English Explanatory Dictionary

mantle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
  2. A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
  3. Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
  4. The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
  5. The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
  6. The zone of hot gases around a flame.
  7. A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
  8. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
  9. A penstock for a water wheel.
  10. The cerebral cortex.
  11. The layer between Earth's core and crust.
  12. Any similar layer in an exoplanet.
verb
  1. To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
  2. To become covered or concealed.
  3. To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
  4. To climb over or onto something.
  5. The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
  6. The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈmæn.təl/ En-us-mantle.ogg en-au-mantle.ogg

Word forms

mantle mantles mantling mantled

Etymology

From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantel; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantellum (“covering, cloak”) (French manteau), diminutive of mantum (Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull. Doublet of manteau.

Derived words

alpine lady's-mantle assume the mantle assuming the mantle biomantle bishop's mantle Blue Mantle carrying the mantle carry the mantle foot mantle gas mantle heating mantle immantle inmantle inner mantle lady's mantle lower mantle mantle field mantle leaf mantlepiece mantle plume mantleslug mantle-tree outer mantle overmantle pass the mantle picking up the mantle pick up the mantle take up the mantle taking up the mantle transmantle unmantle upper mantle water mantle Welsbach mantle

Translations

Bulgarian: чорап Catalan: camisa Danish: glødenet Dutch: gloeikous Finnish: hehkusukka Finnish: sukka Finnish: miehusta French: manchon German: Glühstrumpf Italian: reticella Norwegian Bokmål: glødenett Russian: кали́льная се́тка Spanish: camisa Swedish: glödstrompa Welsh: mantell Sicilian: pettu
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