'Covering' definitions:
Definition of 'covering'
From: WordNet
noun
A natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover" [syn: covering, natural covering, cover]
noun
An artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)
noun
The act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it; "the cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft" [syn: cover, covering, screening, masking]
noun
The act of protecting something by covering it
noun
The work of applying something; "the doctor prescribed a topical application of iodine"; "a complete bleach requires several applications"; "the surface was ready for a coating of paint"; [syn: application, coating, covering]
Definition of 'Covering'
From: GCIDE
- Cover \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. [1913 Webster]
- And with the majesty of darkness round Covers his throne. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- All that beauty than doth cover thee. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To invest (one's self with something); to bring upon (one's self); as, he covered himself with glory. [1913 Webster]
- The powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland. --Brougham. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the enemy were covered from our sight by the woods. [1913 Webster]
- A cloud covered the mount. --Exod. xxiv. 15. [1913 Webster]
- In vain shou striv'st to cover shame with shame. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To brood or sit on; to incubate. [1913 Webster]
- While the hen is covering her eggs, the male . . . diverts her with his songs. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To overwhelm; to spread over. [1913 Webster]
- The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen. --Ex. xiv. 28. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat. [1913 Webster]
- His calm and blameless life Does with substantial blessedness abound, And the soft wings of peace cover him round. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit. "Blessed is he whose is covered." --Ps. xxxii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 10. To put the usual covering or headdress on. [1913 Webster]
- Cover thy head . . .; nay, prithee, be covered. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 11. To copulate with (a female); to serve; as, a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male. [1913 Webster]
- To cover ground or To cover 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Covering'
From: GCIDE
- Covering \Cov"er*ing\, n. Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Noah removed the covering of the ark. --Gen. viii. 13. [1913 Webster]
- They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. --Job. xxiv. 7. [1913 Webster]
- A covering over the well's mouth. --2 Sam. xvii. 19. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'covering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- assimilating,
- bigness,
- blanket,
- blanketing,
- border,
- brooding,
- burial,
- burying,
- calcimining,
- circumference,
- cloak,
- cloaking,
- clouding,
- coat,
- coating,
- collop,
- comprising,
- concealedness,
- concealing,
- concealment,
- containing,
- cortex,
- counting,
- cover,
- coverage,
- covering up,
- covert,
- covertness,
- coverture,
- cowl,
- cowling,
- crust,
- curtain,
- curtaining,
- custodial,
- cut,
- darkening,
- deal,
- deception,
- defensive,
- disk,
- drape,
- drapery,
- embracing,
- enameling,
- encircling,
- enclosing,
- encompassing,
- envelope,
- enveloping,
- envisaging,
- epidermis,
- exterior,
- external,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- feuille,
- film,
- flap,
- foil,
- fold,
- fostering,
- fresco,
- fringe,
- front,
- gestation,
- gilding,
- glazing,
- glossing,
- gravidity,
- gravidness,
- greatness,
- guardian,
- guarding,
- guise,
- hanging,
- heaviness,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hood,
- housing,
- immunizing,
- including,
- inclusive,
- incorporating,
- incubation,
- integument,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- japanning,
- lamella,
- lamina,
- laminated glass,
- laminated wood,
- lap,
- leaf,
- lineaments,
- mantle,
- mask,
- masking,
- membrane,
- mystification,
- nonrevealing,
- numbering,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- obscuring,
- occultation,
- outer face,
- outer layer,
- outer side,
- outer skin,
- outline,
- outside,
- painting,
- pall,
- pane,
- panel,
- parental,
- patina,
- peel,
- pellicle,
- periphery,
- plait,
- plank,
- plate,
- plating,
- ply,
- plywood,
- pregnancy,
- preventive,
- priming,
- prophylactic,
- protecting,
- protective,
- putting away,
- rasher,
- rind,
- safeguarding,
- safety glass,
- screen,
- screening,
- scum,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- shading,
- sheathing,
- sheet,
- shell,
- shellacking,
- shelter,
- sheltering,
- shield,
- shielding,
- shroud,
- shrouding,
- sitting,
- skin,
- slab,
- slat,
- slice,
- staining,
- stippling,
- subterfuge,
- superficies,
- superstratum,
- surface,
- table,
- tablet,
- the family way,
- top,
- tutelary,
- uncommunicativeness,
- undercoating,
- undisclosing,
- unrevealing,
- varnishing,
- veil,
- veiling,
- veneer,
- vestment,
- vigilant,
- wafer,
- watchful,
- whitewashing,
- wrapping
Words containing 'Covering'
- Cover,
- Covered,
- Coverer,
- To cover into,
- Under cover,
- cover for,
- cover up,
- Cover crop,
- Covered way,
- Covering party,
- Covering scale,
- Gill cover,
- Re coverance,
- Table cover,
- To break cover,
- To cover distance,
- To cover ground,
- To draw a cover,
- air cover,
- bed cover,
- bed covering,
- body covering,
- cloth covering,
- cloud cover,
- cover charge,
- cover girl,
- cover glass,
- cover letter,
- cover plate,
- cover slip,
- cover song,
- cover story,
- cover version,
- cover-up,
- covered bridge,
- covered couch,
- covered option,
- covered smut,
- covered stadium,
- covered stand,
- covered wagon,
- covering fire,
- covering letter,
- covering material,
- covering of the eyes,
- dust cover,
- floor cover,
- floor covering,
- ground cover,
- head covering,
- lap covering,
- leg covering,
- lens cover,
- manhole cover,
- mattress cover,
- natural covering,
- protective cover,
- protective covering,
- record cover,
- short covering,
- soft cover,
- take cover,
- wing cover,
- Cover-point,
- Cover-shame,
- Yellow-covered,
- bone-covered,
- cloud-covered,
- dust-covered,
- grass-covered,
- ivy-covered,
- snow-covered,
- soft-cover,
- To cover one's short contracts,
- Yellow-covered literature,
- covered-eyed medusae,
- soft-cover book