Mantle vs. Coat

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.
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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.
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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
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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