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▸ noun: (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
▸ noun: The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
▸ noun: The top sheet of a bed.
▸ noun: A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
▸ noun: A cover charge.
▸ noun: A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
▸ noun: (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
▸ noun: (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
▸ noun: (combinatorics, topology) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
▸ noun: (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
▸ noun: (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
▸ noun: (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
▸ noun: (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
▸ noun: (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
▸ noun: (dated) A swindler's confederate.
▸ noun: The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
▸ noun: In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
▸ noun: (construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
▸ adjective: Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
▸ adjective: (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
▸ verb: (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
▸ verb: (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
▸ verb: (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
▸ verb: (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
▸ verb: (intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
▸ verb: (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
▸ verb: (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
▸ verb: To deal with or include someone or something.
▸ verb: To be enough money for.
▸ verb: To supply with funds; to settle or pay the costs for; to foot the bill for.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
▸ verb: (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
▸ verb: (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
▸ verb: (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
▸ verb: To provide insurance coverage for.
▸ verb: To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
▸ verb: (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
▸ verb: To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
▸ verb: To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
▸ verb: (transitive, dated) To arrange plates, etc. on (a table) in preparation for a meal.
▸ verb: (sports) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
▸ verb: (transitive) To provide an alibi for (someone); to provide excuses or apologia for (someone); to carry water for someone.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: The River Cover, a river in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England, which joins the River Ure.
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duvet cover,
book cover,
pool cover,
car cover,
sofcover,
grill cover,
boat cover,
mattress cover,
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