Cloak vs Gag - What's the difference?

Cloak is a related term of gag.

As nouns the difference between cloak and gag

is that cloak is a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood while gag is gag (a joke or other mischievous prank).

As a verb cloak

is to cover as with a cloak.

cloak

English

(wikipedia cloak)

Noun

(en noun)

A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

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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

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

gag

English

Abbreviation

(Abbreviation) (head) (Group-specific antigen)

group specific antigens

Noun

(en noun)

A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.

(legal) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.

A joke or other mischievous prank.

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A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.

(archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.

a gag of mutton fat

(Lamb)

Synonyms

* (legal) gag order * (joke) See also

Derived terms

* sight gag

Verb

To experience the vomiting reflex.

He gagged when he saw the open wound.

To cause to heave with nausea.

(rfc-sense) To : to order a recruit to exercise until he "gags" (usually spoken in exaggeration).

To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck?; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”}}

''The victims could not speak because the burglar had gagged them with duct tape.

(figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.

When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.

* Macaulay

The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged , and reason to be hoodwinked.

To pry or hold open by means of a gag.

* Fortescue (translation)

mouths gagged to such a wideness

Derived terms

* gag me with a spoon