover | 25 | glover will | 8 |
corey glover | 22 | danny glover movie | 8 |
jim glover dodge | 22 | richard glover | 8 |
crispin glover picture | 21 | crispen glover | 8 |
dave glover show | 19 | glover steve | 8 |
glover jim | 17 | glover park | 7 |
dana glover lyrics over thinking | 16 | glover jesse | 7 |
glover cheat | 15 | bill glover | 7 |
glover vt | 13 | glover river | 7 |
danny glover mci | 12 | crispin glover pic | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "GLOVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Këllëf Për Doreza. (various references) | |
Arabic | القفافيزى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Майстор На Ръкавици, Търговец На Ръкавици. (various references) | |
Czech | Výrobce Rukavic. (various references) | |
Danish | Glover's karklemme (Glover haemostat, Glover hemostat). (various references) | |
Dutch | vaatklem van Glover (Glover haemostat, Glover hemostat). (various references) | |
French | Gantier. (various references) | |
German | Glover Gefäßklemme (Glover haemostat, Glover hemostat), schmale Kommaschildlaus (Glover scale, Glover's scale). (various references) | |
Greek | ίατασκευαστήσ χειροκτίων, Πωλητήσ χειροκτίων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Kesztyûs. (various references) | |
Italian | Guantaio (tanner). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | overglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | luveiro. (various references) | |
Romanian | Negustor Sau Fabricant De Mãnuşi, Mãnuşar. (various references) | |
Russian | Перчаточник, перчаточник. (various references) | |
Spanish | serpetas (Glover scale, Glover's scale), pinza hemostática de Glover (Glover haemostat, Glover hemostat), escama ostión de Glover (Glover scale, Glover's scale). (various references) | |
Swedish | Handsmakare, Handskmakare. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người làm găng tay. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Lepidosaphes gloverii, Mytilococcus gloverii. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GLOVER": glovers. (additional references) | |
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"GLOVER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flover, Galver, glava, glive, glomer, glouve, gloven, gloveri, glovey, glovir, gluver, Goldvarb, goler, golzern, gover. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GLOVER" (pronounced glu"ver) |
| 4 | -l u" v er | lover. |
| 3 | -u" v er | cover, discover, hover, recover, rediscover, Shover, uncover, undercover. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: grovel. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-l-o-r-v" | |
-1 letter: glove, grove, lover, ogler. | |
-2 letters: ergo, goer, gore, levo, loge, lore, love, ogle, ogre, orle, over, role, rove, vole. | |
-3 letters: ego, erg, gel, gor, leg, lev, log, ole, ore, reg, rev, roe, veg, voe. | |
-4 letters: el, er, go, lo, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-l-o-r-v" | |
+1 letter: glovers, grovels, vorlage. | |
+2 letters: groveled, groveler, levogyre, overgild, overgilt, overglad, overlong, travelog, vorlages. | |
+3 letters: grovelers, groveling, grovelled, overgilds, overglaze, overlarge, overlight, overlying, resolving, revolting, revolving, travelogs. | |
+4 letters: forgivable, governable, grievously, grovelling, overflight, overflying, overgilded, overglazes, overlading, overlaying, overlength, overlights, overliving, overloving, overplying, overruling, overslaugh, travelogue, virologies. | |
+5 letters: grovelingly, observingly, overbilling, overblowing, overboiling, overcalling, overcooling, overfilling, overflights, overflowing, overgilding, overhauling, overholding, overindulge, overkilling, overlapping, overleaping, overlending, overletting, overlighted, overloading, overlooking, overlording, overmelting, overmilking, overplaying, oversalting, overselling, overslaughs, overtalking, overtoiling, overvaluing, overvoltage, reprovingly, revoltingly, sovereignly, sugarloaves, travelogues, vainglories. | |
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