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单词 cover
释义
cover
(kʌvəʳ )
Word forms: covers , covering , covered
1. verb A2
If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
Cover the casserole with a tight-fitting lid. [VERB noun + with]
He whimpered and covered his face. [VERB noun]
Keep what's left in a covered container in the fridge. [VERB-ed]
2. verb A2
If one thing covers another, it has been placed over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
His finger went up to touch the black patch which covered his left eye. [VERB noun]
His head was covered with a khaki turban. [be VERB-ed + with]
Synonyms: conceal, cover up, screen, hide  
3. verb B1
If one thing covers another, it forms a layer over its surface.
The clouds had spread and nearly covered the entire sky. [VERB noun]
Two oil slicks are covering a total area of seven square miles. [VERB noun]
The desk was covered with papers. [be V-ed + with/in]
Synonyms: overlay, blanket, eclipse, mantle  
-covered combining form in adjective
...chocolate-covered biscuits.
4. verb B1
To cover something with or in something else means to put a layer of the second thing over its surface.
The trees in your garden may have covered the ground with apples, pears or plums. [V n + with/in]
She covered the walls with the signs of the zodiac. [V n with/in n]
5. verb B2
If you cover a particular distance, you travel that distance.
It would not be easy to cover ten miles on that amount of petrol. [VERB noun]
It covered the distance in 28 hours compared with the train's six days. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: travel over, cross, traverse, pass through or over  
6. verb
To cover someone or something means to protect them from attack, for example by pointing a gun in the direction of people who may attack them, ready to fire the gun if necessary.
You go first. I'll cover you. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: protect, guard, defend, shelter  
7. uncountable noun
Cover is protection from enemy attack that is provided for troops or ships carrying out a particular operation, for example by aircraft.
They said they could not provide adequate air cover for ground operations.
8. uncountable noun
Cover is trees, rocks, or other places where you shelter from the weather or from an attack, or hide from someone.
Charles lit the fuses and they ran for cover.
...barren wastes of field with no trees and no cover.
Synonyms: protection, shelter, shield, refuge  
9. verb
An insurance policy that covers a person or thing guarantees that money will be paid by the insurance company in relation to that person or thing.
Their insurer paid the £900 bill, even though the policy did not strictly cover it. [VERB noun]
These items are not covered by your medical insurance. [VERB noun]
You should take out travel insurance covering you and your family against theft. [VERB noun + against]
Synonyms: insure, compensate, provide for, offset  
10. uncountable noun
Insurance cover is a guarantee from an insurance company that money will be paid by them if it is needed.
Make sure that the firm's insurance cover is adequate.
Synonyms: insurance, payment, protection, compensation  
11. verb
If a law covers a particular set of people, things, or situations, it applies to them.
The law covers four categories of experiments. [VERB noun]
In the US, the matter is covered by the Copyright Act of 1976. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: deal with, refer to, provide for, take account of  
12. verb B1+
If you cover a particular topic, you discuss it in a lecture, course, or book.
The Oxford Chemistry Primers aim to cover important topics in organic chemistry. [VERB noun]
Other subjects covered included nerves and how to overcome them. [VERB-ed]
13. verb
If journalists, newspapers, or television companies cover an event, they report on it.
Robinson was sent to Italy to cover the World Cup. [VERB noun]
The U.S. news media will cover the trial closely. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: report on, write about, commentate on, give an account of  
14. verb
If a sum of money covers something, it is enough to pay for it.
Send it to the address given with £1.50 to cover postage and administration. [VERB noun]
Those figures might not even cover the cost of breakages. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: pay for, fund, provide for, offset  
15. countable noun [oft noun NOUN] B1
A cover is something which is put over an object, usually in order to protect it.
...a family room with washable covers on the furniture.
...a duvet cover.
16. plural noun B2
The covers on your bed are the things such as sheets and blankets that you have on top of you.
She set her glass down and slid farther under the covers.
Synonyms: bedclothes, bedding, sheet, blanket  
17. countable noun B1
The cover of a book or a magazine is the outside part of it.
He was the second jazz musician to be featured on the cover of Time magazine.
...a small spiral-bound booklet with a green cover.
I used to read every issue from cover to cover.
Synonyms: jacket, case, binding, wrapper  
18. countable noun [usually singular]
Something that is a cover for secret or illegal activities seems respectable or normal, and is intended to hide the activities.
They set up a spurious temple that was a cover for sexual debauchery. [+ for]
As a cover story he generally tells people he is a freelance photographer.
19. verb
If you cover for someone who is doing something secret or illegal, you give false information or do not give all the information you have, in order to protect them.
Why would she cover for someone who was trying to kill her? [VERB + for]
20. verb
If you cover for someone who is ill or away, you do their work for them while they are not there.
She did not have enough nurses to cover for those who went ill or took holiday. [VERB + for]
21. verb
To cover a song originally performed by someone else means to record a new version of it.
He must make a decent living from other artists covering his songs. [VERB noun]
22. countable noun
A cover is the same as a cover version.
The single is a cover of an old Rolling Stones song. [+ of]
23.  See also covered, covering
24. to blow someone's cover phrase
To blow someone's cover means to cause their true identity or the true nature of their work to be revealed. [informal]
Asking those kind of questions could blow my cover.
The young man looked embarrassed, as if he were a spy whose cover had been blown.
25. to break cover phrase
If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
They began running again, broke cover and dashed towards the road.
26. to take cover phrase
If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
Shoppers took cover behind cars as police marksmen returned fire.
27. under cover phrase
If you are under cover, you are under something that protects you from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
'Get under cover!' shouted Billy, and we darted once more for the tables.
28. under cover of phrase
If you do something under cover of a particular situation, you are able to do it without being noticed because of that situation.
They move under cover of darkness.
29. cover your back/cover your rear phrase
If you cover your back or cover your rear, you do something in order to protect yourself, for example against criticism or against accusations of doing something wrong.
David has covered his back by having a clause inserted in the contract.
30. cover your ass phrase [VERB inflects]
Cover your ass means the same as cover your , back2. [informal, rude]
Just play it safe, cover your ass, keep your head down.
Phrasal verbs:
cover up
1. phrasal verb B1
If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
He fell asleep in the front room so I covered him up with a duvet. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
[Also VERB PARTICLE noun]
2. phrasal verb B2
If you cover up something that you do not want people to know about, you hide the truth about it.
He suspects there's a conspiracy to cover up the crime. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
They knew they had done something terribly wrong and lied to cover it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
How do we know you're not just covering up for your friend? [VERB PARTICLE + for]
3.  See also cover-up
Idioms:
cover your back
to do something to protect yourself, for example against criticism or against accusations of doing something wrong
"Perhaps the greatest singer of his generation." A well-placed "perhaps" always covers your back.
you can't judge a book by its cover
said to mean that you should wait until you know someone or something better before deciding whether you like them, because your first opinions may be wrong
You can't judge a book by its cover. Just because someone looks strange doesn't mean they're not a nice person.'
cover your tracks
to hide or destroy evidence of your identity or actions, because you want to keep them secret
The killer may have returned to the scene of the crime to cover his tracks.
cover the waterfront [mainly US]
to cover a very wide range of things, or cover every aspect of something
We have five employees looking after this whole project. They cover the entire waterfront: oil, real estate, high-tech, and everything else.
Collocations:
cover a distance
Players keep making the runs until they can no longer cover the distance in the required time.
The Sun
While the plane's designers are confident that it has the ability to cover the distance non-stop, they are less confident that its pilots do.
Times, Sunday Times
The claw marks cover a distance of 15 metres, which suggests that the dinosaur would have been able to swim with co-ordinated leg movements.
Times, Sunday Times
Cover a distance of 20-30 metres, focusing on repetition and good form.
The Sun
It should take 9-10 days to cover the distance, skiing for eight hours a day with plenty of breaks.
Times, Sunday Times
cover a mile
That man will one day be able to cover a mile in three minutes?
Times, Sunday Times
The 33-year-old has been crowned world backwards running champ three times in a row and can cover a mile in just over seven minutes.
The Sun
It can take hours rather than minutes to cover a mile or two.
Times, Sunday Times
Because we all know, don't we, that to cover a mile in a 50-metre pool requires you to swim fully 32 lengths of that pool.
Times, Sunday Times
She completed enough loops to cover a mile.
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cover a payment
This enables claimants to take out insurance to cover the payment of a defendant's costs if he or she loses.
Times, Sunday Times
The fundraising will help to repay a loan taken out to cover this payment.
Times, Sunday Times
Dividends have increased in an unbroken run for the past 24 years, and the group aims to cover the payment at 2.5 times earnings throughout its expansion.
Times, Sunday Times
This covers all payments and interest at 8 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
The funds to cover the payments had been held within a subsidiary rather than with the main company.
Times, Sunday Times
cover a range of
Synergy is aiming to offer a single policy covering a range of areas from business interruption, motor and liability insurance.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Cloud computing is a nebulous concept, if you will forgive the pun, covering a range of ideas.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This has covered a range of exotic beasts from Kentucky Derby winners and farm animals through to pandas and white tigers.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
cover a spectrum
At dusk, they head to the festival arena, where breakthrough artists cover a spectrum of electro, dubstep, breaks, blues, soul and indie rock on a dozen music stages.
Times, Sunday Times
Current projects cover a spectrum that includes environmental monitoring, outreach education, community-based research, planning, and restoration.
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They cover a spectrum of increasing symptom severity (staining, soilage, seepage and accidents).
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An individual multimedia designer may cover the spectrum throughout their career.
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The two types of instruments cover the spectrum of approaches to fiber optic plant taken by communication providers.
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cover a topic
The box contained a yellow booklet explaining the topic for that month, along with the pieces and supplies needed to cover the topic.
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They should be covering this topic in some way, whether that's a report on progress, or it's some sort of measurement of effectiveness.
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The lyrics cover the topic of transhumanism.
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This lesson covers the topic of the clergy privilege.
Christianity Today
The articles cover the topics of territory, membership, and organization of their government with a legislative, executive and judicial branch.
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cover an expense
An annual salary of 12,903 would be needed to cover the expense.
Times, Sunday Times
Again, we will cover the expense of that.
Times, Sunday Times
This means that it has plenty in the pot to cover the expense of opening new stores, which in turn should keep sales up.
Times, Sunday Times
I was also left with a hefty dry-cleaning bill from the hotel (another rip-off, this one legal), and, of course, my insurance didn't cover that expense.
Times, Sunday Times
This proved discouraging, crops failing to cover the expense of growing them.
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cover feature
The cover art for the original album and the updated version of the same cover feature a long bridge meandering off into the sky.
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The understory and riparian shrub cover feature snowberry, spiraea, ninebark, serviceberry, and red-twig dogwood.
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All versions of the back cover feature a small encircled picture.
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The cover features a 'nekkid' drawing of her.
The Times Literary Supplement
Every week its cover featured a chocolate cake and a diet plan.
Times, Sunday Times
cover image
Some presses pride themselves on giving each pamphlet a unique design, with a bespoke cover image and a format suited to the poems' dimensions.
The Times Literary Supplement
The album came with a big poster of the front cover image, with lyrics printed on the back.
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Select a particular edition (title) for more data at that level, such as a front cover image or linked contents.
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It used the back cover image with track titles overlaid and the banner from the normal front cover.
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However, the newspaper instead responded with an explanation of the intent of the cover image.
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cover lightly
Scatter the seed thinly (about 1cm apart) on the surface and sprinkle more compost on top, just to cover lightly.
Times, Sunday Times
Half-fill the saucepan with water and cover lightly with the lid.
The Sun
Place the bird in a roasting tin and cover lightly with foil.
Times, Sunday Times
Cover lightly with compost and gently water the pot, before placing it on a window sill or in a propagator.
The Sun
Cover lightly with compost or vermiculite, then place on a sunny windowsill or in the greenhouse.
Times, Sunday Times
cover loosely
Transfer the steaks to a plate, cover loosely with foil and leave to rest for five minutes.
The Sun
Cover loosely with clingfilm and chill for at least an hour.
Times, Sunday Times
Cover loosely and simmer lightly for 25 minutes.
The Sun
Spread the top evenly with the back of a spoon and then flip the excess cling film up to cover loosely but completely.
The Sun
Cover loosely with foil and leave to rest in a warm place for 10 minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
cover of a magazine
Yes, being on the cover of a magazine appeals to studios.
Times, Sunday Times
Mocks-ups of a front cover of the magazine featuring him adorned the walls of some of his golf clubs before they were exposed as fake and removed.
Times,Sunday Times
On the cover of the magazine was a fellow in washed-out jeans with holes in them, and scruffy tattoos on his arms.
Times, Sunday Times
They were most often on the back cover of the magazine.
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Each issue would have a focus article, usually featured on the cover of the magazine.
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cover page
Then he gave them the sheet music to hand out as they wished, and made money from selling advertisements on the back cover page.
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The cover page usually includes a checklist in which the scripts various aspects are rated on a scale ranging from poor to excellent.
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Finally, the cover page highlights the analysts ultimate recommendation.
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Passports issued after 2004 have the passport note and data pages reversed, with the passport note on the inner cover page.
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The magazine has two parts, each with its own cover page.
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cover partially
Stir, cover partially and simmer gently for 1 hour.
Times, Sunday Times
Cover partially and cook gently for another 20 minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
Cover partially and cook for 45-60 minutes, or until the dals are very soft.
Times, Sunday Times
Holes can be covered partially (1/3 covered, 1/2, 2/3, etc.) and pitch varied subtly or substantially by changing the blowing angle.
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cover photograph
Judging from the cover photograph, his nickname may be ironic.
Times, Sunday Times
The front cover photograph of a fairground roundabout didn't appeal to me.
Times, Sunday Times
Its cover photograph shows a young couple hard at it in a hotel bedroom, their generative parts covered in a beige knitwear blanket.
Times, Sunday Times
You have only to look at the cover photograph to see what a benefit this backdrop confers, at least for the twenty-two older foundations.
The Times Literary Supplement
This was reinforced by her cover photograph and a fantastic two-page article.
Times, Sunday Times
cover picture
The cover picture, the story and all the hoopla that surrounded it made me a celebrity.
Times, Sunday Times
Even the cover picture drew criticism after some opponents suggested that she was holding a walking frame, rather than the back of a chair.
Times, Sunday Times
He took cover picture after cover picture and often found himself recording defining cultural and political moments of the 1960s.
Times, Sunday Times
The front cover picture was worth a thousand words, thank you.
Times, Sunday Times
I asked him to stand at the base, basically to symbolise his amazing abilities with his right foot, thinking it would make a great cover picture.
Times, Sunday Times
cover the face
If you encounter a grizzly bear while fishing, cover your face with your hands and lie face down on the ground.
Times, Sunday Times
After opting for the night bus, she tried to cover her face with her hand.
The Sun
Then she tried to cover her face with an extralarge purse.
The Sun
Cover her face — or, at least, her forehead.
Times, Sunday Times
But it's thick, so you don't need much to cover your face, and it absorbs easily.
Times, Sunday Times
cover the floor
Sea-grass matting covered the floor and there was a little antechamber between the bedroom and the bathroom with an elegant white armchair.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The floor is covered with thick pile cream rugs and almost the same volume of wires.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The room is sauna warm; rugs cover the floor and the air is thick with incense.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A blue tarpaulin covered the floor and was spattered with blood.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
cover the pan
Adjust the heat so the soup simmers steadily, partially cover the pan and cook for 15 minutes until carrots and split peas are tender.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Add the mussels and cover the pan.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Pour ¼ of pancake mix to thinly cover pan.
The Sun (2015)
cover the rent
Almost a million borrowers have resorted to costly payday loans to cover their rent or mortgage in the past 12 months, according to new research.
Times, Sunday Times
It's not even enough to cover my rent and bills for six months.
The Sun
Then her lawyer asked how she was going to cover the rent.
Times, Sunday Times
Nearly a million households have turned to payday lenders in the past year to cover their rent or mortgage, a housing charity said yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
At what rate of pay, how many hours and will the income be enough to cover the rent, heat, clothing and food?
The Sun
cover the surface
The amount of clay covering the surface is also less than normal.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Pour into a container, cover the surface with clingfilm and set aside.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Ninety percent of her body's surface was covered with large snails, the common tortoiseshell variety that every gardener curses.
Clive Barker COLDHEART CANYON (2001)
Then simply replace the compost and fold the flaps back down to cover the surface.
The Sun (2015)
The flatted occlusal surface was covered with nail varnish.
Mohammad reza Maleki-Pour, Farzaneh Shirani, Parvin Mirzakoochaki, Zahra Fazel Kalbasi 2012, 'Changes in Bleached Enamel Microhardness After Application of Fluoride and CPP-ACP', Journal of Islamic Dental Association of Iran
cover tightly
Cover tightly and cook for five minutes, shaking once.
The Sun
Cover tightly and store for 2-3 days or longer for a more fermented flavour.
ST
Cover tightly with aluminium foil and roast for 1½ hours.
Times,Sunday Times
Slather the fish with miso and place in a non-reactive dish or bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap.
Times, Sunday Times
Transfer to an oiled bowl, cover tightly with clingfilm (or put in a sealed polythene bag) and leave until cool enough to handle.
Times, Sunday Times
dense cover
At this season when so many birds have fallen silent, the call of the reed warbler exploding from dense cover is a welcome bonus.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It drank its fill, shook its mane, slouched off down the hill to the dense cover at the edge of the plain.
Ian St James Awards AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
They are mainly active at night and twilight, hiding in dense cover by day.
Burton, John A. Animals of the World (1993)
forest cover
Milder winters, abundant crops and increasing forest cover all help them to thrive.
Times, Sunday Times
From the reduced forest cover, sediment and fertilizer flowed into the streams—overwhelming underwater grasses that cleansed the water, and increasing nutrients that spawned the growth of microscopic algaes and planktons.
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He ignores the agricultural clearance of woodlands, including their use as fossil fuel, which, starting in neolithic times, reduced forest cover from 75 per cent to its current level.
Times, Sunday Times
It has planted 8.5 million trees in the past 25 years, taking forest cover to 20 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
Forest cover has risen steadily since.
Times, Sunday Times
front cover
On Thursday he appeared on the front cover of Time magazine.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Men are allowed to love in fiction without looking winsome or flashing on the front cover.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
On the inside front cover someone had hand-printed a title: Die Besessene - Das Buch von Anna.
Appiganesi, Lisa DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
She has since gone on to feature in high-profile ad campaigns and has appeared on the front cover of Vogue magazine.
The Sun (2016)
Picture editors play a big role here: who do we put on the front cover?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
grace the cover
You grace the cover of the iconic publication and thereafter you are doomed.
Times, Sunday Times
Quite a trick for someone who also graces the covers of tabloids and celebrity magazines.
Times, Sunday Times
While their images may grace the covers of thousands of magazines, staying in one makes a trip to the beach tricky.
Times, Sunday Times
In another life her face could have graced the covers of fashion magazines and billboards.
The Sun
He was good-looking, dated celebrities and graced the cover of fashion magazines.
Times, Sunday Times
heavy cover
Meadow voles and muskrats were found in moist areas with heavy cover and along interdunal ponds.
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Today, the river channel has contracted and the substrate has a heavy cover of sediment, overlaying much of the cobble stone riverbed.
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The wolves positioned themselves between the men and the runway, in what was described as an apparent attempt to herd them back into the heavier cover.
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ice cover
The ice cover last month of 3.5 m square miles was 750,000 square miles below normal.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Global temperatures were much higher at this time than they are today and there was no ice cover at either pole.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
A thick coat of ground ice covered 98% of the lowland ranges, almost completely blocking access to terrestrial forage.
Brage Bremset Hansen, Ronny Aanes 2012, 'Kelp and seaweed feeding by High-Arctic wild reindeer under extreme winter conditions', Polar Research
illustrate a cover
She would attach the pages together, illustrate the cover and bound the results into a book.
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She has illustrated the covers for the 10 books in the series, to critical acclaim.
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Its skeleton was also used to illustrate the covers of these books.
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Throughout this time he was also publishing comics and illustrating the covers of national and international publications.
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He also illustrated the cover art.
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insurance cover
Check their insurance cover by asking to see their builder's liability insurance certificate.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
None of the companies plans to include full insurance cover in quoted prices.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
At the time of the valuation he had been an employee of a firm that had since become insolvent and had no insurance cover.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He spent the next hour trying to invalidate the insurance cover by insisting the house wasn't fit or habitable to be a residence principale.
Dexter Petley WHITE LIES (2003)
lift a cover
It took passers-by an hour to lift the cover and squeeze the squirrel free.
Times, Sunday Times
Pet owners lift the cover off the tray to scoop, clean and change the litter.
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A tube runs down the centre, five metres off the ground, lifting the cover.
Times, Sunday Times
It was not a complicated test, it did not entail lifting the cover.
Times, Sunday Times
It costs just 23,000 to put down and then lift the covers.
The Sun
mask covers
An oxygen mask covers his mouth and nose, and his breaths are short and rapid.
Houston Chronicle
A steel mask covers the lower half of his face.
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The mask covers the aperture of the telescope.
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Her mask covers all of her head with the exception of the eyes, which are darkened, and symbolic stitches surround the mouth of the mask.
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A mask covers the head with a wig and perhaps a hat to complete the look.
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pillow covers
About the inhalers and dust mites and mattress and pillow covers.
Times, Sunday Times
In the last decade, velour has been used for pillow covers and mattress coverings.
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He himself used to sew the pillow covers and bed sheets of the patients in order to ensure an excellent quality of linen to them.
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plastic cover
He half turned, sat, and felt the concrete adamant through the thin foam mattress, its cold plastic cover.
Smith, Mitchell STONE CITY (1984)
Remove the plastic cover, get some engine cleaner and clean all around the edge of the valve cover and the top of the cylinder head.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Inside was a hypodermic syringe, the tip of the needle protected by a plastic cover.
MacNeill, Alastair CODE BREAKER (1987)
We've got photos of him in his bouncing chair in hospital, sat beneath a plastic cover to keep his environment sterile and free from germs.
The Sun (2007)
protective cover
It was found to have come from a protective cover on machinery.
Times, Sunday Times
A protective cover on the camera, made it seem like we were looking through a porthole for 40 minutes.
The Sun
I keep mine in a pot, stood out after the frosts are gone and overwintered under protective cover.
Times, Sunday Times
Seaweed deposited by early farmers provided a protective cover and added nutrients to the soil.
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He drew protective cover offered by the doctrine over the impugned amendments while manifestly holding that the impugned amendments abridged the scope of fundamental rights.
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pull off a cover
You'd hardly blame him for pulling his covers over his head and going back to sleep.
Times, Sunday Times
Both make me want to pull the covers over my head, not try to find some purpose in the endless day.
Times,Sunday Times
Pull the covers over your head and stay there all nice and snug till spring.
Times, Sunday Times
I pull the covers over me.
Times, Sunday Times
Then he pulls the cover off this.
Christianity Today
remove a cover
First, remove their cover: bricks, dead vegetation and fallen leaves, for example.
Times, Sunday Times
Remove the cover and tip it out on to a lightly floured surface.
Times, Sunday Times
Remove the cover on sunny days so that the wall can absorb some heat which will help to protect the plant at night.
The Sun
Remove the cover from the dish.
The Sun
territory covers
Its territory covers 652,000km2 sqmi, making it the 41st largest country in the world.
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The territory covers 56594km2sqmi 0, consisting of 56414km2sqmi 0 of land and 128km2sqmi 0 of water.
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Such a wide sampling of history and territory covers many disparate cultures and periods.
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The diocesan territory covers a land area of 61,266 square kilometers.
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The village lies at 216 m above sea level, the cadastral territory covers an area of 2767 ha and has over two thousand inhabitants.
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tree cover
These carnivores don't need the vegetation and the tree cover that takes so long to grow.
Times, Sunday Times
The areas chosen are rich in deer and tree cover, as lynx prefer woods and forests.
Times, Sunday Times
Most wealthy countries are increasing their tree cover.
Times, Sunday Times
All communications based on radio waves can be affected by local factors - hills, tree cover, tall buildings - even weather conditions or the building materials used for the customer's home.
Times, Sunday Times
Tree cover was previously estimated using satellite data, but the latest research combined this with observations made on the ground to produce a radically different picture.
Times, Sunday Times
under cover of darkness
Desperate, under cover of darkness, you go to a local park and cut heathy green boughs from the firs.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
After a bombardment by artillery and naval forces, armoured vehicles and troops moved in under cover of darkness.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He said he was sure that the troops would attack under the cover of darkness.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The trio escaped from the army training village under cover of darkness.
The Sun (2011)
These foxes come out only at night, under cover of darkness.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
water covers
Her arm rises up as a pulse of water covers her head.
Times, Sunday Times
Once boiling, add a pinch of salt followed by the chicken legs, ensuring that the water covers the chicken.
The Sun
Water covers a sixth of the garden.
Times, Sunday Times
But they currently have to wade 220 yards from the shore before the water covers their knees.
The Sun
Pour in the fresh measured cold water so that the water covers the chickpeas by about 2cm.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 盖子, 覆盖
Japanese: 覆い, 覆う
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