(v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
(v. t.) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.
(a.) A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
(a.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roshan was the latest victim in what is widely seen as a covert war against the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.
(2) Subsequent studies have demonstrated covert face recognition using behavioural tasks.
(3) His reports alleged active, sustained and covert collusion to subvert the election which, if confirmed, could constitute treason.
(4) The bill, intended to increase and update intelligence agency powers, would create a new framework for covert operations involving conduct that would otherwise breach criminal law.
(5) Somehow, despite all this, the Obama administration thinks it can “destroy” Isis, though, as the Post noted , the US government has not been able to destroy al-Qaida or any terrorist group in the last decade “through two wars, thousands of drone strikes and hundreds of covert operations around the world.” The only question now is how far this Forever War against Isis goes.
(6) Boko Haram spies spread the rumour that she refused to covert from Christianity to Islam.
(7) In general, the two studies show that qualitative characteristics of completely covert generations influence their impact on estimates of the frequency of external events.
(8) The drug subculture, the addict's family, and a methadone clinic all covertly elicit and reinforce this transformation maintained by the myth that the addict's is "out of control".
(9) A series of experiments were conducted on three severe prosopagnosic patients in an attempt to understand better this phenomenon known as covert face recognition, the conditions for its occurrence, and its functional locus.
(10) "Instead of actually fighting a conventional war, western powers and their allies appear to be relying on covert war tactics to try to delay and degrade Iran's nuclear advancement," Theodore Karasik, a security expert at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis told Associated Press.
(11) The repurposing of the devices of unwitting users in foreign jurisdictions for covert attacks in the interests of one country’s national priorities is a dangerous precedent – contrary to international norms, and in violation of widespread domestic laws prohibiting the unauthorised use of computing and networked systems,” they conclude.
(12) Investigations mostly failed to show overt or covert face recognition, but NR performed at an above-chance level in selecting the familiar face on a task requiring a forced-choice between a familiar and an unfamiliar face.
(13) The covert self-evaluations were assumed to represent at internalization of early experiences of predominantly positive or negative social reinforcement from adult socializing agents.
(14) Richy Thompson, director of public affairs and policy at the British Humanist Association, welcomed the study, but said covert online access to abortion pills wasn’t enough.
(15) At the same time, by achieving a state of misery through following her mother's orders, she exposed her as ridiculous, and thus covertly discharged considerable aggression.
(16) Covert and overt depression was as frequent in the hysterectomized group as in the control group.
(17) The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said at Smith's tribunal that it believed some of the information held by the covert organisation and accessible to companies that subscribed to the service "could only have been supplied by the police or the security services".
(18) We now report that enhancement of calcium current in the peptidergic bag cell neurons of Aplysia by protein kinase C occurs through a different mechanism, the recruitment of a previously covert class of calcium channel.
(19) After all, the most basic freedom of all is the freedom to walk the streets unharmed and to sleep safe in our beds at night.” Parliament will soon debate the government’s first national security legislation bill to expand the powers of intelligence agencies and criminalise disclosure by any person of covert “special intelligence agencies”.
(20) It recommended that all radio communications taking place during undercover firearms operations should be recorded and covert armed response vehicles should be fitted with in-car data-recording systems.
Overgrown
Definition:
(p. p.) of Overgrow
Example Sentences:
(1) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
(2) The organism was readily recovered from the lesions except when overgrown by post mortem contaminants.
(3) Myelograms showed spinal stenosis as a result of atlanto-axial dislocation, or anterior extradural compression from overgrown cartilage and posteriorly dislocated tip of shortened odontoid process.
(4) At surgery, dense adhesions were found within the joint, the articular cartilage was overgrown with pannus extending out to the lateral patella, and there was extensive deformity of the femoral condyle and tibial plateau.
(5) Further investigations have shown that all three B. coagulans-strains, although originating from different sources, were overgrown by B. subtilis.
(6) One of only two artworks on display to feature any colour is Farewell, based on a picture she took of her father looking out from his study into his wild, overgrown back garden for the last time.
(7) After incubation at 22 degrees C for 14 days, the fruits and juices overgrown with mould were homogenized with ethyl acetate and subjected to thinlayer chromatography.
(8) The site of entry is not usually the wound, but the intestinal tract, which becomes overgrown by the yeasts as a consequence of the requisite therapy with antibacterial antibiotics in high dosage.
(9) With Estonia one of the most sparsely populated countries in the EU, the border is largely rural and in many places densely thicketed and overgrown.
(10) • It was a good early spring and early summer for many flowers as the dry weather meant they were not overgrown by vigorous grasses.
(11) The stents were overgrown with tracheal epithelium and, except for granuloma formation, elicited no complications.
(12) The tick has one generation per year and the adult female, which causes almost all paralysis, is abundant in spring and early summer and occurs most commonly in overgrown or regrowth country where bandicoots are abundant.
(13) Additionally, the body weight of children with undeveloped skeleton and muscles was close to the normal and it was due to overgrown fat tissue.
(14) After the growth hormone deficiency had been diagnosed and hormone substitute administered the dental age of the girl presented came closer to that of her age and sex-matched controls but did not reach the corresponding values even though the teeth were exposed by excising the overgrown gingiva.
(15) Ointments and oils can be overgrown only by highly specialized organisms but if there is condensed water as a film at boundary surfaces much more microorganism species can grow.
(16) It was also possible to identify Mycoplasma colonies overgrown by bacterial or fungal contaminants.
(17) The CsA responders had significantly more gingival units overgrown as compared with the Aza responders (P less than 0.005).
(18) Contrary to this, B-max was found to be significantly increased in the overgrown tissue sample compared to normal.
(19) The fibroblasts from normal and overgrown sites were studied in vitro.
(20) I never thought I would be calling for the day when men were men, but liberal democracy hasn’t done a very good job at stopping the overgrown tots, has it?