cover
Meanings
- A lid.
- Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
- The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
- The top sheet of a bed.
- 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.
- A bag or packet.
- A cover charge.
- A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
- A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
- A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- A tarpaulin or other device used to cover the wicket during rain, to prevent it getting wet.
- The area of the stumps that is blocked by the batsman so as to defend the wicket.
- Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
- Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
- To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To put on one's hat.
- To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
- To have under one’s scope or purview.
- To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
- To deal with or include someone or something.
- To have as an assignment or responsibility.
- To provide insurance coverage for.
- To be enough money for.
- A surname.
- A river in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England, which joins the River Ure; in full, the River Cover.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Latin operiō Latin cooperiō Old French covrirbor. Middle English coveren English cover From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō (“to cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operiō (“to close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wrēon (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again”, the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir and Portuguese cobrir.