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Lurk vs Covert - What's the difference?

lurk | covert |

As nouns the difference between lurk and covert

is that lurk is the act of lurking while covert is area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.

As a verb lurk

is to remain concealed in order to ambush.

As an adjective covert is

hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.

lurk

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To remain concealed in order to ambush.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
  • To remain unobserved.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
  • To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
  • if we find the sophist lurking , we must round him up by royal command of the argument
  • (Internet) To view an internet forum without posting comments.
  • Derived terms

    * lurker

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of lurking.
  • * 1921 : George Colby Borley, The Lost Horizon
  • There were enemies on the lurk and time was against him.
  • * 1955 : John Maxwell Edmonds Longus, Daphnis et Chloe
  • ... barked furiously and made at him as at a wolf, and before he could wholly rise from the lurk because of the sudden consternation, ...
  • * 2004 : Charles Reade, A Simpleton
  • At two PM a man had called on him, and had produced one of his advertisements, and had asked him if that was all square—no bobbies on the lurk .

    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

    Noun

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

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