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covert 音標拼音: [k'ovɚt] a. 隱蔽的,偷偷摸摸的,隱密的
n. 樹叢,隱藏處 隱蔽的,偷偷摸摸的,隱密的樹叢,隱藏處 covert adj 1: secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; " covert actions by the CIA"; " covert funding for the rebels" [ ant: { open}, { overt}] 2: ( of a wife) being under the protection of her husband; " a woman covert" n 1: a flock of coots 2: a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; " a screen of trees afforded privacy"; " under cover of darkness"; " the brush provided a covert for game"; " the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background" [ synonym: { screen}, { cover}, { covert}, { concealment}] Covert \ Cov" ert\, n. [ OF. See { Covert}, a.] 1. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense. [ 1913 Webster] A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm. -- Is. iv. 6. [ 1913 Webster] The highwayman has darted from his covered by the wayside. -- Prescott. [ 1913 Webster] 2. [ Cf. F. couverte.] ( Zool.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of { Bird}. [ 1913 Webster]
Covert \ Cov" ert\ ( k? v"? rt), a. [ OF. covert, F. couvert, p. p. of couvrir. See { Cover}, v. t.] 1. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. [ 1913 Webster] How covert matters may be best disclosed. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Whether of open war or covert guile. -- Milton [ 1913 Webster] 2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook. -- Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster] Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Law) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband. [ 1913 Webster] { Covert way}, ( Fort.) See { Covered way}, under { Covered}. Syn: Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious; concealed. See { Hidden}. [ 1913 Webster] 224 Moby Thesaurus words for " covert": abri, abstruse, air- raid shelter, armored, asylum, back- door, backstairs, beclouded, between the lines, blanket, blind, bolt- hole, bomb shelter, bombproof, boscage, bosket, brake, bunker, buried, burrow, by stealth, cache, camouflaged, canebrake, cased, cave, ceiled, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, clandestine, cloak, cloaked, close, clouded, coat, coated, concealed, concealment, coped, coppice, copse, copsewood, corner, couch, cover, coverage, covered, covering, covertly, coverture, cowl, cowled, cowling, cranny, cryptic, cubby, cubbyhole, curtain, curtained, cyclone cellar, dark corner, delitescent, den, disguised, dormant, drape, drapery, dugout, earth, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, esoteric, fallout shelter, feather, feathers, feline, filmed, floored, form, foxhole, frith, funk hole, furtive, furtively, guarded, guise, hackle, hanging, harbor, harborage, haven, hibernating, hid, hidden, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hidlings, hole, hole- and- corner, hood, hooded, housed, housing, hugger- mugger, hush- hush, in a cloud, in a fog, in camera, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incommunicado, lair, latent, lodge, loricate, loricated, lurking, mail, mantle, mantled, mask, masked, mew, motte, muffled, mysterious, mystic, niche, nook, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, occulted, packaged, pall, paved, plumage, port, possible, potential, privately, privy, quiet, recess, recondite, refuge, retreat, roofed- in, run, safety zone, sanctuary, screen, screened, scummed, secluded, secluse, secret, secret place, sequestered, sheathed, shelled, shelter, shield, shielded, shifty, shroud, shrouded, skulking, sleeping, slinking, slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, speculum, stash, stealthily, stealthy, storm cave, storm cellar, sub rosa, submerged, surreptitious, surreptitiously, swathed, tented, thicket, thickset, trench, tunnel, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under the surface, under wraps, under- the- counter, under- the- table, undercover, undercovert, underground, underhand, underhanded, underlying, unknown, unmanifested, unobtrusive, veil, veiled, vestment, virtual, walled, walled- in, wrapped, wrapped in clouds |
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