cloak

«cloak» in Mova's school dictionary: A loose coat without sleeves that hangs from the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cloak, cloaks); verb (cloak, cloaks, cloaked, cloaking)

meaning for a pupil

1) A loose coat without sleeves that hangs from the shoulders and is fastened at the neck. tree →

2) Something that covers or hides: «under a cloak of darkness». tree →

3) (verb) To cover or hide something: «The hills were cloaked in mist.» tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories cloaks are worn by wizards, knights, heroes and villains; an invisibility cloak hides you. In history lessons Romans and medieval people wore cloaks. «Cloak-and-dagger» means secret spy business. A «cloakroom» is where you leave coats. Phrases: «under the cloak of», «cloaked in mystery».

examples

• The wizard swirled his long black cloak. tree →
• The thieves escaped under cloak of darkness. tree →
• The mountains were cloaked in fog. tree →
• Little Red Riding Hood wore a red cloak with a hood. tree →
• Hang your coats in the cloakroom. tree →
• It was a cloak-and-dagger mission. tree →
• He wore a bearskin dress and cloak. tree →

note

Rhymes with «oak». Not a «clock». A cape is similar but usually shorter. Countable.

In the corpora

• the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles;
• For every boot stamped with fierceness, and every cloak rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cloak» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.