Dictionary Entry
mantle
mantle is a 6-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 23 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
- 2noun
Same as Mantling.
- 3noun
The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.
- 4noun
Any free, outer membrane.
- 5noun
The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
- 6noun
A mantel. See Mantel.
- 7noun
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
- 8noun
A penstock for a water wheel.
- 9transitive verb
To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.
- 10intransitive verb
To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
- 11intransitive verb
To spread out; -- said of wings.
- 12intransitive verb
To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
- 13intransitive verb
To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
- 14noun
a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
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- 15noun
hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- 16noun
shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
"in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece"
- 17noun
(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
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- 18noun
the cloak as a symbol of authority
"place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders"
- 19noun
anything that covers
"there was a blanket of snow"
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- 20noun
the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
- 21noun
United States baseball player (1931-1997)
- 22verb
cover like a mantle
"The ivy mantles the building"
- 23verb
spread over a surface, like a mantle
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