Mantle

Noun

 * 1) A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
 * 2)  Anything that covers or conceals something else.
 * 3)  The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
 * 4) The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.
 * 5)  The cerebral cortex.
 * 6)  The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
 * 7) A fireplace shelf;

Quotations

 * 1990, Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals, page 71 (where there is an illustration):
 * Before copulation in Loligo, the male swims beside an slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle. He then reaches into his mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.

Derived terms

 * assume the mantle
 * gas mantle
 * mantlepiece
 * mantle-tree
 * upper mantle

Verb

 * 1)  To cover or conceal (something).
 * 2)  To become covered or concealed.

Adjectives for Mantle
judicial; imperial; furred; motley; verdant; somber; russet; silver; curious; sable; invisible; ermine;  many-colored;  grassy; flowery; stained; autumn.

Thesaurus
aerate, apply to, arachnoid, arbor vitae, archipallium, armory, badge, badge of office, badges, baton, beat, between brain, blanch, blanket, blazonry, block, blush, bonnet, boot, brain stem, brassard, breech, button, caduceus, canopy, cap, cap and gown, cape, cerebellar hemispheres, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrum, chain, chain of office, change color, class ring, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, cockade, coif, collar, color, color up, conceal, convolution, cope, corpus callosum, corpus striatum, cover, cover up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, cream, crimson, crook, crosier, cross, cross-staff, curtain, darken, decoration, diencephalon, disguise, drape, drapery, dress, dura mater, eagle, eclipse, emblems, encircle, endbrain, ensigns, envelop, fasces, figurehead, film, fissure, flame, fleur-de-lis, flush, foam, folia, forebrain, fornix, frock, frontal lobe, froth, frown, gavel, glare, glial cells, globus pallidus, glow, glower, gnarl, gown, gray matter, grow red, growl, guise, gyrus, hammer and sickle, hanging, hat, heraldry, hide, hindbrain, hippocampus, hood, housing, hypothalamus, insignia, jacket, lapel pin, lather, lay on, lay over, lenticular nucleus, limbic lobe, little brain, livery, lobe, look black, look daggers, lower, mace, markings, mask, medal, medulla oblongata, meninges, mesencephalon, metencephalon, midbrain, mortarboard, muffle, myelencephalon, neopallium, obduce, obscure, occipital lobe, occult, old school tie, optic chiasm, overlay, overspread, pale, pall, pallium, parietal lobe, pelisse, pia mater, pin, pineal body, pink, pituitary body, pons, portfolio, put on, redden, regalia, reticular system, rhombencephalon, ring, robe, rod, rod of office, rose, rouge, scepter, school ring, scowl, screen, scum, shamrock, shawl, sheet, shelter, shield, shirt, shoe, shroud, sigillography, skull and crossbones, snap, snarl, sock, sphragistics, spit, spread over, spume, squirm with self-consciousness, staff, stammer, stocking, subthalamus, sud, suds, superimpose, superpose, surround, swastika, tartan, telencephalon, temporal lobe, thalamus, thistle, tie, truncheon, turn color, turn pale, turn red, uniform, veil, ventricle, verge, vermis, vestment, wand, wand of office, whip, whisk, white matter, whiten, wrap

Etymology
mentel:, later reborrowed from mantel:, both from  mantellum:, diminutive of mantum:, probably from Gaulish.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"m{n.t@l/}}
 * , {{SAMPA|/"m{n.t@l/}}

Noun

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 * German:


 * Icelandic: möntull
 * Korean: 망토
 * Latin: amictus
 * Macedonian: мантија
 * Russian: мантия
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish: ,


 * German:, , Umhüllung


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Latin: amictus
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish: hehkusukka,


 * German: Glühstrumpf


 * Finnish:


 * German: Hirnrinde, short:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ;
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
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 * German: Erdmantel, short:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 맨틀
 * Latin: amictus
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian: мантия
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: miehusta

Anagrams

 * lament, Lament.
 * malent
 * mantel
 * mental