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Cloak vs Smock - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between cloak and smock

is that cloak is a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood while smock is a woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise.

As verbs the difference between cloak and smock

is that cloak is to cover as with a cloak while smock is to provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Alfred Tennyson.

As an adjective smock is

of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock.

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

    smock

    English

    (wikipedia smock)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A woman's undergarment; a shift; a chemise.
  • *14th century ,
  • *:Before the folk herselfe stripped she,
  • *:And in her smock , with foot and head all bare,
  • *:Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
  • A blouse; a smock frock.
    • (Carlyle)
  • A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
  • Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.

    • Derived terms

    * smock mill * smock race

    Verb

  • To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. .
  • To apply smocking.

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