Mantle vs. Coat: What's the Difference?

Mantle and Coat Definitions

Mantle

A loose sleeveless coat worn over outer garments; a cloak.

Coat

A sleeved outer garment extending from the shoulders to the waist or below.

Mantle

Something that covers, envelops, or conceals:"On a summer night ... a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads"(John Dollard).

Coat

See suit coat.

Mantle

The role or appearance of an authoritative or important person:"a Carlylean conviction that in modern society a poet was obligated to assume the mantle of a prophet"(Richard D. Altick).

Coat

The hair or fur of an animal

A dog with a short coat.

Mantle

Variant ofmantel.

Coat

The outer covering of a biological structure or organ

A seed coat.

Mantle

The outer covering of a wall.

Coat

The outer covering of a virus.

Mantle

A zone of hot gases around a flame.

Coat

A layer of material covering something else; a coating

A second coat of paint.

Mantle

A device in gas lamps consisting of a sheath of threads that gives off brilliant illumination when heated by the flame.

Coat

To provide or cover with a coat.

Mantle

(Anatomy)The cerebral cortex.

Coat

To cover with a layer

Dust coated the table. I coated the wall with paint.

Mantle

(Geology)The zone of the earth between the crust and the core.

Coat

(countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.^Wp

Mantle

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace above the hearth.

Coat

(countable) A covering of material, such as paint.^Wp

Mantle

The shoulder feathers, upper back, and sometimes the wings of a bird when differently colored from the rest of the body.

Coat

(countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.^Wp

When the dog shed its coat, it left hair all over the furniture and the carpet.

Mantle

A fold or pair of folds of the body wall that covers the internal organs and typically secretes the substance that forms the shell in mollusks and brachiopods.

Coat

Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).

Mantle

The soft outer wall lining the shell of a tunicate or barnacle.

Coat

(obsolete) A petticoat.

Mantle

To cover with a mantle.

Coat

The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.

Mantle

To cover with something that acts like a mantle; cover, envelop, or conceal:"when the land was mantled in forest and prowled by lions, leopards, and wolves"(David Campbell).

Coat

A coat of arms.^Wp

Mantle

To spread or become extended over a surface.

Coat

A coat card.

Mantle

To become covered with a coating, as scum or froth on the surface of a liquid.

Coat

(transitive) To cover with a coating of some material.

The frying pan was coated with a layer of non-stick material, making it easier to wash.

Mantle

To blush:cheeks mantling with embarrassment.

Coat

(transitive) To cover like a coat.

Mantle

A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. Compare mantum.

Coat

To clothe.

Mantle

(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.

At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.

The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.

Coat

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

Let eachHis adamantine coat gird well.

Mantle

(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.

Coat

A petticoat.

Mantle

(malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.

Coat

The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.

Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.

She was sought by spirits of richest coat.

Mantle

(ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

Coat

An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.

Fruit of all kinds, in coatRough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.

Mantle

The zone of hot gases around a flame.

Coat

A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varnish.

Mantle

A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.

Coat

Same as Coat of arms. See below.

Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight,Or tear the lions out of England's coat.

Mantle

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

Coat

A coat card. See below.

Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.

Mantle

A penstock for a water wheel.

Coat

To cover with a coat or outer garment.

Mantle

(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.

Coat

To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.

Mantle

(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.

Coat

An outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors

Mantle

A fireplace shelf; mantel

Coat

A thin layer covering something;

A second coat of paint

Mantle

(heraldry) A mantling.

Coat

Growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal

Mantle

(transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.

Coat

Put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface;

Coat the cake with chocolate

Mantle

(intransitive) To become covered or concealed. en

Coat

Cover or provide with a coat

Mantle

(intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).

Coat

Form a coat over;

Dirt had coated her face

Mantle

To climb over or onto something.

Mantle

(falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.

Mantle

(falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.

Mantle

A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak.

[The] children are clothed with mantles of satin.

The green mantle of the standing pool.

Now Nature hangs her mantle greenOn every blooming tree.

Mantle

Same as Mantling.

Mantle

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.

Mantle

A mantel. See Mantel.

Mantle

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

Mantle

A penstock for a water wheel.

Mantle

The highly viscous shell of hot semisolid rock, about 1800 miles thick, lying under the crust of the Earth and above the core. Also, by analogy, a similar shell on any other planet.

Mantle

To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.

Mantle

To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; - said of hawks. Also used figuratively.

Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch.

Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew.

My frail fancy fed with full delight.Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.

Mantle

To spread out; - said of wings.

The swan, with arched neckBetween her white wings mantling proudly, rows.

Mantle

To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.

Though mantled in her cheek the blood.

Mantle

To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.

There is a sort of men whose visagesDo cream and mantle like a standing pond.

Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm.

Mantle

The cloak as a symbol of authority;

Place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders

Mantle

United States baseball player (1931-1997)

Mantle

The layer of the earth between the crust and the core

Mantle

Anything that covers;

There was a blanket of snow

Mantle

(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell

Mantle

Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace;

In England they call a mantel a chimneypiece

Mantle

Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

Mantle

A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

Mantle

Spread over a surface, like a mantle

Mantle

Cover like a mantle;

The ivy mantles the building

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