English English Dictionary

cover in English:

1. hide

Please hide the blueberry jam where Takako can't see it.

You can run, but you can't hide.

My children always hide from me, but it’s easy to find them.

hide and seek

Hide and seek / I count to three / Winter has come

The sorcerer disguises himself as a beast, he wears a hide over his head and walks around town. It's my daddy who told me that.

The big promotion of that company's stock was just a cover-up to hide their impending bankruptcy.

At the same time, he didn't hide his fears and doubts, but tried hard to keep his calm and rationality in facing every difficulty.

I shall hide the key so that you cannot open the suitcase.

The reason our hair is brown is that it enabled our monkey ancestors to hide amongst the coconuts.

During the US presidential election of 2004, the candidate John Kerry had to hide that he spoke French.

You can hide wherever you wish; I will still be able to find you.

my neighbours want to hide illegal substances in my house

Sitting in her panther hide chair, the young woman, clad in red lingerie, was reading aloud a book titled "The Black Princess".

If we hide a part of the body, it's to better draw attention towards it.

2. to report the details of an event for a newspaper or a television or radio programme

English word "cover"(to report the details of an event for a newspaper or a television or radio programme) occurs in sets:

28. How tabloids work
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3. to put something over something else

English word "cover"(to put something over something else) occurs in sets:

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4. a

It's a surprise.

Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.

If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.

He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools.

Your words of encouragement meant a lot to me.

Your dream of becoming a baseball player will come true if you try hard.

Once you skip a lesson, it's hard to catch up with your classmates.

The policeman talked to the children in as friendly a manner as he could.

Hypothetically a person can live a perfect life without sinning.

He is a primary school teacher, so he is used to dealing with children.

In addition to taking the regular tests, we have to hand in a long essay.

Will it be necessary for us to buy a book for this class?

Who can read the heroic deeds of brave men without a feeling of respect and admiration?

5. put something over an object in order to cover it

English word "cover"(put something over an object in order to cover it) occurs in sets:

Most common verbs 101 - 150

6. discovered

Columbus discovered America.

Mathematics is the part of science you could continue to do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered the universe was gone.

Christopher Columbus once discovered an entire ship of deceased sailors... and politely ignored it.

Mountains in the ocean and even whole ranges are still being discovered, and most of them have not yet been explored in detail.

The Prime Minister tried to cover up the scandal, but that just made it worse when the newspapers discovered the truth.

Today I discovered that there's a movie called "The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!"

Columbus's Law of Discovery states: If you discovered something BEFORE Christopher Columbus, then what you discovered does not exist.

Exploring and populating the newly discovered continent happened over the course of a couple of centuries.

While looking at the flowers I thought suddenly that humans too had a good side. It's humans who discovered the beauty of flowers and it's also humans who can appreciate them.

If I discovered my best friend's boyfriend kissing someone else, I'd kill him that very second.

He discovered a vegetarian restaurant called the central where he enjoyed the food

The treatment's acceptability plummeted by nearly 96% that year after researchers discovered disfiguring side effects.

People often laud Christopher Columbus for all the lands that he discovered, but most are completely unaware of his numerous under-the-sea discoveries.

I also think that if the Spanish hadn't discovered Latin America, others would have done it shortly after they did.

While at the fabric store, a small boy discovered large rolls of uncut fabric, which he unrolled and hid under, cackling like twelve squirrels.

English word "cover"(discovered) occurs in sets:

Word Formation (Year 3)

7. cover

the layers of fabric that cover a bed; the cloth material that covers a bed and that keep one warm * When my husband sleeps, he always steals the covers and then I get so cold at night!

cover the dialogue

M-my goodness!? Cover-up! Cover yourself up!

At first, we could make ends meet, but as it continued we became unable to cover our expenses.

In particular, it is customary for actual examples of use of the harmonic mean to generally cover "average speed," and explain no further than that.

Our monthly income has to cover food, rent, clothing, transportation, and so on.

Put a cover in this pot or else the water will spill all over the place.

The Oprah Winfrey Book Club logo on the front cover of a novel is now enough to ensure huge sales.

The Prime Minister tried to cover up the scandal, but that just made it worse when the newspapers discovered the truth.

In the long summer days she sat in the sun and watched the trees cover themselves with leaves, and the white daisies cover the hill.

A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.

My friends did a great cover of that Michael Jackson song last night.

cover with blanket, cover 700km, cover large area, snow covered the trees, cover the cost

Tom covered his face / I can't cover for you anymore / The floor was covered with dust

English word "cover"(cover) occurs in sets:

101 - 200 verbos

8. discover

Everyone was very surprised to discover that the slave girl was in reality a princess.

Columbus discovered America.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Don't use "discover" when you mean "invent".

Discover all the services and advantages of first class.

If you discover any problems on Tatoeba, you should go ahead and blame Sysko.

His crew members often complained of Christopher Columbus's hogging of their vessel's Wifi connection to play online games, but he denied these accusations with indignation, claiming that he was researching faraway lands that they had yet to discover.

I have read a good many books to discover what the authorities had to say that made the matter a little plainer.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.

It was discovered that he didn't pay taxes and he ended up in jail.

Many people are keen to discover more about their family history.

The role of the historian is less to discover and catalog documents than to interpret and explain them.

English word "cover"(discover) occurs in sets:

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9. coverage

Some 34 million Americans have no health coverage at all.

Do you think BBC is objective in their coverage?

coverage of the Olympics

The TV will show the complete coverage of the Olympic Games opening ceremony.

My insurance coverage is too limited, so I guess I'll just have to live with my arm bones jutting out of my skin.

Your top does not provide enough midriff coverage, young lady.

Much of the riots' coverage was taken from the cell phones of passersby, saving local news outlets valuable film which they would later use for banal "human" "interest" "stories."

Do you think one can believe what's written in the newest coverage of Prime Minister's amendments?

to purchase this coverage

What types of coverage are available?

That is now about $11,000 a year for family coverage.

The coverage of this radio is very poor.

There was a lot of news coverage around the world about the case.

Mobile phone coverage is improving all the time, as more and more people use mobile phones.

The squadron encountered an ambush and scrambled for coverage.

10. overlay

... technology, Akamai with its overlay routing network, all of...

By 1969 the debate over virtual memory for commercial computers was over. An IBM research team led by David Sayre showed that their virtual memory overlay system consistently worked better than the best manually controlled systems.

11. guardian

They have been the guardians of the secret for generations.

He considers himself a guardian of moral standards.

angel guardian

Legal guardians are individuals that have legal authority to care for another person.

Any person under 16 who is caught in the centre of town without a parent or adult guardian could go to jail for three months or pay a £2,500 fine.

Her father named you as guardian in his will.

He became the child’s guardian when her parents died.

John acts like Helen's guardian.

I regard myself as your guardian.

Christopher Columbus once fought Cerberus, the three-headed guardian of the underworld, with nothing but his hat.