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cover
English
Etymology
From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperi? (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operi? (“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)wr?on (“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”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?v?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?v?/
- Rhymes: -?v?(?)
Noun
cover (countable and uncountable, plural covers)
- A lid.
- (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
- The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
- The top sheet of a bed.
- A cloth, usually fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa to protect it from dust, rain, etc. when not in use.
- A cover charge.
- A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
- (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
- (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
- (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
- (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
- (law) 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.
- (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
- (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
- (dated) A swindler's confederate.
- The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
- (construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Hijazi Arabic: ?????? (kavar)
Translations
Adjective
cover (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
- (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
Translations
Verb
cover (third-person singular simple present covers, present participle covering, simple past and past participle covered)
- (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
- (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- (intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
- (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
- 1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
- the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland
- 1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
- (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
- To deal with or include someone or something.
- 2010 (publication date), "Contributors", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 7:
- Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist, The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired.
- 2010 (publication date), "Contributors", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 7:
- To be enough money for.
- (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
- (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
- (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
- (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
- To provide insurance coverage for.
- To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
- Synonym: impregnate
- (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
- To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
- (sports) To defend a particular player or area.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cover.
Derived terms
Descendants
- German: covern
- Danish: lave en cover
Translations
Anagrams
- corve
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English cover.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?.v?r/, /?k?.v?r/
- Hyphenation: co?ver
Noun
cover m (plural covers, diminutive covertje n)
- A cover, cover song, cover version (rerecording of a previously recorded song, typically by a different artist).
- A cover, the front of a magazine or of the package of a storage medium.
Derived terms
- coveren
- coverversie
Finnish
Etymology
From English cover.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ko?er/, [?ko??e?r]
Noun
cover
- cover, cover version, cover song (rerecording of a previously recorded song)
Declension
Synonyms
- koveri, coverversio
French
Etymology
From English cover.
Noun
cover m (plural covers)
- (colloquial) cover (rerecording)
German
Verb
cover
- inflection of covern:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
Polish
Etymology
From English cover.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?.v?r/, /?ka.v?r/
Noun
cover m inan
- (music) cover version (rerecording of a song)
Declension
Further reading
- cover in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- cover in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
From English cover.
Noun
cover m or f (rare) (plural coveres)
- (music) cover version (rerecording of a song by another musician or group)
- Synonym: versão cover
Spanish
Etymology
From English cover.
Noun
cover m (plural covers)
- cover, cover version
Swedish
Etymology
From English cover.
Noun
cover c
- (music) cover, cover song
Usage notes
The plural of this word could also be covers.
Declension
Derived terms
- coverband
References
- cover in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
cover From the web:
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paint
English
Etymology
From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin ping? (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native Old English t?afor (“paint”) and *t?efran (“to paint”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe?nt/
- Rhymes: -e?nt
Noun
paint (countable and uncountable, plural paints)
- A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.
- (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.
- (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.
- The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.
- (uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.
- I am running low on paint for my marker.
- (poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).
- (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
- (uncountable) Makeup.
- (uncountable, slang) Tattoo work.
- Synonym: ink
- (dated) Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.
- The appearance of an object on a radar screen.
- 1973, International Conference on Radar--Present and Future, 23-25 October, 1973 (page 203)
- Smaller target paints would also be preferred to those displayed on the existing DFTI.
- 1973, International Conference on Radar--Present and Future, 23-25 October, 1973 (page 203)
Derived terms
Translations
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN
Verb
paint (third-person singular simple present paints, present participle painting, simple past and past participle painted)
- (transitive) To apply paint to.
- (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
- (transitive, medicine) To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
- c. 1590s, William Shakespeare, Spring (poem)
- Cuckoo buds of yellow hue / Do paint the meadows with delight.
- c. 1590s, William Shakespeare, Spring (poem)
- (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.
- to paint a portrait or a landscape
- (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.
- I've been painting since I was a young child.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
- (transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.
- (intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
- (transitive, military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward.
Derived terms
Related terms
- picture
Translations
Further reading
- paint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- paint in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- paint at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Atnip, NAITP, inapt, inpat, nip at, patin, pinta, tap in, tap-in
Catalan
Verb
paint
- present participle of pair
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