| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrap, hide |
Synonyms: |
blanket, board up, bury, bush up, cache, camouflage, canopy, cap, carpet, cloak, clothe, coat, conceal, cover up, crown, curtain, daub, disguise, do on the sly, dress, eclipse, encase, enclose, enfold, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, hood, house, invest, layer, mantle, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, overspread, protect, put on, screen, secrete, set on, shade, shield, shroud, stash, superimpose, superpose, surface, veil |
Antonyms: |
lay bare, lay out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | protect, guard |
Synonyms: |
bulwark, defend, fend, house, reinforce, safeguard, screen, secure, shelter, shield, watch over |
Antonyms: |
abandon, disregard, forget, ignore, leave alone |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | include, contain |
Synonyms: |
be enough, comprehend, comprise, consider, deal with, embody, embrace, encompass, examine, incorporate, involve, meet, provide for, reach, refer to, suffice, survey, take account of |
Antonyms: |
exclude |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | describe in published writing |
Synonyms: |
broadcast, detail, investigate, narrate, recount, relate, report, tell of, write up |
Antonyms: |
disregard, forget, ignore |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fill in for, compensate |
Synonyms: |
balance, counterbalance, double for, insure, make good, make up for, offset, relieve, stand in for, substitute, take over, take the rap for |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | travel across area |
Synonyms: |
cross, do, journey over, pass over, pass through, range, track, traverse, trek |
| Main Entry: | covering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | top |
Synonyms: |
cover, housing, integument, shelter |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
antipudic, apatetic, armor, conchiferous, conchitic, conchological, cortical, covered, covering, cutaneous, cuticular, cyanotic, decorticated, deric, dermal, desquamate, doughfaced, echinulate, enameled, encrusted, encuirassed, flue, furfuraceous, galericulate, imbricate, imbricated, incanous, ironclad, lanuginous, lepidote, lined, loricated, lutose, overlaid, pastose, plumulaceous, procryptic, rorulent, scaled, scaly, scurfy, skinny, squamaceous, squamate, squamous, stegocephalic, stimulose, strigillose, stupulose, superincumbent, superjacent, tegumentary, tomentose, under cover
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| Concept: | Covering. |
| Category: | 3. Centrical dimensions; general |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
covering, cover; baldachin, baldachino, baldaquin; canopy, tilt, awning, tent, marquee, tente d'abri, umbrella, parasol, sunshade; veil (shade); shield (defense)., roof, ceiling, thatch, tile; pantile, pentile; tiling, slates, slating, leads; barrack [U.S.], plafond, planchment [U.S.], tiling, shed (abode) [more]., top, lid, covercle, door, operculum; bulkhead [U.S.]., bandage, plaster, lint, wrapping, dossil, finger stall., coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget; housing; antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip; linoleum; saddle cloth, blanket cloth; tidy; tilpah [U.S.], apishamore [U.S.]., integument, tegument; skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather, shagreen, hide; pelt, peltry; cordwain; derm; robe, buffalo robe [U.S.]; cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis., clothing; mask (concealment)., peel, crust, bark, rind, cortex, husk, shell, coat; eggshell, glume., capsule; sheath, sheathing; pod, cod; casing, case, theca; elytron; elytrum; involucrum; wrapping, wrapper; envelope, vesicle; corn husk, corn shuck; dermatology, conchology; testaceology., veneer, facing; engobe; pavement; scale (layer); coating, paint; varnish (resin); anointing; inunction; incrustation, superposition, obduction; ground, enamel, whitewash, plaster, stucco, compo; cerement; ointment (grease).
-verbs
cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap; incase; face, case, veneer, pave, paper; tip, cap, bind; bulkhead, bulkhead in; clapboard [U.S.]., coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stuccco, dab, plaster, tar; wash; besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash; parget; lay it on thick., overlie, overarch; endome; conceal.
-adjectives
covering; cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous; covered; imbricated, loricated, armor plated, ironclad; under cover; cowled, cucullate, dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform; vaginate.
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| Main Entry: | apply |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put substance on another |
Synonyms: |
administer, affix, anoint, bestow, cover, fasten, join, lay on, massage, paint, place, put on, rub, smear, spread, touch |