Sentence examples for meaning covered from inspiring English sources

Named after the French "couvert", meaning covered, it was designed to be worn when riding.

The genus name is derived from the Greek stego meaning "covered", and stoma meaning "mouth".

The origin of the name bucintoro is obscure, but one possibility is that it is derived from the Venetian burcio, a traditional term for a lagoon vessel, and in oro, meaning covered in gold.

Or would you advise people to shelter in place, meaning cover your windows or try to go into a basement?" Though they gave no public indications that the discussion was under way — it could have started a panic — they talked about the use of trains and commercial aircraft.

The hijab, meaning "cover, curtain," can range from a floral kerchief that leaves the face exposed, to the niqab, abbaya or in Persian, chador, which covers the whole body except the face, to the burka, as worn in Afghanistan, which covers everything.

"Abacus" derives from the Hebrew ibeq, meaning to " wipe the dust" or from the Greek abax, meaning "board covered with dust", which describes the first devices used by the Babylonians.

The Old English hel belongs to a family of Germanic words meaning "to cover" or "to conceal".

The net's a bit worn out, and some of the holes are torn, meaning they cover more ground.

Mr. Derris said that Mr. Parks "works vacation relief, meaning he covers different lines on the numbered trains when people are on vacation".

It has since been given a broader meaning to cover "one who closely follows fashion," though some meanspirited anti-eliteniks use it as a synonym for "clotheshorse".

A shout is to a shout-out as a shooting is to a shootout — with the -out stretching the meaning to cover more ground, and in this case to color the sound of the shout with a note of enthusiasm rather than of anger or alarm.