different between glove vs manchette

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

English

Etymology

From French manchette.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?????t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?n???t/
• Hyphenation: man?chette

Noun

manchette (plural manchettes)

1. (chiefly historical) an ornamental trimming round the lower part of a sleeve, or a ruffle (of hair, etc.) of similar appearance
2. (biology) a sheath of microtubules which surrounds and extends tailwards from the nucleus of developing spermatids.
3. (fencing) a special glove cover worn by fencers, specifically sabreurs, on their weapon hand
4. (cooking) a paper frill attached to the exposed end of a bone of a cooked piece of meat
5. (furniture) an upholstered arm on a wooden-frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil.
6. (printing) a vertical heading within a newspaper article.
7. (cycling) a sleeve for the forearm, worn especially by triathletes and made of materials that reduce wind drag.

Translations

French

Etymology

From manche +? -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??.??t/

Noun

manchette f (plural manchettes)

1. cuff
2. oversleeve, manchette
3. (journalism) headline
4. marginal note; note in the margin

Descendants

• German: Manschette
• Norwegian: mansjett (Bokmål), mansjett (Nynorsk)
• Portuguese: manchete
• Romanian: man?et?
• Russian: ???????? (manžéta)

Further reading

• “manchette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).