Mantle vs Smother - What's the difference?
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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.
(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)
(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):
(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.
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.
To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
To become covered or concealed.
(of face, cheeks) To flush.
* 1913 ,
To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of.
To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air: as, to smother a fire with ashes.
To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish; stifle; cover up; conceal; hide: as, the committee's report was smothered.
In cookery: to cook in a close dish: as, beefsteak smothered with onions.
To daub or smear.
To be suffocated.
To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
Of a fire: to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
Figuratively: to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
(soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball
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(Australian rules football) To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly
# Smoldering; slow combustion
# Cookware used in such cooking
# The state of being stifled; suppression.
#* Francis Bacon
# Stifling smoke; thick dust.
# (Australian rules football) The act of smothering a kick (see above).
As a proper noun mantle
is .As a verb smother is
to suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of.As a noun smother is
that which smothers or appears to smother, particularly .mantle
English
(wikipedia mantle)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- the green mantle of the standing pool
- 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.
- (Raymond)
Derived terms
* assume the mantle * gas mantle * mantlepiece * mantle-tree * upper mantleVerb
(mantl)- (Shakespeare)
- The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.
External links
* (Gas mantle) * *Anagrams
* * * *smother
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) smothren, smortheren, alteration (due to smother, .Verb
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) smother, .Noun
(en noun)- not to keep their suspicions in smother
- (Shakespeare)