Veil vs Mantle - What's the difference?

In zoology terms the difference between veil and mantle

is that veil is velum A circular membrane round the cap of medusa while mantle is the back of a bird together with the folded wings.

As nouns the difference between veil and mantle

is that 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 while mantle is a piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. Compare mantum.

As verbs the difference between veil and mantle

is that veil is to don, or garb with, a veil while mantle is to cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.

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.

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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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