cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌvɚ/
ipa: /ˈkʌvə/
ipa: /ˈkʊvə/
ipa: /ˈkʌvəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkʊvəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɐvə/
rhymes: -ʌvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: covers
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).
Senses: glosses: A lid.
examples: text: The soldiers took cover behind a ruined building.
glosses: Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
glosses: The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
glosses: The top sheet of a bed.
glosses: A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
examples: text: There's a $15 cover tonight.
glosses: A cover charge.
examples: text: We need to set another cover for the Smith party.
text: When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
examples: text: The captain signalled his best fielder from short leg to cover.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
examples: text: The covers were put on just before lunch.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A tarpaulin or other device used to cover the wicket during rain, to prevent it getting wet.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area of the stumps that is blocked by the batsman so as to defend the wicket.
examples: text: He was brought in as cover for wicketkeeper.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A backup incase any player sustains injury during nets or midseries. Originally have to be declared part of squad before match.
examples: text: The open intervals are a cover for the real numbers.
topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
topology
hyponyms: exact cover
partition
glosses: A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
topics: law
glosses: In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
topics: business
insurance
glosses: An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
glosses: A swindler's confederate.
glosses: The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
glosses: In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from cover (noun)
word: air cover
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word: ambulance cover
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word: back cover
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word: bacover
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word: bed-cover
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word: bedcover
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word: bed cover
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word: blow someone's cover
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word: break cover
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word: chaircover
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word: cloud cover
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word: cover art
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word: cover artist
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word: cover band
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word: cover board
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word: cover boy
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word: cover charge
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word: cover crop
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word: coverdisc
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word: coverdisk
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word: cover drive
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word: cover girl
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word: cover-girl
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word: coverglass
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word: cover ground
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word: coverless
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word: cover letter
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word: coverline
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word: cover meter
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word: covermount
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word: cover name
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word: cover note
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word: cover page
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word: cover point
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word: cover price
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word: cover sand
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word: cover-shame
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word: coversheet
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word: cover shorts
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word: coverside
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word: cover slide
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word: coverslip
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word: cover slip
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word: cover-slut
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word: cover stock
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word: cover story
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word: coverstrip
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word: covertape
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word: cover-up
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word: cover version
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word: deep cover
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word: diaper cover
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word: don't judge a book by its cover
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word: dust cover
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word: dustcover
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word: edge cover
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word: extra cover
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word: first day cover
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word: first-day cover
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word: first flight cover
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word: forecover
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word: fourth cover
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word: cover to cover
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word: gill cover
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word: ground cover
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word: hardcover
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word: headcover
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word: head cover
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word: hypercover
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word: jackass cover
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word: judge a book by its cover
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word: landcover
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word: mail cover
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word: manhole cover
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word: mattress cover
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word: multicover
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word: nappy cover
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word: never judge a book by its cover
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word: non-official cover
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word: official cover
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word: open cover
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word: penis-cover
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word: pickup cover
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word: pram cover
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word: precover
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word: re-cover
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word: rump cover
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word: run for cover
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word: second day cover
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word: separate cover
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word: shoecover
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word: slipcover
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word: slut-cover
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word: snow cover
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word: softcover
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word: star-cover
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word: stopper cover
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word: straight cover
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word: subcover
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word: take cover
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word: third cover
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word: throw nickels around like manhole covers
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word: toilet cover
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word: tonneau cover
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word: umbrella-cover
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word: umbrella cover
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word: under cover
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word: undercover
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word: under cover of darkness
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word: under cover of night
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word: under the covers
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word: vertex cover
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word: you can't judge a book by its cover
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word: you can't tell a book by its cover