Cover vs Veil - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between cover and veil

is that cover is a lid while veil is something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.

As verbs the difference between cover and veil

is that cover is to place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect while veil is to don, or garb with, a veil.

As an adjective cover

is of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.

cover

English

(wikipedia cover)

Noun

(en noun)

A lid.

A hiding from view.

A front and back of a book or magazine.

A top sheet of a bed.

A cover charge.

A setting at a restaurant table or formal .

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(music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.

(topology) A set (more often known as a family ) of sets, whose union contains the given set.

(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.

(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.

(legal) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.

(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.

(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story

The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.

(Knight)

In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.

Derived terms

* cover board * cover charge * cover letter * cover story * cover version * take cover * tonneau cover

Adjective

(-)

Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.

(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.

Verb

(en verb)

To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

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To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).

*(John Brougham) (1814-1880)

*:the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland

(label) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.

To deal with.

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*:Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist'', ''The New York Times'', ''Scientific American'', and ''Wired .

To be enough money for.

(label) To act as a replacement.

(label) To have as an assignment or responsibility.

(label) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).

To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or'' to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; ''or to threaten using an aimed firearm.

To provide insurance coverage for.

To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).

To protect or control (a piece or square).

Quotations

* (English Citations of "cover")

Derived terms

* coverage * cover up * cover one's bases * coverer * discover * duck and cover * recover * uncover

Descendants

* German: (l)

veil

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.

* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 51

The veil of the temple was rent in twain.

* Milton

She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.

A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

* Shakespeare

[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.

* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 4.

Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.

The calyptra of mosses.

A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.

A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.

(zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa)

(mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

Verb

To don, or garb with, a veil.

To conceal as with a veil.

The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

Anagrams

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