different between mantle vs veneer
mantle
English
Etymology
From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantil, from Proto-Germanic *mantilaz (“mantle”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, from Latin mant?llum (“covering, cloak”), diminutive of mantum (French manteau, Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mæn.t?l/
- Rhymes: -ænt?l
- Homophone: mantel
Noun
mantle (plural mantles)
- A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.) [from 9th c.]
- (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
- At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
- The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
- (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak. [from 9th c.]
- (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted. [from 15th c.]
- 1990, Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals, page 71:
- He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle.
- 1990, Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals, page 71:
- (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
- The zone of hot gases around a flame.
- A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) [from 19th c.]
- The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
- A penstock for a water wheel.
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
- (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust. [from 20th c.]
- A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel
- (heraldry) A mantling.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
mantle (third-person singular simple present mantles, present participle mantling, simple past and past participle mantled)
- (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
- 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I
- As the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness; so their rising senses Begin to chace the ign'rant fumes, that mantle Their clearer reason.
- 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I
- I left them I' th' filthy mantled pool beyond your cell, There dancing up to th' chins.
- 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I
- (intransitive) To become covered or concealed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
- The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
References
Further reading
- Gas mantle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mantle (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- mantle (mollusc) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Lament., lament, manlet, mantel, mental
mantle From the web:
- what mantle made of
- what mantle means
- what mantle convection
- what mantle and give its function
- what mantle drag
- what mantle is crust
- french mantel
- what mantle cavity
veneer
English
Etymology
From German Furnier, from furnieren (“to inlay, cover with a veneer”), from French fournir (“to furnish, accomplish”), from Middle French fornir, from Old French fornir, furnir (“to furnish”), from Old Frankish frumjan (“to provide”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjan? (“to further, promote”). Cognate with Old High German frumjan, frummen (“to accomplish, execute, provide”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at furnish.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /v??ni?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): [v??ni???]
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
veneer (countable and uncountable, plural veneers)
- A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.
- An attractive appearance that covers or disguises true nature or feelings.
- 2014 December 5, "Joy From the World," The New York Times Magazine (retrieved 6 December 2014):
- “Yalda,” Dabashi says, “has managed to survive the centuries because it has been gently recodified with a Muslim veneer.”
- 2014 December 5, "Joy From the World," The New York Times Magazine (retrieved 6 December 2014):
Derived terms
- brick veneer
Translations
Verb
veneer (third-person singular simple present veneers, present participle veneering, simple past and past participle veneered)
- (transitive, woodworking) To apply veneer to.
- (transitive, figuratively) To disguise with apparent goodness.
Translations
Anagrams
- Vereen, enerve, evener
veneer From the web:
- what veneers
- what veneers are the best
- what veneers do
- what veneer means
- what veneers look like
- what veneers last the longest
- what veneers do to your teeth
- what veneers made of
you may also like
- mantle vs veneer
- word vs mention
- mandatory vs slave
- representative vs backer
- meet vs accomplished
- frostbitten vs wintry
- guaranteed vs indisputable
- chilling vs cool
- intractable vs headstrong
- joyfulness vs jollity
- destroy vs rot
- index vs order
- perception vs instruction
- inexorable vs unpacifiable
- fearful vs tigerish
- clandestine vs baffling
- reward vs cost
- stratum vs slab
- perilous vs unstable
- inappropriate vs queer