Word Finder - covering

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To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

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He covered the baby with a blanket.

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To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

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The blanket covered the baby.

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To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

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Regular hexagons can cover the plane.

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To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

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You can cover the plane with regular hexagons.

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To put on one's hat.

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To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).

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The heroic soldier covered himself with glory.

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(of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.

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The magazine covers such diverse topics as politics, news from the world of science, and the economy.

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To deal with or include someone or something.

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To be enough money for.

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Ten dollars should cover lunch.

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To act as a replacement.

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I need to take off Tuesday. Can you cover for me?

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To have as an assignment or responsibility.

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Can you cover the morning shift tomorrow? I'll give you off next Monday instead.

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To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).

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(law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.

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To provide insurance coverage for.

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Does my policy cover accidental loss?

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To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).

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I would like to have my bitch covered next spring.

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• impregnate

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To protect or control (a piece or square).

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In order to checkmate a king on the side of the board, the five squares adjacent to the king must all be covered.

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To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

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To defend a particular player or area.

She turned away, covering her face, and began to cry.

Lydia, I want no part of covering up a crime.

In our climate, in the summer, it was formerly almost solely a covering at night.

Go, go, she... is calling... and weeping like a child and quickly shuffling on his feeble legs to a chair, he almost fell into it, covering his face with his hands.

He could picture the vampire-shrouded traveler pushing his grocery cart, happy to have the extra covering on this mountain morning.

He sat on the floor, hands covering his face, while Dusty stood.

He soon found a warm corner, and there he lay down, covering himself with the straw.

Please. I have a covering for you as soon as I'm certain you bear me no ill will.

Her face grew hot under his scrutiny, and she was grateful for the face paint covering her blush.

His face was more handsome than she remembered, more rugged with a two days' growth covering his neck and jaw.

Carmen gasped, covering her mouth with both hands.

Gerry was covering up a laugh while Toni appeared startled.

Like two guys hanging out who thought it was normal to have bones in the bathroom and blood covering the spare bedroom.

Sasha turned to face him, covering his surprise with a smile that made Jade.s skin crawl.

She laughed aloud at his reaction, a little too loudly, quickly covering her mouth as other diners glanced her way.

She conveyed the information to son Randy, told him she loved him and, after ending the conversation, flopped back down on the bed, again covering her head, this time with a pillow.

We've done a damned good job covering our tracks—painting the Scranton Apartment, swip­ing motel receipts with Byrne's signature on them....

A mixed forest of deciduous and conifer trees formed a dense covering of mottled greens.

She didn't even feel the bruises and scrapes covering her body, but she felt Darian's scorching fingers.

Covering her face with shaking hands, she sobbed her heart out.

She was normally good at covering emotions she didn't want to display, but he read them all and threw them back in her face.

The stone cliffs that walled the road on the opposite side wept icicles from every crevice, covering the surface in massive clusters of crystal spikes that sparkled in the dazzling sunlight.

When Dean rushed to the kitchen, he found Cynthia, her hands to her face, in tears, grease covering the floor.

Cynthia Byrne's breasts stood firm against the lacy fabric covering them and he draped a towel across her chest as he strug­gled to unhook her bra from beneath her comatose body.

He described it as barren and sterile, and almost devoid of animals, the only one of any importance somewhat resembling a raccoon - a strange creature, which advanced by great bounds or leaps instead of walking, using only its hind legs, and covering 12 or 15 ft.

It is officially termed the Preanger Regencies, of which there are five, covering the several administrative divisions.

Gutta-percha-covered copper wires were formerly largely used for the purpose of underground lines, the copper conductor weighing 40 lb per statute mile, and the gutta-percha covering 50 lb (90 lb total).

The paper cables consist of a number of wires, each enveloped in a loose covering of well-dried paper, and loosely laid up together with a slight spiral " lay " in a bundle, the whole being enclosed in a stout lead pipe.

It is essential that the paper covering be loose, so as to ensure that each wire is enclosed in a coating not of paper only, but also of air; the wires in fact are really insulated from each other by the dry air, the loose paper acting merely as a separator to prevent them from coming into contact.

Theoretically for a given outside diameter of core the greatest speed of signalling through a cable is obtained when the diameter of the conductor is 606 (1/,/e) the diameter of the core, but this ratio makes the thickness of the guttapercha covering insufficient for mechanical strength.

The insulation is again tested, and if no fault is discovered the served core is passed through the sheathing machine, and the iron sheath and the outer covering are laid on.

The separate wires are surrounded only with a loose covering of specially prepared paper, which furnishes abundant insulation.

The long hair is shorn every summer, and woven into a variety of stuffs used by the Arab for clothing himself and his family, and covering his tent.

A fur- ‘ - ther peculiarity of this type of colony is that theentire coenosarcal complex is covered externally by a common layer of ectoderm; it is not clear how this covering layer is developed.

The ectoderm furnishes the general epithelial covering of the body, and the muscular tissue, nervous system and sense-organs.

The sense-cells form, in the first place, a diffuse system of scattered sensory cells, as in the polyp, developed chiefly on the manubrium, the tentacles and the margin of the umbrella, where they form a sensory ciliated epithelium covering the nerve-centres; in the second place, the sense-cells are concentrated to form definite sense-organs, situated always at the margin of the umbrella, hence often termed " marginal bodies."

Those organisms which possess the latter are a little higher in the scale of life than those which remain unclothed by it, but a comparison of the behaviour of the two quickly enables us to say that the membrane is of but secondary importance, and that for those which possess it, it is nothing more than a protective covering for the living substance.

Investigations carried out by Blackman, and by Brown and Escombe, have shown clearly that the view put forward by Boussingault, that such absorption of gases takes place through the cuticular covering of the younger parts of the plant, is erroneous and can no longer be supported.

Such phenomena are nut uncommon in towns, where trees with their roots under pavement or other impervious covering do well for a time, but suddenly fail to supply the crown sufficiently with water during some hot summer.

Lithophytes.These are plants which grow on true rock, it not on the loose soil covering rock, even though this may W

This change is due partly to the migrations of plants, but chiefly to a transformation of the plants covering the earth.

From the Lousberg and the Salvatorberg to the north, the latter crowned by a chapel, magnificent views of the city are obtained; while covering the hills 2 m.

Di Giorgio's force and the rest of the covering troops of the II.

They are very thin-walled membranes, very poor in blood-vessels, formed by the bulged-out pleural or peritoneal covering of the lungs, through the parabronchial tubes of which they are filled with air.

The ore is kindled from above and the fire so regulated (by making or unmaking air-holes in the covering) that, by the heat produced References.

Indianapolis is the principal live stock centre of the Ohio Valley, and has extensive stock-yards covering more than loo acres.

In many beetles the hindwings are reduced to mere vestiges useless for flight, or are altogether absent, and in such cases the two elytra are often fused together at the suture; thus organs originally intended for flight have been transformed into an armour-like covering for the beetle's hind-body.

Russia they form the floor upon which lies a thin covering of Tertiary beds, and they are exposed to view in the valleys of the Dnieper and the Bug.

The gondola or flat car corresponds to the European open wagons and is used to carry goods not liable to be injured by the weather; but in the United States the practice of covering the load with tarpaulins is unknown, and therefore the proportion of box cars is much greater than in Europe.

The corpse may be burnt, in part or as a whole; portions may be assigned to the priest, the sacrificer and the gods; the skull, bones, &c., may receive special treatment; the fat or blood may be set aside, and they or the ashes may be singled out as the share of the god, to be offered upon the altar; the skin of the victim may be employed as a covering for the idol or material representative of the god, either permanently or till the next annual sacrifice.