mitten
part of speech
noun (a mitten, mittens)
meaning for a pupil
1) A mitten is a glove that covers the four fingers together in one part and the thumb in a separate part. tree →
2) An oven mitt or oven mitten is a thick padded glove for holding hot pans. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and stories, children wear mittens in the snow; they are warmer than gloves because the fingers stay together. In maths, pairs of mittens are used for counting in twos: 7 pairs is 14 mittens. Phrases: a pair of mittens, oven mitt.
examples
- I wore my woolly mittens to build a snowman. tree →
- Mittens are warmer than gloves. tree →
- Little Tom lost one of his mittens in the park. tree →
- 5 children each have a pair of mittens, so there are 10 mittens. tree →
- Use the oven mitt to take out the hot tray. tree →
- Grandma knitted me red mittens. tree →
- However, you shall not be frozen for the want of it; here are my mother's large warm mittens; they will reach up to your elbows. tree →
note
Countable; usually in pairs: "a pair of mittens". Short form: mitt. A glove has separate fingers; a mitten does not.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «mitten» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.