Cover vs Eiderdown - What's the difference?

Cover is a synonym of eiderdown.

As nouns the difference between cover and eiderdown

is that cover is cover version, cover song while eiderdown is (uncountable) the down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.

cover

English

(wikipedia cover)

Noun

(en noun)

A lid.

A hiding from view.

A front and back of a book or magazine.

A top sheet of a bed.

A cover charge.

A setting at a restaurant table or formal .

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(music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.

(topology) A set (more often known as a family ) of sets, whose union contains the given set.

(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.

(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.

(legal) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.

(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.

(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story

The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.

(Knight)

In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.

Derived terms

* cover board * cover charge * cover letter * cover story * cover version * take cover * tonneau cover

Adjective

(-)

Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.

(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.

Verb

(en verb)

To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

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To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).

*(John Brougham) (1814-1880)

*:the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland

(label) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.

To deal with.

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To be enough money for.

(label) To act as a replacement.

(label) To have as an assignment or responsibility.

(label) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).

To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or'' to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; ''or to threaten using an aimed firearm.

To provide insurance coverage for.

To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).

To protect or control (a piece or square).

Quotations

* (English Citations of "cover")

Derived terms

* coverage * cover up * cover one's bases * coverer * discover * duck and cover * recover * uncover

Descendants

* German: (l)

eiderdown

English

Alternative forms

*eider down

Noun

(uncountable) The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.

(countable) A quilt stuffed with this down.

* 1919 ,

I entered. It was a very small room, overcrowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red eiderdown , and there was a large wardrobe, a round table, a very small washstand, and two stuffed chairs covered with red rep.

*1851 ,

The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven’s sake to quit—the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.