mantle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.təl/
rhymes: -æntəl
homophone: mantel
Forms: form: mantles
Etymology: From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantel; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantellum (“covering, cloak”) (French manteau), diminutive of mantum (Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull. Doublet of manteau.
Senses: coordinate_terms: mantum
glosses: A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
examples: text: At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
text: The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
text: “The great millennial novelist”—the mantle has been thrust, by Boomers and Gen Xers alike, upon the Irish writer Sally Rooney, whose two carefully observed and gentle comedies of manners both appeared before her twenty-eighth birthday. With this mantle have come prizes and money. Nearly every review has mentioned at least the prizes.
ref: 2019 April 18, Madeleine Schwartz, “How Should a Millennial Be?”, in The New York Review, →ISSN:
glosses: A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
examples: text: But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
ref: c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 1, scene 1; republished as Hamlet, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992, →ISBN, page 6:
text: the green mantle of the standing pool
ref: c. 1605-1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear:
text: Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars
ref: 1932 December, Robert E. Howard, “The Phoenix on the Sword”, in Weird Tales:
glosses: Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
examples: text: He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle.
ref: 1990, Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals, page 71
text: Molluscan bodies are broadly divided into two parts: a muscular foot and a shell-secreting mantle.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 8:
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
glosses: The zone of hot gases around a flame.
glosses: A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
glosses: The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
glosses: A penstock for a water wheel.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The cerebral cortex.
examples: text: The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The layer between Earth's core and crust.
glosses: Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”).
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A mantling.
Derived terms: assume the mantle
assuming the mantle
biomantle
bishop's mantle
Blue Mantle
carrying the mantle
carry the mantle
foot mantle
gas mantle
immantle
inmantle
lady's mantle
mantle field
mantle leaf
mantlepiece
mantle plume
mantleslug
mantle-tree
overmantle
pass the mantle
picking up the mantle
pick up the mantle
take up the mantle
taking up the mantle
transmantle
unmantle
upper mantle
water mantle
Welsbach mantle