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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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- what covers most of the arabian peninsula
- what covers the moon
- what covers the outside of all prokaryotes
- what covers most of the earth
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- what covers the ends of long bones
thumb
English
Alternative forms
- thum, thume, thumbe (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þ?ma, from Proto-Germanic *þ?mô (compare West Frisian tomme, Dutch duim, Low German Dumen, German Daumen, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme), from Proto-Indo-European *t?m- (“to grow”) (compare Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tum?re (“to swell”), Lithuanian tum?ti (“to thicken, clot”), Ancient Greek ?????? (túmbos, “burial mound”), Avestan ????????????????? (am?t, “strong”), Sanskrit ????? (túmra, “strong, thick”)). The parasitic ?b has existed since the late 13th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
thumb (plural thumbs)
- The short thick digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
- (graphical user interface) The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
- (colloquial, Internet) A thumbnail picture.
- 2001, "Gary", Wanna See Porn? Take a Look At These (Free Expandable Thumbs) - CLICK HERE (on newsgroup alt.sex.services)
Synonyms
- (digit): pollex, digit I, first digit (anatomy) ; thumby (colloquial)
Hypernyms
- (digit): digit, finger
Hyponyms
- (digit): opposable thumb
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
thumb (third-person singular simple present thumbs, present participle thumbing, simple past and past participle thumbed)
- (transitive) To touch or cover with the thumb.
- (transitive, with through) To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily.
- (travel) To hitchhike
- 1969, Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, "Me and Bobby McGee":
- Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained.
- 1980, Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, "Smoky Mountain Rain":
- Thumbed a diesel down, outside a cafe.
- 1969, Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, "Me and Bobby McGee":
- To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling.
- To manipulate (an object) with the thumb; especially, to pull back the hammer or open the cylinder of a revolver.
- To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
- 2011, by Hans-Christian Vortisch, GURPS Tactical Shooting, pg 14
- To thumb a single-action revolver, hold down the trigger and use the thumb on the same hand to fire the gun by manipulating the hammer.
- 2011, by Hans-Christian Vortisch, GURPS Tactical Shooting, pg 14
Synonyms
- (to turn pages): browse, leaf, page, peruse
Derived terms
Related terms
- (firing a single action revolver via hammer flicks while trigger is held down) fanning (using opposite hand instead of thumb)
Translations
References
Albanian
Alternative forms
- thumbi, thump
Etymology
From *thon (“(finger)nail”) (modern thua). More at thua.
Noun
thumb m (indefinite plural thumba)
- stinger (of a bee)
- thorn, prick
- bell clapper, tongue (of bell)
- tack, thumbtack, shoe tack (spike)
- point of arrowhead, spiked tip of a goad or prod
Derived terms
- thumbull
Middle English
Alternative forms
- þumb
Noun
thumb (plural thumbes)
- Alternative form of þombe (“thumb”)
thumb From the web:
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