A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperiō, from co- + operiō. Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bithecchen (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan), Middle English helen (from Old English helan), Middle English wreon (from Old English wreon), Middle English hodren (from Low German hudren).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognatecovert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again,” the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir ("to cover").
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