English Dictionary

cover

/ˈkʌvɚ/

noun

A lid. / (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view. / The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc. / The top sheet of a bed.

Please put the cover on the pot.

意味（1）

A lid.

意味（2）

(uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.

The soldiers took cover behind a ruined building.

意味（3）

The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.

意味（4）

The top sheet of a bed.

意味（5）

A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.

意味（6）

A cover charge.

There's a $15 cover tonight.

意味（7）

A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.

When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

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

意味（10）

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

The open intervals are a cover for the real numbers.

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

意味（12）

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

意味（13）

(law) 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.

意味（14）

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

意味（15）

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

意味（16）

(dated) A swindler's confederate.

意味（17）

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

意味（18）

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

意味（19）

(construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.