noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fit...like a glove (= fit you very well )
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I know this dress is going to fit you like a glove .
gardening gloves/tools/equipment etc
glove compartment
glove puppet
glove/hand/finger puppet
odd socks/gloves etc (= not a matching pair of socks etc )
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He was wearing odd socks.
treat/handle sb with kid gloves
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I want you to treat Hayley with kid gloves today. She’s still upset about her father.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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She wears black gloves to cover her hands and I imagine them veined and stiff under the fabric.
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He wears a pair of black gloves .
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She was dressed in black fingerless gloves and a disintegrating taffeta cape and looked as if she'd been recently exhumed.
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Mandylor, also a writer, wears black fingerless gloves and broods magnificently while recounting stories of orgiastic dances in St-Tropez.
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He wiped a hand across his mouth, and stared at the scarlet smear on the back of his black glove .
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She wore a cream linen suit, a black straw boater, and black gloves .
bloody
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While Nicole runs around waving bloody gloves , Mia worries that Guy is coming back to get them.
kid
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Rutelli is handling the far-left Refounded Communists with kid gloves .
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I really didn't understand the kid gloves , but it was still a slap up-side their right-wing heads.
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No big deal To be sure, O. J. Simpson was treated with kid gloves .
long
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The white dresses, the long white gloves , the limos, the whole nine yards.
rubber
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They say it's normal procedure at other Universities to wash contaminated materials like rubber gloves and glass containers.
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Wear rubber gloves and protect the floor.
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A simple cleaning kit for instance can include rubber gloves , disposable masks and goggles if necessary.
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Brush clean using an old paintbrush 4 Wearing rubber gloves , pour a little Ronseal Wood Hardener into the lid.
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He'd had time to wash his hands and take off his rubber gloves and apron.
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It was soon ablaze, with the empty tin and rubber gloves buried deep in its midst.
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Again wear rubber gloves and repeat the treatment until the wood can absorb no more.
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He picked up a rubber glove whose open end was sucking in brown greasy water.
surgical
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Allied businesses such as specialist surgical gloves also offer strong growth potential worldwide.
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They came into the hallway before opening it and taking out rubber surgical gloves .
white
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The white bear in white gloves ?
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Think of a tall, gray rabbit who wears white gloves and walks around on his hind legs.
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And white gloves with a tunic of silvery mail, lying there in a tent that was empty but for himself and Klakkr.
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The white dresses, the long white gloves , the limos, the whole nine yards.
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Then he stood and gathered his hat, cigar and white gloves together in one hand.
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I am wearing white gloves and carrying a little pocketbook.
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The wooden black boy in the corner was identifiable by his white gloves in the gloom.
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They were all wearing white gloves and their hands were inside a big glass box.
woollen
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The stems were wet and she felt the dampness seeping through her woollen gloves .
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The sickening feel of woollen gloves being pulled on to your hands and hitting and blunting your fingertips so touch was lost.
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The real answer is to cover hands and feet warmly, using woollen stockings and gloves .
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I was wearing a heavy overcoat and woollen gloves but the bust whipped its way right into my bones.
■ NOUN
box
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He was staring at the glove box now, he was too low to see out of the window.
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The glove box is fair, but the tested model came with front-door bins and a large bin between the seats.
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I slowed down as I approached Colcutt village, searching in the glove box for something more soothing than Tina Turner.
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The glove box is fair, and there is additional interior storage.
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I wanted to buy a special begging pack for him, and keep it in the glove box .
compartment
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In the glove compartment of his car was another love letter, this time written by her husband.
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Miguel leaned across and opened the glove compartment , pulling out his fat plastic bag of weed.
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She got the revolver off the back seat and put it into the glove compartment with the cartridges.
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I tallied our money, sorted it, found a sickly rubber band in the glove compartment to wrap around it.
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As Harry Chiltern had said, there was always a gun in the glove compartment .
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One inspector was startled to see a woman's face peering back at him from a glove compartment box.
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I took a fresh notebook from the glove compartment and started back to talk to them.
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Before she even left the compound, Yolanda put the list away in the glove compartment .
leather
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Blanche glanced up and down the empty pavement, slid on her leather gloves and loped off into the night.
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Eric Dodd set down his wire cutters and leather gloves .
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She picked up a heavy leather glove and hit him in the face with it.
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Picking up their chamois leather gloves , they joined the boys in the hall.
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We used the old sash windows from the house, held them flat with leather gloves , steadied them down the path.
puppet
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The second uses glove puppets and is performed from a small booth to animate smaller crowds.
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Charles collapsed like a glove puppet with the hand withdrawn, and stood for a long moment, sagging.
■ VERB
fit
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But now she suddenly realised it fitted him like a glove .
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Legendary San Francisco private eye Hal Lipset and five fellow gumshoes have an offer that may fit snug as a glove .
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Praise Six years on, the job almost seems to fit him like a glove .
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Temperamentally and ideologically, the two men fit hand in glove .
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In performing calculations we know exactly what to do and the answers fit nature like a glove .
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This statement fits hand in glove with the Corinthian assertions in 6: 12-13.
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After a while, it fit like a glove , and I became comfortable with it.
garden
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I like gardening without gloves , feeling the warm moist earth in my hands.
pull
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She had been standing alone, hatted, pulling on her gloves , ready to go out.
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Then she pulled on gloves , so Simon wouldn't see that the ring was missing.
put
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She got the revolver off the back seat and put it into the glove compartment with the cartridges.
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Then put on your rubber gloves and give the meat a good squeeze with both hands.
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I put my glove back on.
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I set down my grocery bags and put on my disposable gloves .
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I put the small glove on.
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They put on gloves and masks to remove strips of insulation in the loft.
remove
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This can often be balanced by temporary exposure of skin, e.g. lowering an anorak hood or removing one or both gloves .
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Exhausted, you remove your green glove and sit on the sidelines.
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Fiennes developed severe frostbite after removing a glove while attempting to retrieve a sledge from freezing water.
take
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She kept fidgeting with her bonnet, dropping her hat-pin, taking off her gloves and putting them on again.
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By doing nothing, Daley permitted the police to take off both gloves .
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He'd had time to wash his hands and take off his rubber gloves and apron.
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Wait a minute, girl! Take those stupid gloves off.
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He took off his glove , signed it and gave it to the boy.
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Then he takes the gloves off.
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I take my glove off and try again, the metal cold and edges sharp against my skin.
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Then she took off her gloves .
treat
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No big deal To be sure, O. J. Simpson was treated with kid gloves .
use
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Sampson used to tie his gloves with straps and whilst batting in this particular game they came loose.
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The real answer is to cover hands and feet warmly, using woollen stockings and gloves .
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Protect your eyes and use the plastic gloves supplied 2 Inject foam and allow it to expand proud of the surface.
wear
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By the time he'd finished shifting the chairs, he was wearing grey gloves and a wig.
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They cite newspaper reports of police officers wearing gloves even during AIDS-related political demonstrations.
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Also I suggest you wear gloves .
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As proof, the officer points to a car surrounded by investigators wearing blood-stained rubber gloves .
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The man hit him, left hand, backhanded; he was wearing a weighted glove .
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Mandylor, also a writer, wears black fingerless gloves and broods magnificently while recounting stories of orgiastic dances in St-Tropez.
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She wears black gloves to cover her hands and I imagine them veined and stiff under the fabric.
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You may have wondered why your dentist wears gloves and perhaps a mask when treating you.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hand in glove
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Temperamentally and ideologically, the two men fit hand in glove.
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All night long the thought of his being hand in glove with Harry Martin had lingered at the back of her mind.
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Far from being independent and wary of one another, big government and mainstream media work hand in glove with each other.
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She did the bending and the kneeling, and they worked together hand in glove.
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Temperamentally and ideologically, the two men fit hand in glove.
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The flaw apparently involves the Orion chipset that works hand in glove with the new Pentium Pro or P6 microprocessor.
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This statement fits hand in glove with the Corinthian assertions in 6: 12-13.
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Was he worried that she'd finally found her proof that he was hand in glove with Harry Martin?
kid gloves
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Diana was treated with kid gloves when all she needed was some sensible advice, a cuddle and a consoling word.
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Elegant kid gloves like the ones Mrs Carson wore would have improved her image, but she possessed none.
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I really didn't understand the kid gloves, but it was still a slap up-side their right-wing heads.
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No big deal To be sure, O. J. Simpson was treated with kid gloves.
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Religion you handled with kid gloves.
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Rutelli is handling the far-left Refounded Communists with kid gloves.
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There was no point in kid gloves; she had to know sooner or later.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He also testified to a cut or damage in another area of the glove .
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They came into the hallway before opening it and taking out rubber surgical gloves.
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You may have wondered why your dentist wears gloves and perhaps a mask when treating you.