glove
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 →
2) Gloves keep your hands warm, clean or safe. tree →
3) A baseball glove or boxing glove is a special glove used in a sport. tree →
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 →
- How many pairs of gloves is that? tree →
- A pair of gloves costs 8 dollars. tree →
- She lost 1 glove. tree →
- Put on your gloves, it is snowing. tree →
- The nurse wore rubber gloves. tree →
- He caught the ball in his baseball glove. tree →
- Wear gardening gloves when you pull weeds. tree →
- I have not brought my gloves!” cried little Gerda. tree →
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.
- Strong alkalis, like oven cleaner, can burn skin even worse than some acids, so they say "wear gloves".
- In hospitals, sealed plastic syringes, gloves and tubes keep medicine and tools free of germs and are used only once.
- Shaking out shoes, gloves and clothes left outside stops a hidden scorpion or spider from stinging you.
- Bats can carry rabies in some places and must only be handled with gloves by experts.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «glove» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.