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MANTLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

Synonyms:

cape; mantle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mantle" is a kind of...):

cloak (a loose outer garment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mantle"):

chlamys (a short mantle or cape fastened at the shoulder; worn by men in ancient Greece)

mantelet; mantilla (short cape worn by women)

pelisse (a sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur)

tippet (a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

curtain; drape; drapery; mantle; pall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mantle" is a kind of...):

blind; screen (a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight)

furnishing ((usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable)

Meronyms (parts of "mantle"):

eyehole; eyelet (a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mantle"):

drop; drop cloth; drop curtain (a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery)

festoon (a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves)

frontal (a drapery that covers the front of an altar)

portiere (a heavy curtain hung across a doorway)

shower curtain (a curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower area)

theater curtain; theatre curtain (a hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience; rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace

Synonyms:

chimneypiece; mantel; mantelpiece; mantle; mantlepiece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mantle" is a kind of...):

shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)

Holonyms ("mantle" is a part of...):

fireplace; hearth; open fireplace (an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

mantle; pallium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("mantle" is a kind of...):

cuticle; epidermis (the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates)

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The cloak as a symbol of authority

Example:

place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mantle" is a kind of...):

symbol (an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Anything that covers

Example:

there was a blanket of snow

Synonyms:

blanket; mantle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("mantle" is a kind of...):

cover; covering; natural covering (a natural object that covers or envelops)

Derivation:

mantle (cover like a mantle)

mantle (spread over a surface, like a mantle)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The layer of the earth between the crust and the core

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("mantle" is a kind of...):

layer (a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another)

Meronyms (parts of "mantle"):

lower mantle (the deeper part of the mantle)

upper mantle (the upper part of the mantle)

Holonyms ("mantle" is a part of...):

geosphere; lithosphere (the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle)

Sense 8

Meaning:

United States baseball player (1931-1997)

Synonyms:

Mantle; Mickey Charles Mantle; Mickey Mantle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover like a mantle

Example:

The ivy mantles the building

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "mantle" is one way to...):

cover; spread over (form a cover over)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

mantle (anything that covers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spread over a surface, like a mantle

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "mantle" is one way to...):

diffuse; fan out; spread; spread out (move outward)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

mantle (anything that covers)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Representative examples include Burkitt lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, and angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma.

(Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Again Ruth nodded, and again a blush mantled her face.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A regimen consisting of fludarabine and cyclophosphamide used as initial treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL); also used for the treatment of relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

(FC Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

An aggressive mantle cell lymphoma characterized by the presence of pleomorphic neoplastic B-lymphocytes.

(Pleomorphic Variant Mantle Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

“Come with me, my honey-bird!” cried a third, plucking at the girl's mantle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A white hat and blue feather, a muslin dress to match, and the loveliest mantle you ever saw.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A regimen consisting of pentostatin, cyclophosphamide and rituximab used to treat relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

(PCR Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

The woman, without a word, had raised her veil and dropped the mantle from her chin.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But finding that material from the mantle's transition zone - some 250 to 400 miles beneath our planet's crust - can cause volcanoes to form is new to geologists.

(Scientists discover a new way volcanoes form, NSF)

But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)