Word Finder - cover

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A lid.

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Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.

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The soldiers took cover behind a ruined building.

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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, usually fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa to protect it from dust, rain, etc. when not in use.

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A cover charge.

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There's a $15 cover tonight.

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A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.

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We need to set another cover for the Smith party.

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A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.

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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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A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.

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The open intervals are a cover for the real numbers.

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An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.

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A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.

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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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An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.

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A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.

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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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The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.

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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.

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Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.

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Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.

She crossed her arms, forcing herself not to cover her neck as four sets of eyes landed there.

Cora coughed to cover up her laugh.

A black cloud seemed to cover the earth.

Why do you want to cover yourself so much?

Martha made no move to cover herself.

She did not know and would not have believed it, but beneath the layer of slime that covered her soul and seemed to her impenetrable, delicate young shoots of grass were already sprouting, which taking root would so cover with their living verdure the grief that weighed her down that it would soon no longer be seen or noticed.

Why did he try so hard to cover his feelings?

If that were the case, why did someone try so hard to cover up his identity?

Maybe they managed to cover it up.

Maybe Sarah was making up a story to cover up for Yancey.

The scent of burnt metal and flesh soon followed, then chaos as Elise and Dan moved away from her, each going in the opposite direction under the cover of smoke.

When you're riding an ATV you can cover more territory, and the animals have grown used to the sound of them.

The hunt reached a higher level of journalism when Betsy showed us a magazine cover story on the subject.

The women looked frightened, Faust actually ducked, and David Dean moved to the cover of a nearby boulder, pulling his wife along with him.

A soft moan sounding nothing like her reached his ears, and then slowly, out from under the cover, emerged a huge wolf with bronze colored fur.

Someone has to cover the calls.

Brady's scouts reported nothing, and they emerged from the cover of nearby buildings.

He would pollinate a wheat stalk, then cover it with a trash bag to prevent contamination by other plants.

Tammy and Sarah were in the kitchen when she returned, and Tammy was standing in a chair ripping the cover off some chocolate chip cookies.

It had a bright blue cover, which he was careful not to soil.

They said that a gentleman farmer, who was behind the scenes, wanted to double his money, which, as I understood, amounted to half a million already; but in order to cover each one of his dollars with another, he took off the only coat, ay, the skin itself, of Walden Pond in the midst of a hard winter.

You don't need to cover your eyes.

The name Varuna may be Indo-European, identifiable, some believe, with the Greek ofpavos (Uranus), and ultimately referable to a root var, " to cover," Varuna thus meaning "the Encompasser."

The clays of the Rolling Downs formation overlie a series of sands and drifts, saturated with water under high pressure, which discharges at the surface as a flowing well, when a borehole pierces the impermeable cover.

The rose gardens cover several square miles.

Forests cover nearly 15% of the total area.

Grasses representing several species also cover most of the Great Plains, the uplands in the southern portion of the Coastal Plain, and the treeless portions of the Prairie Plains and the Trans-Pecos region.

The danger was that under cover of such a title an unhistorical conception of the facts of the Gospel should grow up, and a false doctrine of the relations between the human and the Divine be encouraged, and this was to Nestorius a double danger that needed to be exposed.

As, however, the wavelength necessary to cover any considerable distance must be at least 200 or 300 ft., it becomes impracticable to employ mirrors for reflection.

But in the 19th century and after exploring work was so generally and steadily maintained in all directions, and was in so many cases narrowed down from long journeys to detailed surveys within relatively small areas, that i t becomes desirable to cover the whole period at one view for certain great divisions of the world.

The monuments discovered there, although only those in hard stone have survived, are more important than at any other site in the Delta except Tanis and cover a wider range, commencing with Khufu (Cheops) and continuing to the thirtieth dynasty.

Migne's texts are not always satisfactory, but since the completion of his great undertaking two important collections have been begun on critical lines - the Vienna edition of the Latin Church writers,' and the Berlin edition of the Greek writers of the ante-Nicene period .8 For English readers there are three series of translations from the fathers, which cover much of the ground; the Oxford Library of the Fathers, the Ante Nicene Christian Library and the Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.

They cover an area of 10 acres, are laid out in terraces, and illustrate Italian, Dutch and French styles.

The Devonian dolomites, limestones and red sandstones cover immense tracts and appear on the surface over a much wider area.

Owing to the great risks from fire the villages usually cover a large area of ground, and the houses are scattered and straggling.

The complete suppression of these small moribund states and the creation of the autocratic tsardom of Muscovy were the work of Ivan III., surnamed the Great, his son Basil and his grandson Ivan IV., commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, whose united reigns cover a period of 122 years (1462-1584).

In time it became a common practice to cover them with a thin sheathing or plating of iron, in order to add to their life; this expedient caused more wear on the wooden rollers of the wagons, and, apparently towards the middle of the 18th century, led to the introduction of iron wheels, the use of which is recorded on a wooden railway near Bath in 1734.

By this definition the term sacrifice is extended to cover the inanimate offering which is consumed by fire, broken or otherwise rendered useless for the purpose of human life.

When the narratives describe the life of the young David at the court of the first king of the northern kingdom, when the scenes cover the district which he took with the sword, and when the brave Saul is represented in an unfavourable light, one must allow for the popular tendency to idealize great figures, and for the Judaean origin of the compilation.

The ancient historians, who together cover this period, are strangely indifferent to the importance of the Jews, upon which Josephus is at pains to insist.

Under cover of a storm, they opened the city-gates to their allies and proceeded to murder Ananus the high priest, and, against the verdict of a formal tribunal, Zacharias the son of Baruch in the midst of the Temple.

It seems possible even that the ancient tradition which recorded an earlier or later king of the name of Minos may, as suggested above, cover a dynastic title.

The tributaries of the Rio Doce cover the slopes of the Serra do Espinhago for a distance north and south of about 200 m.

Prickly forms of Statice and Astragalus cover the dry hills.

Huxley gave it as his opinion that it was sufficient to cover the whole cost of the war indemnity paid by France to Germany in 1870.

He recommends the practice of setting up corn in shocks, with two sheaves to cover eight, instead of ten sheaves as at present - probably owing to the straw being then shorter.

The estimated loss by the vine Phylloxera in the Gironde alone was £32,000,000; for all the French wine districts £IOO,000,000 would not cover the damage.

When young its spreading boughs form good cover for game.

C. Smith's Spring Tour in Portugal s to be named, and these only partially cover the ground.

The wild boar is still found in Europe, in marshy woodland districts where there is plenty of cover, and it is fairly plentiful in Spain, Austria, Russia and Germany, particularly in the Black Forest.