Glove vs False - What's the difference?
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An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but allowing independent movement of the fingers.
A baseball mitt.
(baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.
(slang) A condom.
(baseball) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
To put on a glove.
(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.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun glove
is an item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but allowing independent movement of the fingers.As a verb glove
is (baseball|transitive) to catch the ball in a baseball mitt.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.glove
English
(wikipedia glove)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(glov)- He gloved the line drive for the third out.
- Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
Derived terms
* baseball glove * boxing glove * drop the gloves * fingerless glove * fit like a glove * given the glove * glovey * glovish * hand in glove * iron fist in a velvet glove * kid gloves * the gloves are off * velvet glove * work glove * deglove * glovedSee also
* gauntlet * handshoe * mitten * mittAnagrams
*false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}