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# glove

«glove» in Mova's school dictionary: **a covering for your hand, with a separate place for each…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (glove, gloves)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A glove is a covering for your hand, with a separate place for each finger and the thumb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#m1)

2) Gloves keep your hands warm, clean or safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#m2)

3) A baseball glove or boxing glove is a special glove used in a sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Things counted, often in pairs (2 gloves = 1 pair), or bought for a price. In science and safety: rubber gloves protect hands from chemicals and germs; doctors and nurses wear gloves. In everyday life: winter gloves, mittens (no finger spaces). Phrases: «a pair of gloves», «fit like a glove», «put on your gloves».

### examples

- There are 10 gloves in the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#x1)
- How many pairs of gloves is that? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#x2)
- A pair of gloves costs 8 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#x3)
- She lost 1 glove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#x4)
- Put on your gloves, it is snowing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#x5)
- The nurse wore rubber gloves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#x6)
- He caught the ball in his baseball glove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#x7)
- Wear gardening gloves when you pull weeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#x8)
- I have not brought my gloves!” cried little Gerda. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/#x9)

### note

A pair of gloves is 2 gloves: pairs × 2 gives gloves, gloves ÷ 2 gives pairs. Trap: a price «per pair» is for 2 gloves. A mitten is a glove without separate fingers. Spelled with -ve: glove, gloves.

### In the corpora

- [Alice finds she has put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves, which tells her she is growing small again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/5/)
- [Strong alkalis, like oven cleaner, can burn skin even worse than some acids, so they say "wear gloves".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/7/)
- [In hospitals, sealed plastic syringes, gloves and tubes keep medicine and tools free of germs and are used only once.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/29-plastics-useful-stubborn/17/)
- [Shaking out shoes, gloves and clothes left outside stops a hidden scorpion or spider from stinging you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/13/)
- [Bats can carry rabies in some places and must only be handled with gloves by experts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glove» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glove/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.