coverage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English coverage
From cover + -age. First attested in 1912. Compare Middle English coverage (“a charge for having or stall or booth at a fair”).
Base: cover
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: coverages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An amount by which something or someone is covered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough coverage for the help-desk phones.
Before laying sod on that clay, the ground needs two inches of coverage with topsoil.
The enemy fire is increasing – can we get some immediate coverage from those bunkers?
There are overlapping coverages on your insurance policies.
Professionally published dictionaries do not seem to have extended coverage beyond the most frequent and salient items.
gloss: The amount and type of attention given to an event or topic in news media or other media.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Through services using the Elizabeth line were increased from November 6, but this did not attract significant media coverage - mainly because it has been an operational success, […].
Holed up in the White House over the weekend, with temperatures dropping and a major snowstorm on its way, Mr. Trump expressed concern about the killing to aides and allies. But his frustrations were more about the coverage of the events rather than the incident itself, according to people familiar with the dynamic.
gloss: The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The area covered by a mobile phone (cellphone) or other radio network.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The primary coverage area of a station is that area throughout which the station can be received without objectionable interference from static, electrical interfering noises, or interference from other radio broadcasting stations, practically all of the time the station is in operation.
gloss: The signal strength, reception of a radio signal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mobile phone coverage is poor in some areas.
gloss: Defense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: code coverage
comprehensive coverage
coverage analysis
double coverage
miscoverage
noncoverage
outkick one's coverage
overcoverage
undercoverage
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