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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#m1)

2) A cover is what goes over or on top, like a lid, a blanket or a book cover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#m2)

3) To cover a distance is to travel it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#m3)

4) To cover is also to be enough for, like money that covers the cost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#m4)

5) To take cover is to hide somewhere safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#x1)
- One can of paint covers 10 square meters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#x2)
- The car covers 60 miles in an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#x3)
- She covers 5 books with paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#x4)
- Cover your mouth when you cough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#x5)
- Snow covered the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#x6)
- The book has a red cover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#x7)
- We took cover from the rain under a tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#x8)
- Will 20 dollars cover the cost? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#x9)
- And without farther hesitation she lifted the cover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/#x10)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/13/)
- [Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/2/)
- [Asking a bot for practice questions is a smart way to revise, if they cover the right topics.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/12/)
- [Recorder players cover the holes with the soft, flat pads of their fingers, because hard fingertips leave gaps that make squeaks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/6/)
- [A cover is a song written by someone else; an original is one the band wrote itself.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cover» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cover/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.