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COVERT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A covering that serves to conceal or shelter somethingplay

Example:

the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background

Synonyms:

concealment; cover; covert; screen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("covert" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "covert"):

blind (a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters))

camouflage (device or stratagem for concealment or deceit)

shoji (a translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper)

stalking-horse (screen consisting of a figure of a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A flock of cootsplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("covert" is a kind of...):

flock (a group of birds)

Meronyms (members of "covert"):

coot (slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowedplay

Example:

covert funding for the rebels

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

undisclosed; unrevealed (not made known)

under wraps (kept secret)

subterranean; subterraneous; ulterior (lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed))

behind-the-scenes; sub-rosa; under-the-table (designed and carried out secretly or confidentially)

secret (communicated covertly)

cloaked; disguised; masked (having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading)

collusive; conniving (acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end)

secret (indulging only covertly)

clandestine; cloak-and-dagger; hole-and-corner; hugger-mugger; hush-hush; secret; surreptitious; undercover; underground (conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods)

black ((of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading)

backstair; backstairs; furtive (secret and sly or sordid)

Also:

implicit; inexplicit (implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something)

concealed (hidden on any grounds for any motive)

invisible; unseeable (impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye)

Antonym:

overt (open and observable; not secret or hidden)

Derivation:

covertness (the state of being covert and hidden)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of a wife) being under the protection of her husbandplay

Example:

a woman covert

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

protected (kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Credits

 Context examples: 

No, not if it were to be by the side of Barton covert, and they were kept watching for two hours together.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A sneer, however, whether covert or open, had now no longer that power over me it once possessed: as I sat between my cousins, I was surprised to find how easy I felt under the total neglect of the one and the semi- sarcastic attentions of the other—Eliza did not mortify, nor Georgiana ruffle me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)




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