glove

(Englisch)

Noun

1. An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
2. A baseball mitt.
3. (figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.
4. (slang) A condom.
5. (with-definite-article) A challenge from one to another.

Verb

1. (transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
2. (transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.
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.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ɡlʌv/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: glove

Geerbt von Altenglisch: glōf

Verwandt mit Schottisch: gluve

Verwandt mit Isländisch: glófi

Verwandt mit Mittelenglisch: lofe

In summary

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.

Konzepte

Handschuh

Fäustling

Glühbirne

Handschuh mit Fingern

Fanghandschuh

Glasteil einer Glühbirne

-e

Handschuh -s

Fingerhandschuh

Synonyme

mitten

mitt

gauntlet

baseball mitt

baseball glove

boxing glove

🥊

boxing-glove

boxing gloves

handwear

gaunlet

bird’s foot

hand sleeve

fin

flipper

🐬

gloves

🧤

web

webbing

Übersetzungen

gant

guante

guanto

handschoen

γάντι

luva

guant

rękawiczka

rękawica

χειρόκτιο

eldiven

قفاز

want

lepik

gant

Sätze

A woman wearing a white glove peers over the crowd .