Covery vs Covers - What's the difference?
covery | covers |
(rare) a dispelling of false or misleading notions
* J. B. S. Haldane (1937). "Forward",
(pluralonly) The bedclothes; collectively, the sheets, blankets, etc.
(cricket) The area of the field near cover and extra cover.
(cricket) The tarpaulins or other devices used to cover the wicket during rain, in order to prevent it getting wet.
(cover)
As nouns the difference between covery and covers
is that covery is a dispelling of false or misleading notions while covers is plural of lang=en.As a verb covers is
third-person singular of cover.covery
English
Noun
(coveries)Recent Advances in Geneticsby C. D. Darlington, p. vi.
- This book is indispensable not only because of the discoveries it describes, but almost equally on account of the coveries', to borrow a word from Samuel Butler. A fundamental ' covery is that the expressions "reductional division" and "equational division," those bogies of our schooldays, are meaningless.
References
* Samuel Butler (1921). "The Art of Covery",The Note-books of Samuel Butler*: The Art of Covery: This is as important and interesting as Dis-covery. Surely the glory of finally getting rid of and burying a long and troublesome matter should be as great as that of making an important discovery. The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.
covers
English
Noun
(head)- It's time to get under the covers !
