Encase vs Cloak - What's the difference?
encase | cloak | Related terms |
To enclose, as in a case.
*1918 , Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe :
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 A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
(figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
* South
(Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
To cover as with a cloak.
(science fiction, ambitransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
Encase is a related term of cloak.
As verbs the difference between encase and cloak
is that encase is to enclose, as in a case 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.encase
English
Alternative forms
* incaseVerb
(encas)- They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses.
Anagrams
* * * *cloak
English
(wikipedia cloak)Noun
(en noun)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.’}}
- No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak .
Derived terms
* cloak and daggerSee also
* burnoose, burnous, burnouse * domino costumeVerb
- The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.
