different between dissemble vs cloak

English

Etymology

From Latin dissimulare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d??s?mb??]

Verb

dissemble (third-person singular simple present dissembles, present participle dissembling, simple past and past participle dissembled)

1. (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
   • 1788, John Philip Kemble, The Panel

     Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.

2. (transitive) To feign.
   • 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

     And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,

     Or sleep-dissembling, while he waits his prey.

   • May 16, 1710, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 172

     He soon dissembled a sleep.

3. (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
4. (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
   • XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia; from Boccace

     While to his arms the blushing bride he took,

     To seeming sadness she composed her look;

     As if by force subjected to his will,

     Though pleased, dissembling, and a woman still.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with disassemble (take apart).

Synonyms

• (to pretend not to notice): disregard, take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• cloke (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos-, ultimately imitative.

Doublet of clock.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

cloak (plural cloaks)

1. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
2. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

3. (figuratively)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.

   No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.

4. (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

Derived terms

• cloak and dagger

Translations

See also

• burnoose, burnous, burnouse
• domino costume

Verb

cloak (third-person singular simple present cloaks, present participle cloaking, simple past and past participle cloaked)

1. (transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, hide or conceal.
3. (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.

   The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

Derived terms

• cloaking device

Translations