(n.) A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the glove from the mitten.
(n.) A boxing glove.
(v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a glove.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(2) a) To determine the frequency of perforations in latex surgical gloves before, during, and after surgical and dental procedures; b) to evaluate the topographical distribution of perforations in latex surgical gloves after surgical and dental procedures; and c) to validate methods of testing for latex surgical glove patency.
(3) Analytical recovery from cotton gloves, solutions of foliar dislodgeable residues, and air-sampling filters was essentially complete.
(4) The exposures to the finger positions then were repeated with the monitor inside a 0.5 mm lead-equivalent glove.
(5) Despite the high rates of dermatoses found in a study of 686 female workers in a canning factory in March 1990, use of protective gloves was extremely low, even though there was evidence that they prevented acute paronychia and intertrigo.
(6) Burqas, hijabs, gloves are not mentioned in the Qur'an either.
(7) It was hypothesized that the noted inhibition was a result of contamination with latex gloves.
(8) Results of the determinations indicated that protective leather gloves contained considerable content of chromium, and chromium-free machine oils and lubricants were polluted with chromium's minute quantities as the oils and lubrications were being used.
(9) We found that thin gloves manufactured from polyethylene or polyvinyl chloride are ineffective barriers while gloves of thin latex are superior but not without failure.
(10) Glove manufacturers were queried to ascertain the occurrence of Lowinox 44S36 and butylhydroxyanisole in different brands of latex and vinyl examination gloves.
(11) In total, 275 pairs of gloves were collected from 100 consecutive operations.
(12) The procedures at a high risk of glove punctures were hip operations (57 per cent) and internal fixation (54 per cent).
(13) The perforation rates for the outer and inner layers were 35.3 and 8.8% respectively, indicating that a second set of gloves substantially improves the likelihood of maintaining an intact barrier between medical staff and patient.
(14) A 30-year-old surgeon developed reactions to latex gloves.
(15) Two kidneys (Group 3), deemed unsuitable for transplantation, were perfused for 24 hours with perfusate swished with unwashed sterile gloves.
(16) The experimental model used may permit rapid investigation of other glove systems as barriers to the transfer of infectious agents through gloves by needlestick.
(17) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
(18) The air of the wards and operating theatre as well as the hands and gloves of surgeons and assistant nurses apparently did not play any role as a source of S. aureus infection.
(19) Droplets of each admixture were placed on stainless steel, laboratory coat cloth, pieces of latex examination glove, bench-top absorbent padding, and other materials on which antineoplastics might spill or leak.
(20) Dermatologists are now wearing gloves for most procedures.
Mitten
Definition:
(n.) A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.
(n.) A cover for the wrist and forearm.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report two children with finger tip ischaemia resulting from woollen mittens.
(2) Romney should totally come out with a ventriloquist's puppet called Mr Mittens and channel all answers through him.
(3) The majority of the toe and external genitalia cases were caused by hair, whereas the majority of finger strangulations were caused by thread from mittens.
(4) TGF-alpha interacts with the receptor as a mitten would grasp an object.
(5) The VHD is a circular fabric mitten, which is held easily by inserting the hand between the two surfaces.
(6) Neil Franklyn (Stoke and England) and Charlie Mitten (Man Utd), amongst others, took the money and ran.
(7) He missed the place: the cold, the skating rinks, the desperate need for mittens in winter.
(8) Although the mitten appeared largely to be clinically separated from the underlying fixed digits, histology showed mostly normal keratinocytes beneath a thickened stratum corneum.
(9) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
(10) Anderson made the “safe” sign after landing her final jump and flipped her right mitten in the air before exchanging hugs with Rukajarvi, Jones and Switzerland’s Sina Candrian.
(11) Light and electron microscopy and indirect immunofluorescence techniques were used to study the nature of the mitten deformity in five adult patients with severe generalized recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa undergoing release of hand and finger contractures.
(12) A substantial portion of the mitten, however, consisted of necrotic keratinocytes without an intact basement membrane.
(13) Re-analyses of mitten incidence in schizophrenics and nonschizophrenics suggests needed modification of our earlier B-Mitten-schizophrenia formulation.
(14) Warner’s broadcast was called The Gloves Are Off , leading to Oliver, who has been a staunch and witty critic of Fifa for some time, largely in his role as presenter of the US show Last Week Tonight , to call his The Mittens of Disapproval Are On.
(15) That the mitten pattern possibly suggests as yet unclarified subcortical dysfunction associated with symptoms of affective disturbance is a tentative hypothesis offered for consideration.
(16) As to the apple, the eating was tricky, since my hands were tied to my waist and I wore mittens.
(17) Top tip Be sure to get out of the car and experience some this wide-open landscape on foot via the 3.2-mile Wildcat trail, around the West Mitten butte.
(18) As several of you pointed out, Ronaldo is the highest-profile player to have matched Mitten's achievement.
(19) Real Madrid attempted to entice Mitten, Di Stefano and Rial to the Bernabéu in 1951, but Mitten's wife was homesick, so they headed home.
(20) We found a possible relationship between the subcortical B-mitten EEG pattern and TD.