shroud

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
5. One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
6. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
7. A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.

Verb

1. To cover with a shroud.
2. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
3. To take shelter or harbour.

Verb

To lop the branches from (a tree).

Sinonieme

cover

cerement

pall

veil

envelop

cloak

mantle

covering

wrap

winding-sheet

hide

screen

winding sheet

blanket

sheet

conceal

enshroud

enfold

cerecloth

camouflage

mask

😷

cover up

cap

clothe

burial cloth

wrap in a winding-sheet

enwrap

weather sheet

winding-clothes

dodge

disguise

casing

muffle

mainsheet

obscure

tack

cowling

carpet

buffet

coat

🧥

canopy

clout

graveclothes

clothing

block out

bathe

gather

grow over

hang over

furl

Vertalings

linceul

suaire

Leichentuch

sudario

mortaja

sudario

kefen

hauban

كفن

mortalha

amortajar

lijkwade

sindone

sartia

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ʃɹaʊd/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: shroud

Geërf van Old English: sċrūd

Verwante met Old Norse: skrúð

Verwante met Noors: skrud

Geërf van Middle English: schrouden

Verwante met Latyn: scrudāre

In summary

From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).