(n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
(n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
(n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
(n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
(n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.
(n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
(n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
(n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
(n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
(v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.
(v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The underlying pathology was shrouded by incomplete abortion.
(2) It introduces a welcome trenchancy into subjects often shrouded in misty rhetoric.
(3) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
(4) Its lines soften, its edges fade; it shrinks into the raw cold from the river, more like a shrouded mountain than a castle built for kings.
(5) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
(6) The same intrepid, almost naive, fascination with a world shrouded in the icy fog of snobbery, deference, and class-consciousness animated Sampson.
(7) Tehran, surrounded by mountains and with millions of cars on its congested streets, has long been regarded as one of the world's most polluted cities, but the heavy smog that has recently shrouded its streets has been described as the worst in its history.
(8) "But the fact is that the whereabouts and fate of Gao have been shrouded in mystery by the Chinese government for far too long.
(9) Monarchy, of whatever stamp, shrouds society in class, when we can least afford it.
(10) See the bullet holes in street lamps... the shrouded vision in the clouds and the fog of the buildings from which the shots came... the photographs of those who lost their lives.. the people who put themselves on the line for the future of Ukraine.” Kerry said he spoke spontaneously with Ukrainians gathered there, who pleaded with him not to go back to life as it was under Yanukovych.
(11) We hope that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will finally decide to comply with the law, and cease attempting to shroud in secrecy one aspect of their job that, above all others, should be conducted in the light of day."
(12) It sits amid north Glasgow’s famous Red Road tower blocks, shrouded and still awaiting demolition since organisers had second thoughts about blowing them up to mark the Commonwealth Games.
(13) Prolonged exposures of fracture faces under the protection of liquid nitrogen-cooled shrouds have shown that, because of the consequent drastic reduction of condensable gases in the specimen area, no detectable condensation contamination of exposed fracture faces occurs within 15 min at a specimen temperature of 108 degrees K. This shows that a complicated ultrahigh vacuum technology is not required for high resolution freeze- etching.
(14) How many other "invisible" stories are out there, shrouded by thick legal mist?
(15) As usual, the government applied the OSB media strategy to shroud the matters in secrecy.
(16) "Those are dead people in front of our house and the smell is awful," called out a woman from the balcony, her face shrouded in cloth to protect her from the stench.
(17) If this is how it behaves in the middle of one of Australia’s biggest cities, how does it conduct itself when shrouded behind the secrecy of “on water operations”?
(18) On these days, the smog clings to the city like a thick grey shroud, and its residents are ghost-like shadows moving through the haze.
(19) Consider an example from June of last year, when rampant fires across parts of Sumatra, Indonesia, shrouded the skies of Sumatra and neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia in a thick, choking haze.
(20) What happened next has always been shrouded in mystery.
Veil
Definition:
(n.) Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.
(n.) A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
(n.) The calyptra of mosses.
(n.) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
(n.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
(n.) Same as Velum, 3.
(n.) To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.
(n.) Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
Example Sentences:
(1) He argued that it was vital that we “should give the people of this country a chance to decide”, and that “[the nation was witnessing] a continuation of that old and disastrous system where a few men in charge of the state, wielding the whole force of the state, make secret engagements and secret arrangements, carefully veiled from the knowledge of the people…” This, and a lot more little-known information on the road to the first world war is given in Douglas Newton’s book The Darkest Days .
(2) Isis cannot just be contained – it must be defeated,” Clinton began, in veiled criticism of Barack Obama’s claim just before the attacks that Isis was contained in Syria and Iraq.
(3) The surface antigens of veiled cells (VC) isolated from the thoracic duct of mesenteric lymphadenectomized (MLNX) mice have been analyzed by means of monoclonal antibodies and compared with those of dendritic cells (DC) from the spleen, lymph node dendritic cells (LNDC) and peritoneal macrophages (PMO).
(4) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
(5) Gas will be a very economic option [for decades] unless there are new government policies and new fiscal measures to change the balance.” Birol issued a veiled warning to Trump that policy should be based on the realities of the energy sector: “We give the same advice to all leaders across the world: making decisions about the energy sector needs good information and an overview of developments, including technological improvements.
(6) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
(7) In studies involving nearly intact animal preparations, neurons were identified which control specific movements of the dorsal cerata, the oral veil tentacles, and the margins of the foot.
(8) An investigation by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem concluded that while she did have a knife under her niqab veil she posed no threat to soldiers at the time she was shot and could have been subdued without being fatally wounded.
(9) The Liberal Democrat culture spokesman, Don Foster, added: "The veil must be lifted even further so that the public can judge whether they are getting good value for money."
(10) The ruling followed calls by the Home Office minister, Jeremy Browne, for a national debate on whether the state should step in to prevent young women having the veil imposed upon them.
(11) These features included cell flattening with the formation of thin, veil-like structures into the eroded area by cells at the edges of the erosions.
(12) • Apple has been able to draw a secrecy veil over its Irish operations by making extensive use of unlimited companies, which are not required to file company accounts.
(13) He was told to wait his turn then, and the political establishment has again told him to wait to run for president out of deference to party elders, Rubio recalls in a thinly veiled reference to Bush.
(14) But in a veiled reference to those in the Conservative party and their backers in the rightwing press pushing for a hard Brexit, he implied that there were people in the UK who still had to catch up.
(15) For many of his generation, the growing of long beards and women wearing face veils is as much a sign of a higher economic status achieved from working abroad as piety.
(16) In his speech in London, Garcia called for a culture change among Fifa’s leadership and called for an end to the prevailing veil of secrecy at the Zurich-based governing body.
(17) "I really believe in a society where if someone wants to walk in the street completely naked they will be able to, and if someone wants to wear a veil they will also be able to."
(18) But most of them were the first members of their family to adopt the veil, the majority had no niqab-wearing peers, their attendance at their mosque was minimal, and their affiliation to any Islamic bodies almost nonexistent.
(19) That solace, however, is hard to sustain when a new veil of secrecy is about to be thrown over another element of state power.
(20) At a “victory party” for Clinton supporters, under the veil of a glass ceiling that was meant to be an epic symbol of a historic night when gender barriers were swept aside, there was a bleak mood.