(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.
Tapis
Definition:
(n.) Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.
(v. t.) To cover or work with figures like tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(2) You need everything.” – Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol on the ‘typical African player’ “The intelligence I wanted to talk about was tactical intelligence.” – Sagnol clears things up “I want to buy your monkey with the square feet.” – What former Marseille president Bernard Tapie reportedly told then Auxerre coach Guy Roux before signing Basile Boli in 1990.
(3) The case dates back to 2008, when Lagarde, as Sarkozy's finance minister, ordered private arbitration in a long-running business dispute between Tapie and the French state.
(4) In the soap opera of French political eccentrics, few are as colourful and controversial as Tapie: a rags-to-riches businessman who began as a failed popstar and wannabe racing driver, hosted TV shows, became a minister under François Mitterrand, owned Olympique de Marseille football club but then served time in jail for match-fixing, and finally reinvented himself as actor and now press baron, recently buying the newspaper La Provence.
(5) Marseille were consumed by scandal after it emerged that the president, Bernard Tapie, had bribed three Valenciennes players to take it easy against his team in a league fixture at the end of the 1992-93 season.
(6) Although she is based in London, where she loves her "little garden", she and her long-time partner, the photographer Gilles Tapie, have been living a privileged nomadic existence for the past 17 years as they've followed the international trajectory of her career.
(7) Ini tidak hanya menyebabkan frekuensi banjir yang lebih sering, tapi juga berpotensi merusak saluran air bersih terpipa maupun sistem pembuangan air kotor.
(8) Tapie is a former Socialist minister and flamboyant business tycoon turned chatshow host who, as head of Olympique de Marseille football team, had served a prison sentence for match fixing.
(9) The then-socialist opposition claimed the arbitration process was rigged to reward Tapie for his support of Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election.
(10) Although only the Valenciennes match was proved to have been corrupt, Wenger had his suspicions about much of the Tapie era at Marseille and feared that his own players had been approached.
(11) Once Sarkozy was in office, Lagarde moved to stop the court action and instead authorised three judges to decide an out-of-court settlement that meant Tapie was awarded a massive €400m in compensation at the expense of the French taxpayer – over €280m of which he pocketed, after tax and costs.
(12) Lagarde said there was "nothing new under the sun" and she was ready to be heard in the case, involving businessman Bernard Tapie.
(13) Was there something that resonated with the money coming in – albeit legally – that reminded you of your experience in fighting the financial doping of Bernard Tapie’s Marseille when you were with Monaco?
(14) Tapie, a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, won the award in arbitration in 2008 to end a dispute with the government over his company's sale of Adidas.
(15) Tapie affair While Sarkozy was president, a complicated legal case involving businessman Bernard Tapie was sent by his government to arbitration, that eventually awarded Tapie €403 million.
(16) Tapie was later jailed and Marseille were stripped of the title they won that year.
(17) Dapat dimengerti bahwa kita sering kali menggantungkan harapan di pundak para politisi, tapi berharap politik akan dapat mengubah status quo secara mendasar hanyalah khayalan.
(18) The return might also have been significant for his long-standing assistant Boro Primorac, who was the Valenciennes coach in 1993 and who testified at Tapie's trial.
(19) It also attacked Lagarde’s reputation saying it was sullied by criminal allegations of negligence over €400m (£314m) of payments in the Bernard Tapie affair , dating back to when she was French finance minister.
(20) Investigators are examining whether the vast sum was deliberately rigged in favour of Tapie.