Glove vs Puppet - What's the difference?
glove | puppet |
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.
Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
(lb) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
:(Sir Walter Scott)
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(lb) A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.
(lb) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
As nouns the difference between glove and puppet
is that 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 while puppet is any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.As a verb glove
is (baseball|transitive) to catch the ball in a baseball mitt.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.