cover
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Is cover a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.Examples: "The soldiers took cover behind a ruined building."uncountable
2. (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.countableuncountable
3. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.Examples: "The captain signalled his best fielder from short leg to cover."countableuncountable
4. (cricket) A tarpaulin or other device used to cover the wicket during rain, to prevent it getting wet.Examples: "The covers were put on just before lunch."countableuncountable
5. (cricket) The area of the stumps that is blocked by the batsman so as to defend the wicket.countableuncountable
6. (cricket) A backup incase any player sustains injury during nets or midseries. Originally have to be declared part of squad before match.Examples: "He was brought in as cover for wicketkeeper."countableuncountable
adj (English)
1. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.not-comparable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.Examples: "He covered the baby with a blanket."; "When the pot comes to a boil, cover it and reduce the heat to medium."Synonyms: burytransitive
2. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.Examples: "The blanket covered the baby."; "A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire."; "Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—[…]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies."transitive
3. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.Examples: "Regular hexagons can cover the plane."transitive
4. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.Examples: "You can cover the plane with regular hexagons."transitive
5. (intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.Examples: "All the while he held his hat in his hand; and even until he had given his answer, when he covered and bade us be."datedintransitive
6. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).Examples: "The heroic soldier covered himself with glory."; "the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland"transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary