Mitten vs Glove - What's the difference?
mitten | glove |
A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers.
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 mitten and glove
is that mitten is a type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers 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 verb glove is
to catch the ball in a baseball mitt.mitten
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(en noun)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.
