glove

Reikšmė (Anglų k.)

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. The ability to catch a hit ball.
4. (slang) A condom.
5. A challenge from one to another.

Verb

1. To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
2. 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.

Sinonimai

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

Tariamas kaip (IPA)

/ɡlʌv/

Etimologija (Anglų k.)

Paveldėta iš Vidurio Anglijos: glove

Paveldėta iš senoji anglų: glōf

Sutampa su škotų: gluve

Sutampa su islandų: glófi

Sutampa su Vidurio Anglijos: 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.