COVERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does covered mean? 

• COVERED (adjective)
  The adjective COVERED has 1 sense:

1. overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form

  Familiarity information: COVERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COVERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form

Context example:

a covered balcony

Similar:

mud-beplastered (covered with or as if with mud)

snowy; white (marked by the presence of snow)

tiled (covered or furnished with tiles)

thickspread (covered thickly)

sun-drenched (covered with sunlight)

splashy (covered with patches of bright color)

snow-clad; snow-covered; snowy (covered with snow)

smothered (completely covered)

sealed (covered with a waterproof coating)

overgrown (covered with growing plants)

plastered; sealed ((of walls) covered with a coat of plaster)

peritrichous (covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella)

muffled (wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy)

ariled; arillate ((of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover)

moss-grown; mossy (overgrown with moss)

moon-splashed (splashed or covered patchily with moonlight)

dust-covered; dusty (covered with a layer of dust)

drenched; drenched in (abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination)

dabbled; spattered; splashed; splattered (covered with bright patches (often used in combination))

crusted; crustlike; crusty; encrusted (having a hardened crust as a covering)

cloaked; clothed; draped; mantled; wrapped (covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak)

canopied (covered with or as with a canopy)

blanketed (covered with (or as if with) a blanket)

beaded (covered with beads of liquid)

awninged (covered with an awning)

Antonym:

bare (lacking its natural or customary covering)

 Context examples 

A solid composed of dry powdered active and/or inert ingredient(s) covered by an edible shell.

(Cachet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

He left the chair, just as he sat in it, squarely, springing from the sitting posture like a wild animal, a tiger, and like a tiger covered the intervening space.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A short, underground bud-like stem covered by enlarged and fleshy scales containing stored food.

(Bulb, Food and Drug Administration)

By this time the gypsies, seeing themselves covered by the Winchesters, and at the mercy of Lord Godalming and Dr. Seward, had given in and made no resistance.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The papillary structures are covered with stratified squamous epithelium.

(Cervical Condyloma Acuminatum, NCI Thesaurus)

It is covered by hyperplastic epithelium.

(Buccal Mucosa Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)

Usually a benign tumor, that commonly presents as a solitary blue nodule with spindled melanocytes covered by smooth skin.

(Blue Nevus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

In a business-as-usual scenario where heat-trapping carbon emissions are left uncontrolled, the glacier loss could extend to two-thirds, exposing the black rock of the ice-covered mountains.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

He plodded on silently for ten minutes, and then, as though there had been no lapse in his speech, he added: And no ground covered, and it's too cold to travel.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The very large, bear-like feet are fully covered with hair and have tough, black, thick pads.

(Black Russian Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)