Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.

    He gloved the line drive for the third out.

  2. (transitive)To put a glove or gloves on.

    Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.

  3. 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.

Examples

586 sentences

  1. I bought a pair of gloves.

    Я купив пару рукавиць. — deniko

    ruЯ купил пару перчаток. — sharptoothed

    deIch habe ein Paar Handschuhe gekauft. — al_ex_an_der

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  2. Tom let me borrow his gloves.

    Том дозволив мені позичити свої рукавички. — deniko

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  3. Tom couldn't put his gloves on.

    Том не зміг одягнути рукавички. — deniko

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  4. I can't get my gloves off.

    Я не можу зняти рукавички. — deniko

    ruЯ не могу снять перчатки. — marafon

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  5. Tom is wearing gloves, isn't he?

    Том у рукавицях, так? — deniko

    deTom trägt Handschuhe, nicht wahr? — wolfgangth

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak fo

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.

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Forms

gloves, gloving, gloved, gloved
Base formglove · to glove
3rd person singulargloves
Present participlegloving
Past simplegloved
Past participlegloved

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyglove
he, she, itgloves

Past simpleLesson

all personsgloved

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gloved
he, she, ithas gloved

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill glove

Word family

59 related words
Relatedcotgauntlethandshoemittmitten
Derivedbaseball glovebatting glovebeglovedboxing glovecodglovecryoglovedata glovedeglovedriving gloveevening glovefootgloveglittenglovebagglove boxglove compartmentglovedglove dollglovefulglovelessglovelikeglovemakerglovemakingglovemanglove money

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • pair of gloves
  • the glove compartment
  • wearing gloves
  • glove compartment
  • was wearing gloves
  • put my gloves
  • his gloves off
  • coat and gloves
  • baseball glove
  • rubber gloves
  • leather gloves
  • opened the glove

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
glossyglottalglottisglowB2glucoseglue

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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