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Covering   /kˈəvərɪŋ/  /kˈəvrɪŋ/   Listen
Covering

noun
1.
A natural object that covers or envelops.  Synonyms: cover, natural covering.  "The fox was flushed from its cover"
2.
An artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it).
3.
The act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it.  Synonyms: cover, masking, screening.
4.
The act of protecting something by covering it.
5.
The work of applying something.  Synonyms: application, coating.  "A complete bleach requires several applications" , "The surface was ready for a coating of paint"


Cover

verb
(past & past part. covered; pres. part. covering)
1.
Provide with a covering or cause to be covered.  "Cover the child with a blanket" , "Cover the grave with flowers"
2.
Form a cover over.  Synonym: spread over.
3.
Span an interval of distance, space or time.  Synonyms: continue, extend.  "The period covered the turn of the century" , "My land extends over the hills on the horizon" , "This farm covers some 200 acres" , "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles"
4.
Provide for.
5.
Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.  Synonyms: address, deal, handle, plow, treat.  "The course covered all of Western Civilization" , "The new book treats the history of China"
6.
Include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory.  Synonyms: comprehend, embrace, encompass.  "This should cover everyone in the group"
7.
Travel across or pass over.  Synonyms: cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse.
8.
Be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism.  Synonym: report.  "The cub reporter covered New York City"
9.
Hold within range of an aimed firearm.
10.
To take an action to protect against future problems.
11.
Hide from view or knowledge.  Synonym: cover up.
12.
Protect or defend (a position in a game).
13.
Maintain a check on; especially by patrolling.
14.
Protect by insurance.  Synonyms: insure, underwrite.
15.
Make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities.  Synonyms: compensate, overcompensate.
16.
Invest with a large or excessive amount of something.
17.
Help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming his responsibilities.
18.
Be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of.
19.
Spread over a surface to conceal or protect.
20.
Cover as if with a shroud.  Synonyms: enshroud, hide, shroud.
21.
Copulate with a female, used especially of horses.  Synonym: breed.
22.
Put something on top of something else.  Synonym: overlay.
23.
Play a higher card than the one previously played.
24.
Be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game.
25.
Sit on (eggs).  Synonyms: brood, hatch, incubate.  "The female covers the eggs"
26.
Clothe, as if for protection from the elements.  Synonym: wrap up.



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"Covering" Quotes from Famous Books



... tent wherever he went. So we shall have the one abode, though its place in the desert may vary—and we shall not need to care whether the encampment be beneath the palm-trees and beside the wells of Elim, or amidst the drought of Marah, so long as the same covering protects us, and the same pillar ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... are not on the trail. Your trick in covering our tracks in case they found and followed the trail was successful. Are you sure they were pursuers? Perhaps they were hunters ...
— Frank Merriwell's Pursuit - How to Win • Burt L. Standish
... to the porch. The JANIG scout team had reported early in the morning that the pram was gone from the pier. They had been covering the Whiteside area most of the night, searching for some sign of the pair that had attacked Rick's friends, but had turned ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine
... were torn back. There lay the beloved friend and master dead. His head rested on his left hand, as if in tranquil sleep,—not the slightest trace of pain or suffering on his features. The soul, yearning for the dear objects of its love, had burst its earthly covering and fled. The immortal master was not ...
— Among the Great Masters of Music - Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians • Walter Rowlands
... brought about by the united action of the Crown and Parliament. Such had been the method of introducing changes under the three sovereigns, Henry, Mary, and Elizabeth. With this brief summary of the reform movements among the masses and in the universities covering the years until Cartwright, through the influence of the ritualistic church party, was expelled from Cambridge, and Robert Browne, as a student there, came under the strong Puritan influence of the university, we pass ...
— The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut • M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.


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