Grove vs Glove - What's the difference?
grove | glove |
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.
As nouns the difference between grove and glove
is that grove is a small forest while 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 proper noun Grove
is {{surname|habitational|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived near a grove.As a verb glove is
to catch the ball in a baseball mitt.grove
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glove
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(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.