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Cloak vs Mantle - What's the difference?

cloak | mantle |

As nouns the difference between cloak and mantle

is that cloak is a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood while mantle is a piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. Compare mantum.

As verbs the difference between cloak and mantle

is that cloak is to cover as with a cloak while mantle is to cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.

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

    mantle

    English

    (wikipedia mantle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
  • (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
    • At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
    The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
  • (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
  • * (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)
    • the green mantle of the standing pool
  • (zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
  • * 1990 , Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals , page 71 (where there is an illustration):
    • Before copulation in Loligo'', the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle'''. He then reaches into his ' mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.
  • (zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
  • The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.
  • The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
    • (Raymond)
  • A penstock for a water wheel.
  • (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
  • (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
  • A fireplace shelf;
  • (heraldry) A mantling.

    • Derived terms

    * assume the mantle * gas mantle * mantlepiece * mantle-tree * upper mantle

    Verb

    (mantl)
  • To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To become covered or concealed.
  • (of face, cheeks) To flush.
  • * 1913 ,
    • The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.

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