shroud

Significat (Anglès)

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).

Conceptes

embolicar

amortallar

obenc

mortalla

Sinònims

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

Traduccions

linceul

suaire

Leichentuch

mortaja

sudario

sudario

kefen

hauban

كفن

mortalha

lijkwade

amortajar

sindone

sudário

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ʃɹaʊd/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: shroud

Heretat de anglès antic: sċrūd

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: skrúð

Cognat amb noruec: skrud

Heretat de anglès mitjà: schrouden

Cognat amb llatí: 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”)).