cover (
also cover up) to put something over, on, or around something else, to hide it, protect it, or improve its appearance:
Cover the dough, and leave it to rise. She wears a lot of make-up to cover her spots.put something over something to put a cloth, blanket etc loosely over the top of something in order to cover it:
They gave him a blanket to put over his legs.wrap (
also wrap up) to put paper, plastic, cloth etc tightly around something in order to protect, decorate, or post it:
I haven’t wrapped her birthday present yet.envelop literary to surround something completely so that it is difficult to see – used especially about darkness, smoke, and clouds:
At sunset, darkness enveloped the town.be shrouded in mist/darkness/smoke etc literary to be covered and hidden in mist, smoke etc:
The mountains were shrouded in mist.the front/back cover The price of the book is on the back cover.a hard/soft cover I never buy books in hard cover – they’re much more expensive.a book/magazine cover There was a blonde girl on the magazine cover.a cover story (=the main story on the front of a newspaper or magazine) Last month’s cover story was entitled ‘Your Child’s Brain’.a cover photo/shot (=picture on the front cover) The picture became the July 4th cover shot.a cover design the cover design of the Christmas issuea cover girl (=an attractive girl whose photo is on the front cover) She had always liked the idea of being a cover girl.read something from cover to cover (=read a book, magazine etc very thoroughly) He read it from cover to cover in less than three hours.covering a layer of something, or a sheet of something, that covers something else:
There was light covering of snow on the ground. The hard shell acts as a protective covering. the cloth coverings on the altarlid a cover for a container such as a pan or a box:
the lid of the box a saucepan lidtop/cap the thing that you put on top of a bottle, tube, or pen, in order to prevent the liquid or other things inside from coming out:
I can’t find the cap for the pen. Put the top back on the milk! the cap that goes on the toothpastecork the top part that you put on top of a bottle of wine:
Can you take off the cork for me?wrapping (
also wrap especially American English) a sheet of paper, plastic etc that is put around something in order to cover or protect it:
John tore the wrapping off his presents. The lamp was still in its wrapping.wrapper a piece of paper or plastic that is put around something you buy, especially a small object:
Put the candy wrappers in your pocket. He took the drinking straw out of its wrapper. [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲