different between glome vs glove

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l??m/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin glomus (“a ball”). Compare globe.

Noun

glome (plural glomes)

1. (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
2. (botany) A globular head of flowers.
3. (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

Etymology 2

Verb

glome (third-person singular simple present glomes, present participle gloming, simple past and past participle glomed)

1. (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
   • a. 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Praise of Mean and Constant Estate

     Not with loathsome muck as a den unclean,
     Nor palace like, whereat disdain may glome

Noun

glome

1. (obsolete) gloom

Anagrams

• Gomel, golem

English

Etymology

From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English gl?f, *gl?fe, *gl?fa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form gl?fan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *gal?fô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *l?fô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?p-, *l?p-, *lep- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gl?v, IPA^(key): /?l?v/
• Rhymes: -?v

Noun

glove (plural gloves)

1. An item of clothing other than a mitten, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

2. A baseball mitt.
3. (baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.

4. (slang) A condom.
5. (with definite article) A challenge from one to another.

   to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it

Synonyms

• handglove (India)
• handshoe (nonstandard)

Translations

Verb

glove (third-person singular simple present gloves, present participle gloving, simple past and past participle gloved)

1. (baseball, transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.

   He gloved the line drive for the third out.

2. (transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.

   Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
3. (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.

Derived terms

See also

• cot
• gauntlet
• handshoe
• mitt
• mitten

Anagrams

• Vogel, vogle, volge