(v. t.) To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
(v. t.) To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak.
(v. t.) To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory.
(v. t.) To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods.
(v. t.) To brood or sit on; to incubate.
(v. t.) To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat.
(v. t.) To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit.
(v. t.) To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.
(v. t.) To put the usual covering or headdress on.
(v. t.) To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male.
(n.) Anything which is laid, set, or spread, upon, about, or over, another thing; an envelope; a lid; as, the cover of a book.
(n.) Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak.
(n.) Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover.
(n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.
(n.) The lap of a slide valve.
(n.) A tablecloth, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests.
(v. i.) To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(3) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
(4) Five patients have been examined by defecography before and four after closure of a loop ileostomy performed to cover healing of the pouch and ileoanal anastomoses.
(5) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(6) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(7) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(8) The degree of infection and incidence of different genera covering the same period were identical in both series.
(9) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(10) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(11) As to complications they recorded in one case mucosal bleeding after gastrofiberoptic polypectomy and in one case a covered perforation of the sigmoid at the site of colonoscopic polypectomy.
(12) The pressure is ramping up on Asda boss Andy Clarke, who next week will reveal the chain’s sales performance for the quarter covering Christmas.
(13) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
(14) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(15) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(16) This hydrostatic pressure may well be the driving force for creating channels for acid and pepsin to cross the mucus layer covering the mucosal surface.
(17) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
(18) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(19) The study covered 500 children from Warsaw's primary schools--250 children aged 6-8 years and 250 aged 13-15 years.
(20) The smaller interfaces cover about 700 A2 of the subunit surface.
Fur
Definition:
(n.) The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
(n.) The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.
(n.) Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
(n.) Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).
(n.) Any coating considered as resembling fur
(n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
(n.) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
(n.) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
(n.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
(a.) Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.
(v. t.) To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.
(v. t.) To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
(v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
(2) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(3) The capacity (Bmax) for [3H]ketanserin binding was significantly lower (-21%; p less than 0.05) in sparse fur animals than in control animals; there was no change in affinity (KD).
(4) The fusion was prepared in multicopy (pVLN102 plasmid) and low-copy-number states, the latter constructed as a lambda phage lysogen carrying a fur'-'lacZ insert.
(5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(6) The responsible allergens are contained in the urine, saliva, and secretions of furred animals.
(7) And I have come to tell you this: the trends for this coming season will be extremely expensive furs, very high-heeled shoes and full-length ballgowns.
(8) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(9) He was fined £800 and ordered to pay £3,500 costs by the Furness and District Magistrate court after being prosecuted by the CAA.
(10) The Fur protein was isolated in a single step by immobilized metal-ion-affinity chromatography over zinc iminodiacetate agarose.
(11) If that effect existed in small animals, they would lose less heat if nude than if fur or feathers were present.
(12) Regulation by iron occurs at the transcriptional level and is mediated by a ferrous iron binding protein designated Fur (ferric uptake regulation).
(13) Instrumental neutron activation analysis has been used for an initial evaluation of trace element content in samples of northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) from the Pribilof Islands.
(14) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(15) The results show that transcription of the fur gene is initiated from at least two different sites separated by 6 bp, which appear to originate from two overlapping promoters sensitive to catabolic activation.
(16) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(17) Thus, the pattern of sensory innervation in the glabrous rat snout skin is similar to that found in other furred species described to date, but in addition, the sensory innervation of ridged skin in the rat also resembles that of epidermis organized into rete pegs.
(18) 5-Fluorouridine (100 microM, 26 micrograms ml-1) inhibited contraction of human fibroblasts by more than 80%, whereas only 10 microM (2.6 micrograms ml-1) 5-FUR was required for 90% inhibition of rabbit fibroblast contraction.
(19) In contrast, after weaning they showed a significant increment in the duration of face-washing, head-washing, fur licking and body-scratching.
(20) The other was David York, branch secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and an organiser of the anti-academy protest in Barrow-in-Furness.