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Coverb vs Covert - What's the difference?

coverb | covert |

As nouns the difference between coverb and covert

is that coverb is (grammar) any of a class of words in various languages including chinese and hungarian whose function is analogous to the cases, prepositions and postpositions of other languages while covert is area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.

As an adjective covert is

hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.

coverb

English

Noun

(wikipedia coverb) (en noun)
  • (grammar) Any of a class of words in various languages including Chinese and Hungarian whose function is analogous to the cases, prepositions and postpositions of other languages.

    • See also

    * preposition * preverb

    covert

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.5:
    • Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
    • to plant a covert alley
  • (figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • how covert matters may be best disclosed
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • whether of open war or covert guile
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
    • , volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= How algorithms rule the world , passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.

    Synonyms

    * See also * feme covert

    Antonyms

    * overt

    Derived terms

    * covert stuttering

    Related terms

    * cover

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
  • (lb) A feather that covers others

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