Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See glove compartment.
- n. An enclosed workspace equipped with gloved openings that allow manipulation in the interior, designed to prevent contamination of the product, the environment, or the worker.
Wiktionary
- n. automotive A small compartment with a door on the dashboard of a car, usually on passenger side, to store (and sometime lock) items.
- n. A plastic box or similar enclosure containing a controlled environment, with rubber gloves fastened around holes in the front of the box through which a person can manipulate things in the box without introducing outside contamination; an isolator.
Examples
“He grabbed his Stetson, rammed it onto his head, pulled a ï¬ashlight from the glove box and slipped his reading glasses onto his nose, then stepped outside his car.”
““How odd,” she whispered and wished she’d had the presence of mind to bring her ï¬ashlight with her instead of leaving it in the glove box of the car.”
“She says Asa kept ï¬ve thousand locked in the glove box of his car at all times in case he joined up with a private poker party.”
“What she’d discovered, locked in the glove box of the shiny black sports car, was an expensive watch, a card signed by initials she recognized as belonging to Connie Hastings, the owner of a rival radio station that was trying to lure Luke away from his job at WSLJ, and the singularly devastating knowledge that her husband had been cheating on her.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glove box’.
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
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ENVI - Collocations DEFG
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
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Things that might be radioactive
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In Cars
I've never learned how to drive or care for a car, but I recently inherited one that probably needs some work. Here's a list of vocabulary words I'll need to learn.
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Tweets
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hernesheir A wooden box nailed to the side of the corn wagon used to hold spare pairs of shucking gloves. My father's term (along with jockey-box) for the glove compartment of modern automobiles. Feb 12, 2010