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.
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.
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.
That word would probably be either “skeuomorph” or “vestigial”
It’s called a boot in Australia. It looks nothing like a boot!
Must be that’s where you Aussies kept your boots. I think that’s British English, tho, right?
Australia is just poor Brittan as that was the “prison island” for the brits