Definitions for cover

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cover cov·er

Spelling: [kuhv-er]

IPA: /ˈkʌv ər/

Cover is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in cover (ceorv).

Definitions for cover

noun

1. something that covers, as the lid of a container or the binding of a book.
2. a blanket, quilt, or the like:
3. protection; shelter; concealment.
4. anything that veils, screens, or shuts from sight:
5. woods, underbrush, etc., serving to shelter and conceal wild animals or game; a covert.
6. Ecology. vegetation that serves to protect or conceal animals, such as birds, from excessive sunlight, from drying, or from predators.
7. a set of eating utensils and the like, as plate, knife, fork, and napkin, placed for each person at a table.
8. an assumed identity, occupation, or business that masks the true or real one:
9. a covering of snow, especially when suitable for skiing.
10. a pretense; feigning.
11. a person who substitutes for another or stands ready to substitute if needed:
12. cover charge.
13. Philately. an envelope or outer wrapping for mail. a letter folded so that the address may be placed on the outside and the missive mailed.
14. Finance. funds to cover liability or secure against risk of loss.
15. Music. cover version.
16. Also called covering. Mathematics. a collection of sets having the property that a given set is contained in the union of the sets in the collection.

Idioms

1. blow one's cover, to divulge one's secret identity, especially inadvertently:
2. break cover, to emerge, especially suddenly, from a place of concealment:
3. cover one's / someone's ass, Slang: Vulgar. to take measures that will prevent oneself or another person from suffering blame, loss, harm, etc.
4. take cover, to seek shelter or safety:
5. under cover, clandestinely; secretly: within an envelope:

Verb phrases

1. cover up, to cover completely; enfold. to keep secret; conceal:

verb (used with object)

1. to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of:
2. to place something over or upon, as for protection, concealment, or warmth.
3. to provide with a covering or top:
4. to protect or conceal (the body, head, etc.) with clothes, a hat, etc; wrap.
5. to bring upon (oneself):
6. to hide from view; screen.
7. to spread on or over; apply to:
8. to put all over the surface of:
9. to include, deal with, or provide for; address:
10. to suffice to defray or meet (a charge, expense, etc.):
11. to offset (an outlay, loss, liability, etc.).
12. to achieve in distance traversed; pass or travel over:
13. Journalism. to act as a reporter or reviewer of (an event, a field of interest, a performance, etc.); have as an assignment: to publish or broadcast a report or reports of (a news item, a series of related events, etc.):
14. to pass or rise over and surmount or envelop:
15. Insurance. to insure against risk or loss.
16. to shelter; protect; serve as a defense for.
17. Military. to be in line with by occupying a position directly before or behind. to protect (a soldier, force, or military position) during an expected period of ground combat by taking a position from which any hostile troops can be fired upon.
18. to take temporary charge of or responsibility for in place of another:
19. to extend over; comprise:
20. to be assigned to or responsible for, as a territory or field of endeavor:
21. to aim at, as with a pistol.
22. to have within range, as a fortress does adjacent territory.
23. to play a card higher than (the one led or previously played in the round).
24. to deposit the equivalent of (money deposited), as in wagering.
25. to accept the conditions of (a bet, wager, etc.).
26. (in short selling) to purchase securities or commodities in order to deliver them to the broker from whom they were borrowed.
27. Baseball. to take a position close to or at (a base) so as to catch a ball thrown to the base:
28. Sports. to guard (an opponent on offense) so as to prevent him or her from scoring or carrying out his or her assignment:
29. (especially of a male animal) to copulate with.
30. (of a hen) to brood or sit on (eggs or chicks).

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to serve as a substitute for someone who is absent:
2. to hide the wrongful or embarrassing action of another by providing an alibi or acting in the other's place:
3. to play a card higher than the one led or previously played in the round:
4. to spread over an area or surface, especially for the purpose of obscuring an existing covering or of achieving a desired thickness and evenness:

Origin of cover

1200-50; Middle English coveren Old French covrir Latin cooperīre to cover completely, equivalent to co- co- + operīre to shut, close, cover (op-, apparently for ob-

Examples for cover

I have watched them cover their tracks with a cunning more than vulpine.

Pericles was usually represented with a helmet, to cover the deformity in his skull.

Until concern trolls like Sarah Ditum came along trying to cover it up again.

He looked above to estimate the ground he could cover on the morrow.

I was so enraged that she was not there, I wished to cover my face with my handkerchief.

When it was announced that Jourdan Dunn would be the first black model to cover British Vogue in twelve years it made me sad.

Even in the parts of the movement he does cover, some people and efforts are missing.

Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

And then, when the cover was removed, came the time of trial to your correspondent.

Jourdan Dunn is the first sole black woman to feature on a British ‘Vogue’ cover in 12 years.