Cloak vs Curtain - What's the difference?
cloak | curtain | Synonyms |
A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
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, chapter=5 A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
(figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
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(Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
To cover as with a cloak.
(science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
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A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
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, chapter=2 (label) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
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Death.
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(label) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
A flag; an ensign.
Cloak is a synonym of curtain.
As nouns the difference between cloak and curtain
is that cloak is a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood while curtain is a piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc to offer privacy and keep out light.As verbs the difference between cloak and curtain
is that cloak is to cover as with a cloak while curtain is to cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.cloak
English
(wikipedia cloak)Noun
(en noun)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.’}}
- No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak .
Derived terms
* cloak and daggerSee also
* burnoose, burnous, burnouse * domino costumeVerb
- The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.
Derived terms
* cloaking devicecurtain
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
citation, passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what
- Captain Rense'', beleagring the Citie of ''Errona for us,.
- For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.
- (Shakespeare)
