Covert vs Masked - What's the difference?
covert | masked | Related terms |
Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.5:
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; concealed; hidden.
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(zoology) Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.
Covert is a related term of masked.
As adjectives the difference between covert and masked
is that covert is hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered while masked is wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; concealed; hidden.As a noun covert
is area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.As a verb masked is
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne
- to plant a covert alley
- how covert matters may be best disclosed
- whether of open war or covert guile
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