Synonyms of the word

mantle

• n. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare…
• n. (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
• n. (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
• n. (zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
• n. (zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
• n. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
• n. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns,…
• n. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
• n. A penstock for a water wheel.
• n. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
• n. (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
• n. A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel.
• n. (heraldry) A mantling.
• v. (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
• v. (intransitive) To become covered or concealed.
• v. (of face, cheeks) To flush.

ballplayer

• n. A player of a ball game; especially a basketball, baseball, or football player.

blanket

• n. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
• n. A layer of anything.
• n. A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being…
• n. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
• adj. In general; covering or encompassing everything.
• v. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
• v. (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
• v. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
• v. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

blind

• adj. (not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
• adj. (not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
• adj. (comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
• adj. (not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.
• adj. (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end.
• adj. (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage.
• adj. smallest or slightest in phrases such as.
• adj. (not comparable) without any prior knowledge.
• adj. (not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating…
• adj. Unintelligible or illegible.
• adj. (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
• n. A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can…
• n. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name…
• n. Any device intended to conceal or hide.
• n. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
• n. (military) A blindage.
• n. A halting place.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
• n. (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
• n. (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
• n. (uncountable) Those who are blind, taken as a group.
• v. (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
• v. (slang, obsolete) To curse.
• v. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
• v. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the…
• adv. Without seeing; unseeingly.
• adv. (poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.

cape

• n. (geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory;…
• n. A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but…
• v. (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
• v. To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
• v. (obsolete) To look for, search after.
• v. (rare, dialectal or obsolete) To gaze or stare.

chimneypiece

• n. A mantelpiece.

cloak

• n. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
• n. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
• n. (figuratively) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
• n. (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
• v. To cover as with a cloak.
• v. (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

covering

• n. (countable) That which covers something.
• n. (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.
• v. present participle of cover.

curtain

• n. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
• n. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
• n. (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified…
• n. (euphemistic, also "final curtain") Death.
• n. (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.
• v. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
• v. (figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

cuticle

• n. The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
• n. The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
• n. Dead or cornified epidermis.
• n. (zoology, botany) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.
• n. A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.

diffuse

• v. (transitive) To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or…
• v. (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion…
• adj. Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.

drape

• n. (Britain) A curtain, a drapery.
• n. (textiles) The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
• n. (US) See drapes.
• n. (US) A youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore,…
• v. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
• v. To rail at; to banter.
• v. To make cloth.
• v. To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
• v. To hang or rest limply.
• v. To spread over, cover.

drapery

• n. (uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
• n. (countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
• n. The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
• n. Cloth, or woollen materials in general.

epidermis

• n. The outer, protective layer of the skin of vertebrates, covering the dermis.
• n. The similar outer layer of cells in invertebrates and plants.

furnishing

• v. present participle of furnish.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Furniture, fittings, and other detachable accessories.
• n. (of an animal, in the plural) A portion of longer hair within the coat of a dog, rabbit, etc.

layer

• n. A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
• n. A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
• n. One of the items in a hierarchy.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to cut or divide (something) into layers.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to arrange (something) in layers.
• n. A person who lays things, such as tiles.
• n. A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
• n. A hen kept to lay eggs.
• n. A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.

mantel

• n. The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney.
• n. (climbing) A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also…
• v. (climbing) To surmount a ledge by pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body.

mantelpiece

• n. A shelf that is affixed to the wall above a fireplace.

mantlepiece

• n. Alternative spelling of mantelpiece.

pall

• n. (archaic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
• n. (Christianity) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church.
• n. (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the…
• n. (Christianity) A pallium (woollen vestment in Roman Catholicism).
• n. (heraldry) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter…
• n. A heavy canvas, especially one laid over a coffin or tomb.
• n. An outer garment; a cloak or mantle.
• n. (obsolete) nausea.
• n. A feeling of gloom.
• v. To cloak.
• v. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
• v. (intransitive) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.

pallium

• n. A woollen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble, conferred on archbishops…
• n. (historical) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
• n. (zoology) The mantle of a mollusc.
• n. (meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
• n. (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.

screen

• n. A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
• n. A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing…
• n. The informational viewing area of electronic output devices; the result of the output.
• n. The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
• n. One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
• n. (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• n. (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects.
• n. (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball…
• n. (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by…
• n. (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame…
• n. (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's…
• n. (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection,…
• n. (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
• v. To filter by passing through a screen.
• v. To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing.
• v. (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
• v. To fit with a screen.
• v. To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility…
• v. To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds…

shelf

• n. A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and…
• n. The capacity of such an object.
• n. A projecting ledge that resembles such an object.
• n. A reef, shoal or sandbar.

spread

• v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
• v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• n. The act of spreading.
• n. Something that has been spread.
• n. An expanse of land.
• n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
• n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
• n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
• n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
• n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
• n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
• n. A numerical difference.
• n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
• n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
• n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
• n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
• n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
• n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
• n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

symbol

• n. A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
• n. Any object, typically material, which is meant to represent another (usually abstract) even if there is…
• n. (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context;…
• n. A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
• n. Visible traces or impressions, made using a writing device or tool, that are connected together and/or…
• n. (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
• n. That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
• n. Share; allotment.
• v. To symbolize.