(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.
Unglove
Definition:
(v. t.) To take off the glove or gloves of; as, to unglove the hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whilst the activity of chlorhexidine was short-lived against a clinical isolate of S. aureus, particularly in the ungloved hand, the sustained effect of triclosan against the same strain persisted for 4 h on either hand.
(2) In the gloved hand both antiseptics inhibited Staphylococcus epidermidis for 4 h. In the ungloved hand however, triclosan remained active longer than chlorhexidine.
(3) Surgeons are at risk of contracting these infections by a number of routes including splashes of blood on to the mucous membranes of eyes, nose and mouth, needle stick injuries and spillage of blood on chapped ungloved hands.
(4) In Studies 1 and 2, 3-year-old subjects could correctly indicate, for example, that an ice cube they were feeling with a heavily gloved finger did not feel cold to that finger (tactile appearance for the self), did feel cold to the experimenter's ungloved or thinly gloved finger (tactile appearance for another person), and was a cold ice cube, really and truly (reality).
(5) The probable cause was identified as percutaneous absorption of Fenitrothion concentrate by workers using ungloved hands to clean blocked drip feed nozzles.
(6) The sustained action of the same detergent preparations was further studied in gloved and ungloved hands by the Vinson's 'finger imprint test'.
(7) Statistically significant differences between EPT results for the same teeth with the operator's hands being gloved and ungloved were noted.
(8) Prepackaged pharmaceuticals prepared under the auspices of pharmacists and dispensed by physicians are at least as safe as those prepared by the ungloved hands of a pharmacist hidden behind store counters.
(9) Three conditions were tested: (i) with the conductive handle connected directly to the negative input lead; (ii) with the ungloved operator holding the negative input lead in one hand and the conductive handle of the EPT in the other; and (iii) holding the conductive handle in a gloved hand.
(10) To test this, a blind tutor was engaged to read a random standard length Braille passage whilst wearing selected gloves and the reading time recorded and compared with ungloved reading.