Cover vs Extenuate - What's the difference?
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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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, chapter=1 (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.
In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
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To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
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To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
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To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
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*:the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland
(label) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
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To deal with.
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*:Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist'', ''The New York Times'', ''Scientific American'', and ''Wired .
To be enough money for.
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(label) To act as a replacement.
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(label) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
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(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.
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To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
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To protect or control (a piece or square).
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To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.
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To become thinner.
To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; opposed to aggravate.
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(obsolete) To lower or degrade; to detract from.
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Cover is a related term of extenuate.
As a noun cover
is cover version, cover song.As a verb extenuate is
to make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.cover
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(wikipedia cover)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
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Derived terms
* cover board * cover charge * cover letter * cover story * cover version * take cover * tonneau coverAdjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)Charles T. Ambrose
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Quotations
* (English Citations of "cover")Derived terms
* coverage * cover up * cover one's bases * coverer * discover * duck and cover * recover * uncoverDescendants
* German: (l)extenuate
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Verb
(en-verb)- His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail.
- To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner
- CLAUDIO. I know what you would say: if I have known her,
- You'll say she did embrace me as a husband,
- And so extenuate the 'forehand sin: No, Leonato,
- I never tempted her with word too large;
- But, as a brother to his sister, show'd
- Bashful sincerity and comely love.
- Let us extenuate , conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality.
- Who can extenuate thee?