glove
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(clothing) An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.
The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.
- 2.
A baseball mitt.
- 3.
(figuratively)(baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.
Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.
- 4.
(slang)A condom.
- 5.
(with definite article)A challenge from one to another.
to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it
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verb- 1.
(transitive)(baseball, 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.
(cricket) 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.
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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 gluve, gluive (glove), glófi glove.