covering

Speech parts

1. covering - Noun

2. covering - Verb

Meaning

of Cover

Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cover masking application sheet shield hiding mask shelter screening coating lining casing curtain blanket sheath
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Antonyms

centre unroll appear beholding baring reading
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Hypernyms

protection hiding concealment concealing artifact artefact

Hyponyms

hood slough guard sac case top

Phrases with the word

covering up covering letter covering fire covering horse pulling pieces of a covering away paper covering

Examples

The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself. Louis C.K.

One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serves as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn for foreign visitors against Israel. Caroline Glick

If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka. Christopher Hitchens

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. Meister Eckhart

The skin of a lion covering some mongrel beast. Latin Proverb

It is as well to be naked as to have no covering. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

covered-dish supper coverer coverglass covering a range of covering a wide range of covering armour