Usually means: Protection or concealment from exposure.
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We found 83 dictionaries that define the word cover:

General (35 matching dictionaries)
  1. cover: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cover: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cover: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cover: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cover, cover: Wordnik
  7. cover: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cover, Cover, Cover: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. cover: Wiktionary
  10. cover: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cover: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cover: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. cover: Dictionary.com
  14. cover: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. cover: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Cover (Joan as Policewoman album), Cover (Tom Verlaine album), Cover (algebra), Cover (cricket), Cover (film), Cover (finance), Cover (law), Cover (mathematics), Cover (military), Cover (music), Cover (philately), Cover (surname), Cover (telecommunications), Cover (topology), Cover, The Cover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Cover: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. cover: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. cover: Rhymezone
  20. cover: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. cover: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. cover: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Cover: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. cover: Free Dictionary
  25. cover: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Cover, cover: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. cover, cover (military): Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. cover: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  5. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  7. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. cover: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. cover: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Cover: bizterms.net
  7. Cover: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Cover: Harvey Financial
  10. Cover: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  11. Cover: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  12. cover: Finance-Glossary.com
  13. Cover: Investopedia
  14. Cover (intelligence), cover: Legal dictionary
  15. cover: Financial dictionary
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  17. Cover: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cover (topology), cover: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. cover: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CoVer: Acronym Finder
  2. cover: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cover: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. cover, cover, cover: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cover, cover: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cover: The Folk File

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  4. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  5. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  7. COVER: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  8. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  10. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Cover: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See coverable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A lid.
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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