mantle

a cloak; something that conceals: the mantle of darkness
Not to be confused with:mantel – facing of a fireplace; a shelf above: Put the clock on the mantel.

mantlecutaway of the earth

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M0089200 (măn′tl)n.1. A loose sleeveless coat worn over outer garments; a cloak.2. Something that covers, envelops, or conceals: "On a summer night ... a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads" (John Dollard).3. The role or appearance of an authoritative or important person: "a Carlylean conviction that in modern society a poet was obligated to assume the mantle of a prophet" (Richard D. Altick).4. Variant of mantel.5. The outer covering of a wall.6. A zone of hot gases around a flame.7. A device in gas lamps consisting of a sheath of threads that gives off brilliant illumination when heated by the flame.8. Anatomy The cerebral cortex.9. Geology The zone of the earth between the crust and the core.10. The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace above the hearth.11. The shoulder feathers, upper back, and sometimes the wings of a bird when differently colored from the rest of the body.12. a. A fold or pair of folds of the body wall that covers the internal organs and typically secretes the substance that forms the shell in mollusks and brachiopods.b. The soft outer wall lining the shell of a tunicate or barnacle.v. man·tled, man·tling, man·tles v.tr.1. To cover with a mantle.2. To cover with something that acts like a mantle; cover, envelop, or conceal: "when the land was mantled in forest and prowled by lions, leopards, and wolves" (David Campbell).v.intr.1. To spread or become extended over a surface.2. To become covered with a coating, as scum or froth on the surface of a liquid.3. To blush: cheeks mantling with embarrassment.

[Middle English, from Old English mentel and from Old French mantel, both from Latin mantellum.]

mantle

(ˈmæntəl) n1. (Clothing & Fashion) archaic a loose wrap or cloak2. such a garment regarded as a symbol of someone's power or authority: he assumed his father's mantle. 3. anything that covers completely or envelops: a mantle of snow. 4. (General Engineering) a small dome-shaped or cylindrical mesh impregnated with cerium or thorium nitrates, used to increase illumination in a gas or oil lamp5. (Zoology) zoology a. a protective layer of epidermis in molluscs that secretes a substance forming the shellb. a similar structure in brachiopods6. (Zoology) ornithol the feathers of the folded wings and back, esp when these are of a different colour from the remaining feathers7. (Geological Science) geology the part of the earth between the crust and the core, accounting for more than 82% of the earth's volume (but only 68% of its mass) and thought to be composed largely of peridotite. See also asthenosphere8. (Architecture) a less common spelling of mantel9. (Anatomy) anatomy another word for pallium³10. (Art Terms) a clay mould formed around a wax model which is subsequently melted outvb11. (tr) to envelop or supply with a mantle12. to spread over or become spread over: the trees were mantled with snow. 13. (tr) (of the face, cheeks) to become suffused with blood; flush14. (Falconry) (intr) falconry (of a hawk or falcon) to spread the wings and tail over food[C13: via Old French from Latin mantellum, diminutive of mantum cloak]

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n., v. -tled, -tling. n. 1. a long, loose, capelike garment; sleeveless cloak. 2. something that covers, envelops, or conceals: the mantle of darkness. 3. the portion of the earth, about 1800 mi. (2900 km) thick, between the crust and the core. 4. an outgrowth of the body wall in mollusks and brachiopods that lines the inner surface of the shell valves and secretes a shell-forming substance. 5. an incombustible hood that becomes incandescent and gives off a brilliant light when placed around a flame. 6. the back, scapular, and inner wing plumage of a bird. 7. mantel. v.t. 8. to cover with or as if with a mantle; envelop; conceal. v.i. 9. to overspread a surface. 10. to flush; blush. 11. to become covered with a coating, as foam. [1200–50; Middle English mantel < Anglo-French, Old French mantel < Latin mantellum cloak]

Man•tle

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n. Mickey (Charles), 1931–95, U.S. baseball player.

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(măn′tl)1. The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core. It consists mainly of silicate minerals and has an upper, partially molten part and a lower, solid part. The upper mantle is the source of magma and volcanic lava.2. The layer of soft tissue that covers the body of a clam, oyster, or other mollusk and secretes the material that forms the shell.

Mantle

a covering; a quantity of furs of 30 to 100, depending on the size of the skins.Examples: mantle of darkness; of fox skins, 1545; of furs, 1490; of ivy, 1829; of meekness, 1526; of deep obscurity, 1526; of prudence, 1430; of silence; of skins; of snow; of white kid, 1549.

mantle

Past participle: mantled
Gerund: mantling

Imperative
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Present
I mantle
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we mantle
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Preterite
I mantled
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Present Continuous
I am mantling
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Present Perfect
I have mantled
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Past Continuous
I was mantling
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Past Perfect
I had mantled
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Future
I will mantle
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Future Perfect
I will have mantled
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Future Continuous
I will be mantling
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Present Perfect Continuous
I have been mantling
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Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been mantling
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he/she/it will have been mantling
we will have been mantling
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Past Perfect Continuous
I had been mantling
you had been mantling
he/she/it had been mantling
we had been mantling
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Conditional
I would mantle
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Past Conditional
I would have mantled
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mantle

1. A clay mold around a wax model.2. The dense, hot rock layer, 1800 mi (2900 km) thick, below the crust. Some parts of it are semi-molten and able to flow.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	mantle - the cloak as a symbol of authority; "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders"symbol - an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance
	2.	Mantle - United States baseball player (1931-1997)Mickey Charles Mantle, Mickey Mantle
	3.	mantle - the layer of the earth between the crust and the corelayer - a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under anothergeosphere, lithosphere - the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantlelower mantle - the deeper part of the mantleupper mantle - the upper part of the mantle
	4.	mantle - anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow"blanketcovering, natural covering, cover - a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"
	5.	mantle - (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shellpalliumepidermis, cuticle - the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrateszoological science, zoology - the branch of biology that studies animals
	6.	mantle - shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece"chimneypiece, mantel, mantelpiece, mantlepiecefireplace, hearth, open fireplace - an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"shelf - a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects
	7.	mantle - hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)curtain, drape, drapery, pallscreen, blind - a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"drop cloth, drop curtain, drop - a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background sceneryeyelet, eyehole - a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or barfestoon - a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curvesfrontal - a drapery that covers the front of an altarfurnishing - (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livableportiere - a heavy curtain hung across a doorwayshower curtain - a curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower areatheater curtain, theatre curtain - a hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience; rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance
	8.	mantle - a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shortercapechlamys - a short mantle or cape fastened at the shoulder; worn by men in ancient Greececloak - a loose outer garmentmantelet, mantilla - short cape worn by womenpelisse - a sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with furtippet - a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten
Verb	1.	mantle - spread over a surface, like a mantlediffuse, fan out, spread out, spread - move outward; "The soldiers fanned out"
	2.	mantle - cover like a mantle; "The ivy mantles the building"spread over, cover - form a cover over; "The grass covered the grave"

mantle

noun1. role, job, position, post, responsibility, task, duty, function, capacity, burden, onus She has the intellectual form to take up the mantle of leadership.2. covering, cover, screen, cloud, curtain, envelope, blanket, veil, shroud, canopy, pall The park looked grim under a mantle of soot and ash.3. cloak, wrap, cape, hood, shawl flaxen hair that hung round her shoulders like a silken mantleverb1. cover, hide, blanket, cloud, wrap, screen, mask, disguise, veil, cloak, shroud, envelop, overspread Many of the peaks were already mantled with snow.

mantle

verb1. To cover as if with clothes:cloak, clothe, drape, robe.2. To become red in the face:blush, color, crimson, flush, glow, redden.

Translations

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mantle,

portion of the earthearth,
in geology and astronomy, 3rd planet of the solar system and the 5th largest, the only planet definitely known to support life. Gravitational forces have molded the earth, like all celestial bodies, into a spherical shape.
..... Click the link for more information. 's interior lying beneath the crust and above the core. No direct observation of the mantle, or its upper boundary, has been made; its boundaries have been determined solely by abrupt changes in the velocities and character of seismic waves passing through the earth's interior (see seismologyseismology
, scientific study of earthquakes and related phenomena, including the propagation of waves and shocks on or within the earth by natural or artificially generated seismic signals.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Samples of the upper mantle may be provided by some volcanic eruptions in ocean areas, e.g., the Hawaiian Islands. The continental and ocean crusts, along with part of the solid upper mantle, make up the lithospherelithosphere
, brittle uppermost shell of the earth, broken into a number of tectonic plates. The lithosphere consists of the heavy oceanic and lighter continental crusts, and the uppermost portion of the mantle.
..... Click the link for more information. to a depth of about 62 mi (100 km). Within the lithosphere is the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho, considered to be the mantle's upper surface, at depths ranging from 4 to 43 mi (7 to 70 km). Analysis of seismic waves indicates that rocks below the Moho are less rigid and slightly more dense than rocks making up the crust. A zone of low seismic velocity and rigidity just below the lithosphere, called the asthenosphereasthenosphere
, region in the upper mantle of the earth's interior, characterized by low-density, semiplastic (or partially molten) rock material chemically similar to the overlying lithosphere.
..... Click the link for more information. , is present in the upper part of the mantle, from 62 mi (100 km) to 156 mi (250 km). Its presence is of critical importance to plate tectonicsplate tectonics,
theory that unifies many of the features and characteristics of continental drift and seafloor spreading into a coherent model and has revolutionized geologists' understanding of continents, ocean basins, mountains, and earth history.
..... Click the link for more information. . The mantle continues to the Gutenberg discontinuity at the liquid outer core, with the base of the mantle located about 1,800 mi (2,900 km) below the earth's surface. The entire mantle constitutes about 84% of the earth by volume. Its composition is thought to be similar to peridotite, an igneous rock of mostly magnesium-rich silicate.

mantle

The zone within a planet or satellite, lying below the crust. See also Earth.

Mantle

one of the shells of the earth that lies directly under the earth’s crust. The mantle is isolated from the crust by the Mohorovičić discontinuity, which is found under the continents at a depth of 20 to 80 km (on the average, 35 km) and under the oceans at a depth of 11 to 15 km below the water’s surface. The distribution speed of seismic waves (used as an oblique means of studying the internal structure of the earth), upon crossing from the crust to the mantle, increases abruptly from about 7 to 8 km per sec. The base of the mantle is believed to lie at a depth of 900 km (where the mantle is divided into upper and lower parts) or at a depth of 400 km (where it is divided into upper, middle, and lower parts). The zone between 400 and 900 km deep is called the Golitsyn layer.

The mantle is probably made of granite peridotites, with mixtures in the upper parts of eclogites. An important characteristic of the structure of the mantle is the presence of a zone of reduced seismic wave speed. There are differences in the structure of the mantle under the different tectonic zones—for example, under geosynclines and platforms. Processes develop in the mantle that are the sources of tectonic, magmatic, and metamorphic phenomena in the earth’s crust. The mantle is accorded an important role in many tectonic hypotheses. For example, it has been suggested that the earth’s crust was formed by a process of smelting from the substance of the mantle and that tectonic movements are connected with movements in the mantle.

REFERENCES

Magnitskii, V. A. Vnutrennee stroenie i fizika Zemli. Moscow, 1965.
Belousov, V. V. Zemnaia kora i verkhniaia mantiia materikov. Moscow, 1966.
Belousov, V. V. Zemnaia kora i verkhniaia mantiia okeanov. Moscow, 1968.

V. V. BELOUSOV

Mantle

(in biology). (1) A fold in the skin of certain invertebrate animals (mollusks, brachiopods, and barnacles) that encloses the body of the animal completely or in part.

In most cases the external skeleton of the animal is secreted by the mantle. Between the body and the mantle is the mantle cavity, which is connected to the outside environment and into which the kidneys, sexual glands, and rectum open. In the mantle cavity are the respiratory organs (gills) and certain sense organs. In aquatic animals the mantle is usually lined with ciliated epithelium; the beating of the cilia creates a current of water through the mantle cavity. This current delivers oxygen and food particles and carries off metabolic products. In some gastropod mollusks there are networks of blood vessels in the walls of the mantle, forming a kind of “lung.” In cephalopod mollusks the mantle is muscular and is used to expel a stream of water through a special funnel, giving the animal jet propulsion.

(2) The mantle, or tunica, is part of the formative tissue (meristem) in the growing point (apex) of the stem of plants. The inner layers of mantle cells divide both perpendicularly to the surface of the apex, that is, anticlinally, and parallel to the surface of the apex, that is, periclinally (in this case the inner part of the apical cells is called the corpus). Subsequently, the epidermis and primary cortex differentiate from the mantle, and the axis cylinder differentiates from the corpus.

mantle

[′mant·əl] (anatomy) Collectively, the convolutions, corpus callosum, and fornix of the brain. (biology) An enveloping layer, as the external body wall lining the shell of many invertebrates, or the external meristematic layers in a stem apex. (engineering) A lacelike hood or envelope (sack) of refractory material which, when positioned over a flame and heated to incandescence, gives light. (geology) The intermediate shell zone of the earth below the crust and above the core (to a depth of 2160 miles or 3480 kilometers). (metallurgy) That part of the outer wall and casing of a blast furnace located above the hearth. (vertebrate zoology) The back and wing plumage of a bird if distinguished from the rest of the plumage by a uniform color.

mantle

1. Same as mantel. 2. The outer covering of a wall which differs from the material of the inner surface.

mantle

1. Chemistry a small dome-shaped or cylindrical mesh impregnated with cerium or thorium nitrates, used to increase illumination in a gas or oil lamp 2. Zoologya. a protective layer of epidermis in molluscs that secretes a substance forming the shell b. a similar structure in brachiopods 3. Ornithol the feathers of the folded wings and back, esp when these are of a different colour from the remaining feathers 4. Geology the part of the earth between the crust and the core, accounting for more than 82% of the earth's volume (but only 68% of its mass) and thought to be composed largely of peridotite 5. a less common spelling of mantel6. Anatomy another word for pallium7. a clay mould formed around a wax model which is subsequently melted out

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noun role

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noun covering

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noun cloak

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verb cover

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verb to cover as if with clothes

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verb to become red in the face

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noun the cloak as a symbol of authority

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noun United States baseball player (1931-1997)

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noun the layer of the earth between the crust and the core

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noun anything that covers

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noun (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell

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noun shelf that projects from wall above fireplace

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noun hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

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noun a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

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verb spread over a surface, like a mantle

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