glove box

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noun

an enclosed compartment with openings to which long gloves are attached, enabling someone outside the compartment to reach inside and handle its contents without causing or incurring injury or contamination, as in a laboratory or hospital.

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Origin of glove box

1855–60 for earlier sense

Words nearby glove box

Gloucester Old Spot, Gloucestershire, glout, glove, glove anesthesia, glove box, glove compartment, glove leather, gloveman, glove puppet, glover

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In response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.
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He goes into some detail into what it took to persuade voters to pass marriage equality at the ballot box in four states in 2012.
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How to Train Your Dragon 2, the tenth highest grossing movie in 2014 America, made $22 million at the Korean box office.
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By 2012, the marriage equality movement had won in courts and legislatures—but not at the ballot box.
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That November, many of us were stunned as voters in four states supported marriage equality at the ballot box.
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Beside her was a box of bonbons, which she held out at intervals to Madame Ratignolle.
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Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.
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He stooped over her hand, and slobbered kisses upon her unresponsive glove.
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The little pig in the box felt himself being lifted out of the wagon.
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Mrs. Newbolt was cutting splints for her new sun-bonnet out of a pasteboard box.
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British Dictionary definitions for glove box

glove box

noun

a closed box in which toxic or radioactive substances can be handled by an operator who places his hands through protective gloves sealed to the box

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Medical definitions for glove box

glove box

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.

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