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# mitt

«mitt» in Mova's school dictionary: **a glove with one part for the thumb and one big part for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a mitt, mitts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mitt is a glove with one part for the thumb and one big part for all four fingers together, also called a mitten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mitt/#m1)

2) An oven mitt is a thick padded glove used to hold hot pans and trays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mitt/#m2)

3) A baseball mitt is a large leather glove for catching the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mitt/#m3)

4) Mitts is also a jokey word for hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mitt/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday and safety: always use oven mitts (oven gloves) to take hot things out of the oven, because hot metal and steam can burn you. In winter children wear mitts to keep hands warm. In sports in the USA and Canada, a baseball mitt is used to catch. Phrases: «oven mitt», «baseball mitt», «keep your mitts off» (do not touch).

### examples

- Put on your mitts before you build the snowman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mitt/#x1)
- Use the oven mitts to take the tray out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mitt/#x2)
- My mitt caught the baseball with a smack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mitt/#x3)
- The baby wears little mitts so she does not scratch her face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mitt/#x4)
- Keep your mitts off my sweets! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mitt/#x5)
- The mitts were soaking wet from the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mitt/#x6)

### note

Countable: «a mitt», «a pair of mitts». «Mitt» is short for «mitten»; both are fine. A glove has a separate finger for each finger; a mitt does not (but a baseball mitt is a special glove). Never use a wet mitt for hot pans: water carries heat fast and can burn you.

### In the corpora

- [Oven mitts must be dry, because heat passes quickly through a wet cloth and can burn your hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/31-kitchen-safety/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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