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Dissemble vs Cloak - What's the difference?

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Dissemble is a related term of cloak.


As verbs the difference between dissemble and cloak

is that dissemble is to disguise or conceal something while cloak is to cover as with a cloak.

As a noun cloak is

a long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

dissemble

English

Verb

(dissembl)
  • To disguise or conceal something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
  • * J. P. Kemble
    • Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.
  • To feign.
  • * 1681 , John Dryden,
    • And like a lion, slumb'ring in the way,
    Or sleep-dissembling , while he waits his prey.
  • * Tatler
    • He soon dissembled a sleep.
  • To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
  • To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
  • * XVII century, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia''; from ''Boccace
    • While to his arms the blushing bride he took,
    To seeming sadness she composed her look;
    As if by force subjected to his will,
    Though pleased, dissembling , and a woman still.

    cloak

    English

    (wikipedia cloak)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 citation , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}
  • A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
  • (figurative)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
  • * South
    • No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak .
  • (Internet)  A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

    • Derived terms

    * cloak and dagger

    See also

    * burnoose, burnous, burnouse * domino costume

    Verb

  • To cover as with a cloak.
  • (science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
    • The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

    Derived terms

    * cloaking device