undercover

«undercover» in Mova's school dictionary: working secretly, pretending to be someone else, to find… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (undercover); adverb (undercover)

meaning for a pupil

1) Undercover means working secretly, pretending to be someone else, to find out information, as police or spies do. tree →

2) (adverb) To go undercover is to start working in this secret way. tree →

3) (sometimes «under cover») Under cover means under a roof or shelter, out of the rain. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and crime shows: undercover police, undercover agents, undercover reporters. It tells the reader a character is hiding who they really are. In everyday life «under cover» (two words) means sheltered: «Keep your bike under cover».

examples

• The undercover officer pretended to be a builder. tree →
• The reporter went undercover to find out the truth. tree →
• In the film, the spy worked undercover for years. tree →
• An undercover inspector ate at the café. tree →
• Keep the logs under cover so they stay dry. tree →
• My cat went undercover under the bed when the hoover came out. (joking) tree →

note

Usually one word for secret work: «undercover», and two words for shelter: «under cover». It does not mean «under a blanket».

In the corpora

• It's not undercover."

Trees and pragmatics

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