Mantle



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• n. 披风, 斗篷; v. 覆盖
• ［英］ n. 披风, 斗篷 ( a loose sleeveless cloak or cape) ; v. 覆盖 ( to cover as with a mantle, envelop; cloak)
• ［例］ Snow mantles the heights. ( 雪覆盖着高地)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English mantel, from Anglo-French, from Latin mantellum
• Date: 13th century
• 1.
  • a. a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes ; cloak
  • b. a figurative cloak symbolizing preeminence or authority zuoxieaccepted the ~ of leadershipyouxie
• 2.
  • a. something that covers, enfolds, or envelops
  • b.
    • (1) a fold or lobe or pair of lobes of the body wall of a mollusk or brachiopod that in shell-bearing forms lines the shell and bears shell-secreting glands
    • (2) the soft external body wall that lines the test or shell of a tunicate or barnacle
  • c. the outer wall and casing of a blast furnace above the hearth; broadly an insulated support or casing in which something is heated
• 3. the upper back of a bird
• 4. a lacy hood or sheath of some refractory material that gives light by incandescence when placed over a flame
• 5.
  • a. regolith
  • b. the part of the interior of a terrestrial planet and especially the earth that lies beneath the crust and above the central core
• 6. mantel

II. verb (~d; mantling)

• Date: 13th century
• transitive verb
  • to cover with or as if with a ~ ; cloak zuoxiethe encroaching jungle growth that ~d the building — Sanka Knoxyouxie
• intransitive verb
  • 1. to become covered with a coating
  • 2. to spread over a surface
  • 3. blush zuoxieher rich face mantling with emotion — Benjamin Disraeliyouxie

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