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A lid.
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(uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
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The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
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The top sheet of a bed.
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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.
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A cover charge.
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A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
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(music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
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(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
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(cricket) A tarpaulin or other device used to cover the wicket during rain, to prevent it getting wet.
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(combinatorics, topology) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
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(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
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(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
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(law) 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.
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(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
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(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
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(dated) A swindler's confederate.
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The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
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In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
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(construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.