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Definition: Glove |
GloveNoun1. Gloves worn by fielders in baseball. 2. Handwear: covers the hand and wrist. 3. Gloves that are big and padded; worn for boxing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glove" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Literature | Glove In the days of chivalry it was customary for knights to wear a lady's glove in their helmets, and to defend it with their life. "One ware on his headpiece his ladies sleve, And another bare on hys helme the glove of his Dearlynge." - Hall: Chronicle, Henry IV. Glove A bribe. (See Glove Money .) Hand and glove. Sworn friends; on most intimate terms; close companions, like glove and hand. "And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove." Cowper. He bit his glove. He resolved on mortal revenge. On the "Border," to bite the glove was considered a pledge of deadly vengeance. "Stern Rutherford right little said, But bit his glove and shook his head." Sir Walter Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel. Here I throw down my glove. I challenge you. In allusion to an ancient custom of a challenger throwing his glove or gauntlet at the feet of the person challenged, and bidding him to pick it up. If he did so the two fought, and the vanquisher was considered to be adjudged by God to be in the right. To take up the glove means, therefore, to accept the challenge. "I will throw my glove to Death itself, that There's no maculation in thy heart." - Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, iv. 4. To take up the glove. To accept the challenge made by casting a glove or gauntlet on the ground. Right as my glove. The phrase, says Sir Walter Scott, comes from the custom of pledging a glove as the signal of irrefragable faith. (The Antiquary. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | Protective clothing to guard the fingers, hands, and sometimes the wrists and forearm, from cuts, abrasions, chemicals and other hazards. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A glove (Middle English from Old English glof) is a type of garment which covers the hand. Gloves have separate sheaths or openings for each finger and the thumb; if there is an opening but no covering sheath for each finger they are called "fingerless gloves". Hand garments without separate finger openings or sheaths are called "mittens".
Gloves can serve to protect and comfort the hands of the wearer against cold, physical damage by friction or abrasion, and disease; or in turn to provide a guard for what a bare hand should not touch. Fingerless gloves are useful for cold environments where dexterity is required that gloves would restrict. Cigarette smokerss and church organists often use fingerless gloves. Some gloves include a gauntlet that extends partway up the arm.
Gloves have been made of many materials including cloth, knitted or felted wool, leather, rubber, latex, and metal (as in chain mail).
Today gloves are made around the world. Most expensive women's gloves are still made in France, with some made in Canada. For cheaper male gloves New York State, especially Gloversville, New York is still a world centre of glove manufacturing. More and more glove manufacturing is being done in east Asia, however.
History
Gloves appear to be of great antiquity. According to some translations of Homer's, The Odyssey, Laërtes is described as wearing gloves while walking in his garden so as to avoid the brambles. (Other translations, however, insist that Laertes pulled his long sleeves over his hands.) Herodotus, in The History of Herodotus (440 BC), tells how Leotychides was incriminated by a glove (gauntlet) full of silver that he received as a bribe. Among the Romans also there are occasional references to the use of gloves. According to Pliny the Younger (ca. 100), his uncle's shorthand writer wore gloves during the winter so as not to impede the elder Pliny's work.
Gloves are also used for fashion, ceremonial, and religious purposes. British and European Ladies in the 13th century began to wear gloves as fashion ornaments. They were made of linen and silk and sometimes reached to the elbow. It was not until the 16th century that they reached their greatest elaboration, however, when Queen Elizabeth set the fashion for wearing them richly embroidered and jeweled.
Embroidered and jeweled gloves also formed part of the insignia of emperors and kings. Thus Matthew of Paris, in recording the burial of Henry II of England in 1189, mentions that be was buried in his coronation robes with a golden crown on his head and gloves on his hands. Gloves were also found on the hands of King John when his tomb was opened in 1797 and on those of King Edward I when his tomb was opened in 1774.
Pontifical gloves are liturgical ornaments used primarily by the pope, the cardinals, and bishops. They may be worn only at the celebration of mass. The liturgical use of gloves has not been traced beyond the beginning of the 10th century, and their introduction may have been due to a simple desire to keep the hands clean for the holy mysteries, but others suggest that they were adopted as part of the increasing pomp with which the Carolingian bishops were surrounding themselves. From the Frankish kingdom the custom spread to Rome, where liturgical gloves are first heard of in the earlier half of the 11th century.
External sources and references
- Pliny the Younger: Selected Letters
- The History of Herodotus by Herodotus, Volume VI, at classics.mit.edu
- 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. A significant source of this Wikipedia article; there's much information still to be included.
Specialized Gloves
- Archer's glove
- Baseball glove: in baseball, the players in the field wear gloves to help them to catch the ball and prevent injury to their hands.
- Bicyclist's glove
- Billiards glove
- Cyberglove
- Falconer's glove
- Gardener's glove
- Hockey goalie catch glove
- Welder's glove
- Yachting glove
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Glove."
Synonyms: GloveSynonyms: baseball glove (n), baseball mitt (n), boxing glove (n), gloves (n), mitt (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Verb: be accordant; Adjective: agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a T; match; become one; homologate. |
Clothing | Glove, gauntlet, mitten, cuff, wristband, sleeve. |
Contention | Join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand; take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet; enter the lists; couch one's lance; give satisfaction; appeal to arms; (warfare). |
Defiance | Challenge, call out; throw down the gauntlet, fling down the gauntlet, fling down the gage, fling down the glove, throw down the glove. |
Friendship | Acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy; welcome. |
Servility | Adjective: servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching; Verb: |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | The President will get his baseball glove back and play catch with this guy's balls (Air Force One; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe) Aw, c'mon, not on my glove. (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck) Of course the bra isn't going to fit on a leotard! A bra's got to go up against the skin! Like a glove! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) I love the power glove, it's so bad. (The Wizard; writing credit: David Chisholm) His pants fit like a glove. (The Hollywood Knights; writing credit: Floyd Mutrux; Richard Lederer) | |
Lyrics | It fits so tight, closer than a glove (Valotte; performing artist: Julian Lennon) Your heart fits me like a glove (True Blue; performing artist: Madonna) And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him (The Boxer; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) You’re the glove and I’m the hand (Brand New Day; performing artist: Sting) | |
Clever | If you drop a white glove into the mud, the glove will get muddy, but the mud will never get glovey. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Iron Glove (1954) Kid Glove Killer (1942) Glove Birds (1942) Excuse My Glove (1936) Kid Glove Kisses (1932) | |
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 | Glove for scale on sea ice. Coulman Island is the backdrop. 73 28 S Latitude 169 45 E Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Medium shot of Sphaeralcea grossular ide folia, Red Glove Mallow. Credit: John Craig. |
 | Closeup shot of Sphaeralcea grossular ide folia, Red Glove Mallow. Credit: John Craig. |  | A "glove box" in the plant for handling radioactive waste. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by E. Mandelmann.. |
 | No glove, no love him... rubbers - everytime!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | His first glove. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The story of the glove : duly signed and sealed -- by a glove. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hand with Prussian eagle on glove carving the states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas "for Mexico" out of map of U.S. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Alexander Melville Bell, half-length watercolor portrait, seated facing front, holding glove in left hand. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Anna R.L. Baker, three-quarter length portrait, seated, with arm on table, wearing glove on one hand. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Lone Glove" by Gabriel Rezende Souza Commentary: "Old glove found at a construction site near a Bridge at Brasília, Brazil." | "Rubber glove" by Debbie L Manville Commentary: "Close up rubber glove." |
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Charles V | Iron hand in a velvet glove. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | True love is in despair and in raptures over a glove lost or a handkerchief found, and it requires eternity for its devotion and its hopes |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MOUSQUETAIRE, n. A long glove covering a part of the arm. Worn in New Jersey. But "mousquetaire" is a might poor way to spell muskeeter. |
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| "Glove" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.17% of the time. "Glove" is used about 362 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 (singular) | 99.17% | 359 | 15,003 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.55% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.28% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 362 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "glove": 5th Glove ♦ an iron hand in a velvet glove ♦ an odd glove ♦ baseball glove ♦ bath glove ♦ batting glove ♦ be hand and glove with ♦ be hand in glove ♦ be hand in glove with ♦ be hand in glove with smb. ♦ boxing glove ♦ chain mail glove ♦ data glove ♦ fingered glove ♦ fit like a glove ♦ fling down the glove ♦ glove anesthesia ♦ glove box ♦ glove compartment ♦ glove doll ♦ Glove fight ♦ glove leather ♦ glove maker ♦ Glove money ♦ glove puppet ♦ Glove silver ♦ Glove sponge ♦ golf glove ♦ Hair glove ♦ hand and glove ♦ hand and glove or in glove ♦ hand in glove ♦ in a velvet glove ♦ it fits him like a glove ♦ kid glove ♦ Lisle glove ♦ Mermaid's glove ♦ metal glove ♦ mousquetaire glove ♦ oven glove ♦ pick up the glove ♦ rubber glove ♦ suede glove ♦ supple as a glove ♦ take up the glove ♦ the fellow of a glove ♦ three fingered glove ♦ throw down the glove ♦ To be hand and glove with ♦ to be hand in glove with ♦ To take up the glove ♦ To throw down the glove ♦ woolen glove ♦ work glove ♦ worker's glove. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "glove": glove-box, glove-covered, glove-leather, glove-like, glove-limp, glove-losers, glove-maker, glove-making, glove-pocket, glove-prints, glove-stretchers, glove-tanned, glove-type, glove-wearing. | |
Ending with "glove": nerve-glove. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "glove"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vesh dorezë, dorezë (butt, crook, grip, gripe, griping, haft, handgrip, handle, joystick, knob, stock, tommy bar). (various references) | |
Arabic | كسا بقفاز, قفز (bound, flier, gambol, hop, jump, jump out, leap, leapfrog, leaping, leapt, lope, pop, skip, spring, start up, vault), قفاز (jumper, leaper), الواقي (condom, conservator, preservative). (various references) | |
Basque | eskularru. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | átsi'tsi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам ръкавица на, ръкавица. (various references) | |
Chinese | 手套 (mitten). (various references) | |
Cornish | manek. (various references) | |
Czech | rukavice (gauntlet). (various references) | |
Danish | handske (mitten). (various references) | |
Dutch | handschoen (mitten). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ganto (mitten). (various references) | |
Faeroese | vøttur (mitten), handski (mitten). (various references) | |
Farsi | دستکش (Chevron, Gantlet). (various references) | |
Finnish | hansikas (mitten). (various references) | |
French | gant. (various references) | |
Frisian | mof (mitten). (various references) | |
German | handschuh (mitten). (various references) | |
Greek | γάντι (gauntlet, mitt). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כפפה, כסיה (mitt), בית יד (handle, sleeve). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kesztyû (mitten). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sarung tangan (gauntlet). (various references) | |
Italian | guanto (gantlet, gauntlet). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 手袋 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | グローヴ , グローブ (globe), グラブ , てぶくろ. (various references) | |
Korean | 장갑 (gloves). (various references) | |
Manx | lauean, cur laueanyn er. (various references) | |
Norwegian | hanske (mitten). (various references) | |
Occitan | gant. (various references) | |
Papago | nowi koshdag. (various references) | |
Papiamen | wante (mitten), hanskun (mitten), anskun (mitten). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oveglay.(various references) | |
Polish | rękawiczka (mitten). (various references) | |
Portuguese | luva (gantlet, gauntlet, mitten). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | porta-malas (glove compartment). (various references) | |
Romanian | månuşå (mitten), mãnuşã (gauntlet). (various references) | |
Russian | перчатка (gauntlet). (various references) | |
Scottish | làmhainn. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rukavica, navući rukavicu na. (various references) | |
Spanish | guante (mitt, mitten). (various references) | |
Swedish | handske (gauntlet, mitten), vante (mitten). (various references) | |
Thai | ถุงมือหนาใช้จับภาชนะร้อนจากเตาอบ (oven glove), คับๆ นิดหน่อย (fit like a glove). (various references) | |
Turkish | eldiven giydirmek, eldiven (gantlet, mitt, mitten), eldíven (mitten). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ellik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рукавичка (mitt), надівати рукавичку. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | găng rất thân với, tất tay, cộng tác với, bao tay. (various references) | |
Welsh | maneg (gauntlet, vulva). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glove": gloved, glover, glovers, gloves. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "glove": foxglove, unglove. (additional references) | |
Words containing "glove": foxgloves, ungloved, ungloves. (additional references) | |
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"Glove" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blove, Giova, giove, Giovio, glav, glava, glif, glive, Glodex, glofe, Glonek, glote, glouve, gloven, glovey, glowe, gluv, Golke, goove, gov, gove. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glove" (pronounced glu"v) |
| 3 | -l u" v | love. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-l-o-v" | |
-1 letter: levo, loge, love, ogle, vole. | |
-2 letters: ego, gel, leg, lev, log, ole, veg, voe. | |
-3 letters: el, go, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-l-o-v" | |
+1 letter: gloved, glover, gloves, grovel, lovage. | |
+2 letters: glovers, grovels, lovages, lovebug, unglove, voltage, vorlage. | |
+3 letters: aasvogel, evolving, foxglove, gavelock, groveled, groveler, hoveling, levogyre, livelong, lovebugs, megavolt, overgild, overgilt, overglad, overlong, travelog, ungloved, ungloves, voltages, vorlages. | |
+4 letters: aasvogels, devolving, evildoing, foxgloves, gavelocks, grovelers, groveling, grovelled, hovelling, longevity, longevous, megavolts, overgilds, overglaze, overlarge, overlight, overlying, resolving, revolting, revolving, shoveling, travelogs, volleying. | |
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