cover

«cover» in Mova's school dictionary: to put something over another thing to hide or protect it — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (cover, covers, covered, covering); noun (a cover, covers; cover — shelter)

meaning for a pupil

1) To cover is to put something over another thing to hide or protect it. tree →

2) A cover is what goes over or on top, like a lid, a blanket or a book cover. tree →

3) To cover a distance is to travel it. tree →

4) To cover is also to be enough for, like money that covers the cost. tree →

5) To take cover is to hide somewhere safe. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: areas to be covered by tiles, paint or grass (tiles = area ÷ area of one tile); also distances covered or the cover of a book; science: animals use cover to hide; everyday life: cover your mouth when you cough, cover the food; safety: take cover in a storm

examples

• How many tiles does it take to cover the floor? tree →
• One can of paint covers 10 square meters. tree →
• The car covers 60 miles in an hour. tree →
• She covers 5 books with paper. tree →
• Cover your mouth when you cough. tree →
• Snow covered the ground. tree →
• The book has a red cover. tree →
• We took cover from the rain under a tree. tree →
• Will 20 dollars cover the cost? tree →
• And without farther hesitation she lifted the cover. tree →

note

Cover with tiles or paint is about area: tiles = area ÷ area of one tile. «Covers 60 miles» is a distance and a speed. Trap: a rate like «one can covers 10 m²» means divide the area by 10.

In the corpora

• The minimum payment barely covers the interest, so paying only the minimum keeps a debt going for years.
• Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.
• Asking a bot for practice questions is a smart way to revise, if they cover the right topics.
• Recorder players cover the holes with the soft, flat pads of their fingers, because hard fingertips leave gaps that make squeaks.
• A cover is a song written by someone else; an original is one the band wrote itself.

Trees and pragmatics

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