Cover vs Secrete - 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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*(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.
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To deal with.
*2010 (publication date), "Contributors", , ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 7:
*: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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(obsolete, rare) separated
* 1678 : , The True Intellectual System of the Universe , book 1, chapter 4, pages
To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
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* 1863 : (author), Frances Elizabeth Kingsley (editor), Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life (first published posthumously in 1877),
* 1887 : , Democracy and Other Addresses ,
To conceal.
* 1914 : The Pacific Reporter , volume 142,
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 43 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
With away, to steal.
Cover is a synonym of secrete.
As a noun cover
is cover version, cover song.As a verb secrete is
.As an adjective secrete is
secreted.cover
English
(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
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—
Quotations
* (English Citations of "cover")Derived terms
* coverage * cover up * cover one's bases * coverer * discover * duck and cover * recover * uncoverDescendants
* German: (l)secrete
English
Etymology 1
First attested in 1678: from the (etyl) participle .Adjective
(-)307and 582:
- they ?uppo?ing Two other Divine Hypo?ta?es Superiour thereunto, which were perfectly Secrete from Matter.
- This ?o containeth all things, as not being yet ?ecrete and di?tinct''; ''whereas in the Second they are di?cerned and di?tingui?hed by Rea?on''; that is, they are ''Actually di?tingui?hed'' in their ''Ideas''; ''whereas the Fir?t is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things.
Etymology 2
First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from (etyl) and the (etyl) secretar.Verb
- Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not know.
Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, McGraw-Hill Medical, page 1202:
- Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.
page 156(8th edition: 1880)
- If you won’t believe my great new doctrine (which, by the bye, is as old as the Greeks), that souls secrete their bodies, as snails do shells, you will remain in outer darkness.
page 15(1892 reprint)
- Let me not be misunderstood. I see as clearly as any man possibly can, and rate as highly, the value of wealth, and of hereditary wealth, as the security of refinement, the feeder of all those arts that ennoble and beautify life, and as making a country worth living in. Many an ancestral hall here in England has been a nursery of that culture which has been of example and benefit to all. Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting .
Etymology 3
Alteration of verb sense of secretVerb
(secret)page 450(West Publishing Company)
- Plaintiffs filed an affidavit for an attachment, alleging that defendant was about to assign, secrete , and dispose of his property with intent to delay and defraud his creditors, and was about to convert his property into money to place it beyond the reach of his creditors.
- Whereas the Renaissance had allowed madness into the light, the classical age saw it as scandal or shame. Families secreted mad uncles and strange cousins in asylums.
- The royal jewels were secreted away in the middle of the night, sub rosa .
Usage notes
* The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are heteronymous with the corresponding forms of the similar verb secret, and this can create ambiguity when the word is encountered in print.References
* “†se?crete, a.'']” listed in the ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary], second edition (1989) (adjective) * OED (second edition), “
secrete, v.” (verb and figurative senses) English back-formations ----