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Cloaking vs Covering - What's the difference?

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Cloaking is a related term of covering.


As verbs the difference between cloaking and covering

is that cloaking is while covering is .

As nouns the difference between cloaking and covering

is that cloaking is the act of wrapping or covering with a cloak while covering is (countable) that which covers something.

cloaking

English

Verb

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    • 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.

    • covering

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) That which covers something.
  • (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover .

    • Verb

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