To place something upon or over, so as to protect or conceal.
To overlay or spread with something: cover potatoes with gravy.
To put a cover or covering on.
To wrap up; clothe.
To spread over the surface of: Dust covered the table. Snow covered the ground.
To extend over: a farm covering more than 100 acres.
To copulate with (a female). Used especially of horses.
To sit on in order to hatch.
To protect or shield from harm, loss, or danger.
To protect by insurance: took out a new policy that will cover all our camera equipment.
To compensate or make up for.
To have as one's territory or sphere of work.
To be responsible for reporting the details of (an event or situation): Two reporters covered the news story.
To guard (an opponent playing offense).
To defend (a position or area): cover third base; cover the backcourt.
To invest (oneself) with a great deal of something: covered themselves with glory.
To spread over the surface of: Dust covered the table. Snow covered the ground.
To extend over: a farm covering more than 100 acres.
To copulate with (a female). Used especially of horses.
To sit on in order to hatch.
To protect or shield from harm, loss, or danger.
To protect by insurance: took out a new policy that will cover all our camera equipment.
To compensate or make up for.
To have as one's territory or sphere of work.
To be responsible for reporting the details of (an event or situation): Two reporters covered the news story.
To guard (an opponent playing offense).
To defend (a position or area): cover third base; cover the backcourt.
To copulate with (a female). Used especially of horses.
To sit on in order to hatch.
To protect or shield from harm, loss, or danger.
To protect by insurance: took out a new policy that will cover all our camera equipment.
To compensate or make up for.
To have as one's territory or sphere of work.
To be responsible for reporting the details of (an event or situation): Two reporters covered the news story.
To guard (an opponent playing offense).
To defend (a position or area): cover third base; cover the backcourt.
To hide or screen from view or knowledge; conceal: covered up his misdemeanors.
To protect or shield from harm, loss, or danger.
To protect by insurance: took out a new policy that will cover all our camera equipment.
To compensate or make up for.
To have as one's territory or sphere of work.
To be responsible for reporting the details of (an event or situation): Two reporters covered the news story.
To guard (an opponent playing offense).
To defend (a position or area): cover third base; cover the backcourt.
To be sufficient to defray, meet, or offset the cost or charge of: had enough funds to cover her check.
To make provision for; take into account: The law does not cover all crimes.
To deal with; treat of: The book covers the feminist movement.
To travel or pass over; traverse: They covered 60 miles in two days.
To have as one's territory or sphere of work.
To be responsible for reporting the details of (an event or situation): Two reporters covered the news story.
To guard (an opponent playing offense).
To defend (a position or area): cover third base; cover the backcourt.
To hold within the range and aim of a weapon, such as a firearm.
To protect, as from enemy attack, by occupying a strategic position.
Sports
To guard (an opponent playing offense).
To defend (a position or area): cover third base; cover the backcourt.
To match (an opponent's stake) in a wager.
To purchase (stock that one has shorted).
Games To play a higher-ranking card than (the one previously played).
Music To record a cover version of (a song).
Obsolete To pardon or remit.
v.
intr.
To spread over a surface to protect or conceal something: a paint that covers well.
To act as a substitute or replacement during someone's absence: Her assistant covered for her.
To hide something in order to save someone from censure or punishment: cover up for a colleague.
Games To play a higher card than the one previously played.
n.
Something that covers or is laid, placed, or spread over or upon something else, as:
A lid or top.
A binding or enclosure for a book or magazine.
A bedcover.
A protective overlay, as for a mattress or furniture.
Something that provides shelter.
Strategic protection given by armed units during hostile action: The battleship approached the combat zone under a cover of fighter planes.
Something, such as vegetation, covering the surface of the ground.
Vegetation, such as underbrush, serving as protective concealment for wild animals.
Something, such as darkness, that screens, conceals, or disguises. See Synonyms at shelter.
A false background and identity, especially for a spy.
Something that provides shelter.
Strategic protection given by armed units during hostile action: The battleship approached the combat zone under a cover of fighter planes.
Something, such as vegetation, covering the surface of the ground.
Vegetation, such as underbrush, serving as protective concealment for wild animals.
Something, such as darkness, that screens, conceals, or disguises. See Synonyms at shelter.
A false background and identity, especially for a spy.
Something, such as vegetation, covering the surface of the ground.
Vegetation, such as underbrush, serving as protective concealment for wild animals.
Something, such as darkness, that screens, conceals, or disguises. See Synonyms at shelter.
A false background and identity, especially for a spy.
A layer of clouds obscuring the sky or ground.
Something, such as darkness, that screens, conceals, or disguises. See Synonyms at shelter.
A false background and identity, especially for a spy.
A table setting for one person: Covers were laid for ten.
A cover charge.
An envelope or wrapper for mail.
Funds sufficient to meet an obligation or secure against loss.
One who substitutes for another.
Music A cover version.
[Middle English coveren, from Old French covrir, from Latin cooperīre, to cover completely : co-, intensive pref.; see co- + operīre, to cover; see wer-4 in Indo-European roots.]
overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony" [ant: bare]
Cov"er\ (k?v"?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Covered (-?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Covering.] [OF. covrir, F. couvrir, fr. L. cooperire; co- + operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing in aperire to open. Cf. Aperient, Overt, Curfew.]1. To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throne. --Milton. All that beauty than doth cover thee. --Shak. 3. To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory. The powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland. --Brougham. 4. To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods. A cloud covered the mount. --Exod. xxiv. 15. In vain shou striv'st to cover shame with shame. --Milton. 5. To brood or sit on; to incubate. While the hen is covering her eggs, the male . . . diverts her with his songs. --Addison. 6. To overwhelm; to spread over. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen. --Ex. xiv. 28. 7. To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat. His calm and blameless life Does with substantial blessedness abound, And the soft wings of peace cover him round. --Cowley. 8. To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit. "Blessed is he whose is covered." --Ps. xxxii. 1. 9. 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. 10. To put the usual covering or headdress on. Cover thy head . . .; nay, prithee, be covered. --Shak. 11. To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male. To coverground or distance, to pass over; as, the rider covered the ground in an hour. To cover one's short contracts (Stock Exchange), to buy stock when the market rises, as a dealer who has sold short does in order to protect himself. Covering party (Mil.), a detachment of troops sent for the protection of another detachment, as of men working in the trenches. To cover into, to transfer to; as, to cover into the treasury. Syn: To shelter; screen; shield; hide; overspread.
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