mantle

Meaning

Noun

1. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
2. (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
3. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
4. The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
5. The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
6. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
7. 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.)
8. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
9. A penstock for a water wheel.
10. The cerebral cortex.
11. The layer between Earth's core and crust.
12. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”).
13. A mantling.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
2. (intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
3. (intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
4. To climb over or onto something.
5. The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
6. The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.

Synonyms

cloak

cape

coat

🧥

cover

curtain

drape

blanket

shroud

pall

drapery

upper garment

veil

mantel

covering

robe

pallium

jacket

mantlepiece

casing

wrapper

bathe

gown

chimneypiece

envelope

✉️

conceal

shell

🐚

mask

😷

clothe

obscure

mantelpiece

dolman

disguise

choir

diaper

block out

crust

case

greatcoat

front

counter

carpet

blind

flush

flood

cortex

flash

filament

cornhusk

feathers

enwrap

Translations

manteau

🧥

Mantel

🧥

manto

mantel

jas

🧥

mantell

capa

mantellum

mantello

manto

capa

Umhang

capa

aparença

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmæn.təl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mantel

Inherited from Old English: mæntel

Cognate with French: manteau

Cognate with Spanish: manto

Cognate with Icelandic: möttull

In summary

From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantel; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantellum (“covering, cloak”) (French manteau), diminutive of mantum (Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull. Doublet of manteau.