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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.
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A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm. --Is.
iv. 6.
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The highwayman has darted from his covered by the
wayside. --Prescott.
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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}.
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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.
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How covert matters may be best disclosed. --Shak.
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Whether of open war or covert guile. --Milton
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2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a
covert nook. -- Wordsworth.
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Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley.
--Bacon.
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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.
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{Covert way}, (Fort.) See {Covered way}, under {Covered}.

Syn: Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious;
concealed. See {Hidden}.
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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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