Mantle vs Shroud - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between mantle and shroud

is that mantle is a piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. Compare mantum while shroud is that which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

As verbs the difference between mantle and shroud

is that mantle is to cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise while shroud is to cover with a shroud.

mantle

English

(wikipedia mantle)

Noun

(en noun)

A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.

(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.

At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.

The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.

(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)

the green mantle of the standing pool

(zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.

* 1990 , Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals , page 71 (where there is an illustration):

Before copulation in Loligo'', the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle'''. He then reaches into his ' mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.

(zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

(Raymond)

A penstock for a water wheel.

(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.

(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.

A fireplace shelf;

(heraldry) A mantling.

Derived terms

* assume the mantle * gas mantle * mantlepiece * mantle-tree * upper mantle

Verb

(mantl)

To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.

(Shakespeare)

To become covered or concealed.

(of face, cheeks) To flush.

* 1913 ,

The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.

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shroud

English

(wikipedia shroud)

Noun

(en noun)

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

* Sandys

swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

* Shakespeare

a dead man in his shroud

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

* Byron

Jura answers through her misty shroud .

A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

* Chapman

The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.

* Withals

a vault, or shroud , as under a church

The branching top of a tree; foliage.

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(nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.

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One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Verb

(en verb)

To cover with a shroud.

* Francis Bacon

The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.

To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.

The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.

* Dryden

Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.

To take shelter or harbour.

* Milton

If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.