cover

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A lid.
2. (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
3. (countable, uncountable) The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
4. (countable, uncountable) The top sheet of a bed.
5. (countable, uncountable) A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
6. (countable, uncountable) A cover charge.
7. (countable, uncountable) A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
8. (countable, uncountable) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
9. (countable, uncountable) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
10. (countable, uncountable) A tarpaulin or other device used to cover the wicket during rain, to prevent it getting wet.
11. (countable, uncountable) The area of the stumps that is blocked by the batsman so as to defend the wicket.
12. (countable, uncountable) A backup incase any player sustains injury during nets or midseries. Originally have to be declared part of squad before match.
13. (countable, uncountable) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
14. (countable, uncountable) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
15. (countable, uncountable) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
16. (countable, uncountable) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
17. (countable, uncountable) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
18. (countable, uncountable) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
19. (countable, dated, uncountable) A swindler's confederate.
20. (countable, uncountable) The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
21. (countable, uncountable) In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
22. (countable, uncountable) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
2. (not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.

Verb

1. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
2. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
3. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
4. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
5. (dated, intransitive) To put on one's hat.
6. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
7. (transitive) To have under one’s scope or purview.
8. (transitive) To have under one’s scope or purview.
9. (transitive) To have under one’s scope or purview.
10. (transitive) To have under one’s scope or purview.
11. (transitive) To be enough money for.
12. (transitive) To supply with funds; to settle or pay the costs for; to foot the bill for.
13. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
14. (transitive) To air or run locally originated material in place of network material during an internal spot break in a syndicated program.
15. (transitive) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
16. (transitive) To protect, to guard.
17. (transitive) To protect, to guard.
18. (transitive) To protect, to guard.
19. (transitive) To protect, to guard.
20. (transitive) To protect, to guard.
21. (transitive) To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
22. (transitive) To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
23. (transitive) To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
24. (ambitransitive, dated) To arrange plates, etc. on (a table) in preparation for a meal.

Synonyms

lid

hide

screen

conceal

covering

envelop

veil

shelter

close

envelope

✉️

wrap

blanket

cap

top

🔝

coat

🧥

protect

overlay

cover up

shroud

shield

🛡️

put on

obscure

wrapper

shut

clothe

mask

😷

cloak

case

spread over

protection

shell

🐚

disguise

overspread

shade

enclose

sheath

back

🔙

encase

wrap up

include

spread

jacket

roof

bury

embrace

coverage

mantle

enshroud

block

surround

Translations

couvrir

cubrir

coprire

bedecken

couverture

cobrir

decken

coperchio

abdecken

Deckel

tapar

couvercle

cubierta

bedekken

cobrir

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkʌvɚ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: coveren

Cognate with French: couvrir

Cognate with Middle English: thecchen

Cognate with Old English: þeccan

Cognate with Middle English: helen

Cognate with Old English: helan

Cognate with Middle English: wreon

Cognate with Old English: wreon

Cognate with Middle English: hodren

Cognate with Low German: hudren

Cognate with Spanish: cubrir

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).

Sentences

But with her cover blown , she could never be undercover again .

These hairs , which disappear over time , cover dark brown to black bud scales .

Dave Thompson from AllMusic called her cover " lukewarm ".

The cover of volume five has several bunnies with their midsections replaced with springs .

In June , she participated in Operation Harpoon , providing air cover for the Malta-bound convoy .