(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.
Subtile
Definition:
(a.) Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.
(a.) Characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning; delicate; refined; subtle.
(a.) Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme.
Example Sentences:
(1) After operative methods have been subtilized and radicalized only preventive medical examinations and early public instruction may improve the prognosis of the patients concerned.
(2) Accurate preoperative evaluation and subtile operative technique are imperative, however.
(3) More subtile effects of milk processing on milk digestibility and stomach emptying are mentioned.
(4) It was possible histologically to follow the most subtile alterations on the membranes from the very beginning of the chronic bronchitis.
(5) The present paper suggests the autometallographic demonstration of intralysosomal silver as a sensitive tool for the detection of subtile toxic effects in cell cultures, the method is suggested to primarily detect lysosomal damage.
(6) Fatty acids damage the membrane integrity in such a way that the subtile equilibrium between the factors is disturbed.
(7) The removal of the angioma requires the most subtile preparation.
(8) A microscopical examination of the Leptothrix-filaments revealed a subtile segmentation and sporulation.
(9) In the individual case, it is necessary to identify the major causes by employing subtile investigative measures, in order to be able to plan rational treatment.
(10) Inhibited subtilisin (Subtilism Carlsberg; Subtilopeptidase A) is unfolded in the presence of 7 M guanidine hydrochloride.
(11) There was concluded firstly that the possibility of metastases in the pelvic lymph nodes is dependent from the size of the primary tumor and secondly that before treatment a subtile diagnostic procedure secures that only good cases of cervical cancer FIGO stage I b are operated on by radical vaginal hysterectomy (Schauta-Amreich).
(12) The stereological investigations revealed a subtile reaction of the medial stapled tibial plate in a total of 37 domestic pigs (10 weeks old) during the postoperative follow-up (up to 17 weeks).
(13) Despite subtile changes of glucose, glucagon and to a lesser degree insulin levels which would be suggestive of insulin resistance, the data obtained from skeletal muscle argue against peripheral insulin resistance in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
(14) For the clarification of pathogenesis and clinical relevance of decreases of the triiodothyronine (T3) level in patients with chronic inflammatory rheumatism in a group of 63 patients with clinically, paraclinically and roentgenologically diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (59 times) and with SLE (4 times), respectively, parallel were determined parameters of the thyroid gland function and of the rheumatic activity as well as a subtile drug anamnesis for the medication of antirheumatic drugs was established.
(15) -- It has been refered to the importance of the exact conisation technique and subtile histotechnical obtaining of slides in step sections.
(16) A stable implantation of this biocompatible material is possible, if the primary attachment by means of special construction features and subtile operation technique is ensured.
(17) The measurement procedure was found to be very sensitive with respect to all fractions in evaluating the subtile differences between different lot numbers of the aerosol.
(18) The other highly vascular neoplasms show unspecific signs of vascular malignant tumors; subtile angiographic signs may, however, be present and help in the differential diagnosis.
(19) Subtile investigations in protein diagnostics are required for avoiding incomplete monoclonal immunoglobulins which may greatly enter the kidneys to be overlooked.
(20) When photographs taken at diastolic and systolic culminations were compared, with the haploscope, when stereoscopically seen, they clearly showed the subtile deformation of the vessels under a stereoscopic effect.