Gage vs. Glove — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Gage and Glove
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Gage
A valued object deposited as a guarantee of good faith.
Glove
A glove is a garment covering the hand. Gloves usually have separate sheaths or openings for each finger and the thumb.
Gage
Variant spelling of gauge
Glove
A close-fitting covering for the hand with a separate sheath for each finger and the thumb, worn especially as protection from the cold.
Gage
Another term for greengage
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Glove
A gauntlet.
Gage
Offer (an object or one's life) as a guarantee of good faith
A guide sent to them by the headman of this place gaged his life as a forfeit if he failed
Glove
An oversized leather glove used for catching baseballs, especially one with more finger sheaths than the catcher's or first baseman's mitt.
Gage
Variant spelling of gauge
Glove
A glove made of leather and fabric having padding on the back and extending over the wrist, used in hockey and lacrosse.
Gage
Something deposited or given as security against an obligation; a pledge.
Glove
A boxing glove.
Gage
Something, such as a glove, that is offered or thrown down as a pledge or challenge to fight.
Glove
A close-fitting glove used to improve the grip, as in batting or in golf.
Gage
A challenge.
Glove
(Baseball) Fielding ability
A shortstop with a good glove.
Gage
Any of several varieties of plum, such as the greengage.
Glove
To furnish with gloves.
Gage
Variant of gauge.
Glove
To cover with or as if with a glove.
Gage
To pledge as security.
Glove
To don gloves, as before performing an operation on a patient.
Gage
To offer as a stake in a bet; wager.
Glove
An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.
The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.
Gage
To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
Glove
A baseball mitt.
Gage
(archaic) To wager, to bet.
Glove
The ability to catch a hit ball.
Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.
Gage
(obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.
Glove
(slang) A condom.
Gage
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Glove
(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
Gage
Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
Glove
To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.
He gloved the line drive for the third out.
Gage
(obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
Glove
(transitive) To put a glove or gloves on.
Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
Gage
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Glove
(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.
Gage
A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
Glove
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.
Gage
A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
Nor without gages to the needy lend.
Glove
A boxing glove.
Gage
A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
Glove
To cover with, or as with, a glove.
Gage
A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
Glove
Gloves worn by fielders in baseball
Gage
To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
A moiety competentWas gaged by our king.
Glove
Handwear: covers the hand and wrist
Gage
To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
Great debtsWherein my time, sometimes too prodigal,Hath left me gaged.
Glove
Gloves that are big and padded; worn for boxing
Gage
Street names for marijuana
Gage
A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
Gage
Place a bet on;
Which horse are you backing?
I'm betting on the new horse
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