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Cloak vs Cloaking - What's the difference?

cloak | cloaking |

As nouns the difference between cloak and cloaking

is that cloak is a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood while cloaking is the act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.

As verbs the difference between cloak and cloaking

is that cloak is to cover as with a cloak while cloaking is .

cloak

English

(wikipedia cloak)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
  • A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
  • (figurative)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
  • * South
    • No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak .
  • (Internet)  A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

    • Derived terms

    * cloak and dagger

    See also

    * burnoose, burnous, burnouse * domino costume

    Verb

  • To cover as with a cloak.
  • (science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
    • The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

    Derived terms

    * cloaking device

    cloaking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.
  • * Strype
    • to take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings
  • * (Sir Walter Scott), Guy Mannering – or The Astrologer
    • I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings , his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.
  • The material from which cloaks are made.