different between inurn vs cover

English

Alternative forms

• enurn (obsolete)

Etymology

From in- +? urn.

Verb

inurn (third-person singular simple present inurns, present participle inurning, simple past and past participle inurned)

1. (transitive) To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.

   Synonyms: bury, ensepulchre, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest

   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 [4], in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, 1623, p. 257,^[1]

     […] the Sepulcher

     Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn’d

     Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes,

     To cast thee vp againe

     [the 1603 edition of the play has “interr’d”]

   • 1760, Charlotte Lennox, The Lady’s Museum, London: J. Newbery, Volume 1, “The Natural History of the Formica-Leo, or Lion-Pismire,” p. 314,^[2]

     […] it is necessary that he should pass through a period of temporary death, for which state he prepares in the following manner, building to himself a secure and convenient tomb, wherein he lies decently inurned till the appointed moment when he is to arise from his inactive state, and become the inhabitant of another element.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Paris: Galignani, Canto 1, stanza 4, p. 4,^[3]

     Nelson was once Britannia’s god of war,

     And still should be so, but the tide is turn’d;

     There’s no more to be said of Trafalgar,

     ’Tis with our hero quietly inurn’d;

   • 1994, William R. Maples and Michael Browning, Dead Men Do Tell Tales, New York: Doubleday, Chapter 10, p. 136,^[4]

     Each one [crematory] is different, and there is a wide range in the quality of the work they do and the pains they take in combusting and inurning human remains.

2. (transitive) To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died).
   • 1792, Thomas Watkins, Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands, to Constantinople, London: T. Cadell, Volume 1, Letter 18, p. 350,^[5]

     Now there are no other remains of its [Hadrian’s mausoleum’s] grandeur than a ball of bronze in the Vatican, which crowned its cupola, and was supposed to inurn the ashes of its Imperial founder.

   • 1826, Caleb Cushing, Eulogy given on 15 July, 1826, in A Selection of Eulogies, Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of […] John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Hartford: D.F. Robinson, p. 21,^[6]

     Over the insensible marble, which inurns their ashes, a nation bows prostrate in the lowly attitude of mourning,

   • 1838, George Hill, “The Battle of San Jacinto” in The Ruins of Athens; Titania’s Banquet, A Mask; and Other Poems, Boston: Otis, Broaders, p. 79,^[7]

     […] as the plough turns

     Some warlike relic from the sod,

     Whose mould the battle-ranks inurns,

   • 1884, James Thomson, “The Poet and His Muse” in A Voice from the Nile, and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, p. 59,^[8]

     Though you exist still, a mere form inurning

     The ashes of dead fires of thought and yearning,

Anagrams

• inrun, run in, run-in

English

Etymology

From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperi? (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operi? (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wr?on (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again,” the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?v?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)

Noun

cover (countable and uncountable, plural covers)

1. A lid.
2. (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.

3. The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
4. The top sheet of a bed.
5. A cloth, usually fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa to protect it from dust, rain, etc. when not in use.
6. A cover charge.

7. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.

8. (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
9. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
10. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.

11. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
12. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
13. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
14. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
15. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
16. (dated) A swindler's confederate.
17. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

18. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
19. (construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hijazi Arabic: ?????? (kavar)

Translations

Adjective

cover (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
2. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.

Translations

Verb

cover (third-person singular simple present covers, present participle covering, simple past and past participle covered)

1. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

2. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

   • A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
3. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

4. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

5. (intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
6. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
   • 1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy

     the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland

7. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.

8. To deal with or include someone or something.
   • 2010 (publication date), "Contributors", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 7:

     Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist, The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired.

9. To be enough money for.

10. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.

11. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.

12. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
13. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
14. To provide insurance coverage for.

15. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).

    Synonym: impregnate

16. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).

17. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
18. (sports) To defend a particular player or area.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cover.

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: covern
• Danish: lave en cover

Translations

Anagrams

• corve

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.v?r/, /?k?.v?r/
• Hyphenation: co?ver

Noun

cover m (plural covers, diminutive covertje n)

1. A cover, cover song, cover version (rerecording of a previously recorded song, typically by a different artist).
2. A cover, the front of a magazine or of the package of a storage medium.

Derived terms

• coveren
• coverversie

Finnish

Etymology

From English cover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?er/, [?ko??e?r]

Noun

cover

1. cover, cover version, cover song (rerecording of a previously recorded song)

Declension

Synonyms

• koveri, coverversio

French

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover m (plural covers)

1. (colloquial) cover (rerecording)

German

Verb

cover

1. inflection of covern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Polish

Etymology

From English cover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.v?r/, /?ka.v?r/

Noun

cover m inan

1. (music) cover version (rerecording of a song)

Declension

Further reading

• cover in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• cover in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover m or f (rare) (plural coveres)

1. (music) cover version (rerecording of a song by another musician or group)

   Synonym: versão cover

Spanish

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover m (plural covers)

1. cover, cover version

Swedish

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover c

1. (music) cover, cover song

Usage notes

The plural of this word could also be covers.

Declension

Derived terms

• coverband

References

• cover in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)