Thicket vs Covert - What's the difference?
thicket | covert |
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
(figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
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, title= (computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.
Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.5:
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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In figuratively terms the difference between thicket and covert
is that thicket is a dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract while covert is secret, surreptitious, concealed.As nouns the difference between thicket and covert
is that thicket is a dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse while covert is area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.As an adjective covert is
hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.thicket
English
Noun
(en noun)Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne
- to plant a covert alley
- how covert matters may be best disclosed
- whether of open war or covert guile
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.