covered
part of speech
adjective (covered); verb (cover, covers, covered, covering)
meaning for a pupil
1) Covered means having something over it or on it. A covered pool has a sheet on top. tree →
2) Covered is the past of cover. tree →
3) «Covered in» means having a lot of something all over. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: an area or distance already done, or the part covered; «covered 30 miles» is distance travelled; the rest = total − covered; fractions of an area covered; everyday life: covered in mud, a covered bridge; science: most of Earth is covered by water
examples
- The floor is covered with 48 tiles. tree →
- Half the field is covered in snow. tree →
- He covered 30 miles by noon. tree →
- How much of the wall is covered so far? tree →
- The dog came back covered in mud. tree →
- About 70 out of 100 parts of Earth are covered by water. tree →
- We walked across a covered bridge. tree →
- The teacher covered fractions this week. tree →
- The sharp winds blew over the snow-covered fields. tree →
note
Says a part is done: the rest is total minus covered. Trap: «half covered» is a fraction of the whole area, not of the part left.
In the corpora
- Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.
- Shark skin is covered in tiny tooth-like scales called dermal denticles that help water flow smoothly, and some swimsuits copy them.
- Glyptodonts were armadillo relatives as big as a small car, covered in a bony shell that protected them from hunters such as Smilodon.
- A snail eats with a ribbon covered in thousands of tiny teeth that scrapes food like a file.
- Sea urchins are covered with movable spines that point towards a threat, and their mouth underneath has five teeth called Aristotle's lantern.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «covered» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.