Results for cover

Definition of cover:

• part of speech: (noun)

  Shelter; protection; anything that covers.

• part of speech: (noun)

  Anything laid or spread over something else; anything that veils or conceals; disguise; shelter; protection.

• part of speech: (verb)

  To overspread the surface or top of anything by another thing; to veil or conceal from view by some intervening object; to clothe; to shelter; to protect; to equal or be equivalent to.

• part of speech: (verb transitive)

  To spread over; hide; clothe; protect; suffice for.

Usage examples for cover:

“ Given a year to the subject, it is possible to do little more than cover plane geometry; with a year and a half the solid geometry ought easily to be covered also. ” The Teaching of Geometry, - David Eugene Smith.

“ He drew himself up from cover ” The Trespasser, - D.H. Lawrence.