different between pugilist vs glove

English

Etymology

From Latin pugil (“boxer”) +? -ist, related to pugnus (“fist”), from Proto-Indo-European *pew?-, *pew?- (“prick, punch”). Compare contemporary pugilism (“boxing”) (1791).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pju?.d??l?st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pju(?).d??l?st/

Noun

pugilist (plural pugilists)

1. One who fights with his fists; especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer. [from 1790]

Derived terms

• pugilistic

Related terms

• pugilism
• pugnacious

Translations

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pugiliste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?py.?i?l?st/
• Hyphenation: pu?gi?list
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

pugilist m (plural pugilisten, feminine pugiliste)

1. pugilist, boxer, fistfighter

   Synonyms: bokser, vuistvechter

Derived terms

• pugiliste
• pugilistiek
• pugilistisch

Related terms

• pugilisme

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pugiliste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.d??i?list/

Noun

pugilist m (plural pugili?ti, feminine equivalent pugilist?)

1. pugilist, boxer (participant in a boxing match)

Declension

Synonyms

• boxer

Related terms

• pugila
• pugilat
• pugilism
• pugilistic
• pugilistic?

References

• pugilist in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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