hand wear
- noun
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- Winter hand wear is essential for keeping your fingers warm in the snow.
Examples
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Many workers are required to put on protective hand wear before entering the laboratory.
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She chose elegant lace hand wear to complement her wedding dress.
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She bought new hand wear for the winter.
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The hand wear collection includes stylish gloves.
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Many workers are required to put on protective hand wear before entering the laboratory.
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She chose elegant lace hand wear to complement her wedding dress.
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Winter hand wear is essential for keeping your fingers warm in the snow.
Synonyms
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1.0
A glove with a thumb part and one part for the other four fingers
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1.8
A warm glove that keeps the fingers together and has a thumb
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8.3
A strong protective glove that covers the hand and sometimes the arm
Items you wear on your hands like gloves or mittens
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'clothing items worn on the hands (gloves, mittens)' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'hand' (body part) with 'wear' (clothing), following productive English compounding patterns like 'footwear' or 'headwear'. This compositional and cross-linguistically common logic makes the term immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Hand wear comes from the simple idea of things you wear on your hand, like gloves or mittens that keep fingers warm or protect them. That's why it means 'clothing items worn on the hands'.