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Gloves should be a requirement to keep in a glove box. (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Otherwise it defeats the purpose of calling it a glove box. If gloves are not in this box it would be more accurate to describe that volume as a passenger compartment.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Not thinking of many off the top of my head but I am sure there are many things called by an obsolete name.

Trunk of a car, maybe. Used to be a literal trunk (box) strapped to the car.

Filming someone. Or taping. No film/tape involved now.

"Floppy" disk icon for saving in PC apps. Youngsters probably wonder wtf that is.

There's probably a word for this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

That word would probably be either "skeuomorph" or "vestigial"

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