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# covered

«covered» in Mova's school dictionary: **having something over it or on 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

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

2) Covered is the past of cover. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covered/#m2)

3) «Covered in» means having a lot of something all over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covered/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covered/#x1)
- Half the field is covered in snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covered/#x2)
- He covered 30 miles by noon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covered/#x3)
- How much of the wall is covered so far? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covered/#x4)
- The dog came back covered in mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covered/#x5)
- About 70 out of 100 parts of Earth are covered by water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covered/#x6)
- We walked across a covered bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covered/#x7)
- The teacher covered fractions this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covered/#x8)
- The sharp winds blew over the snow-covered fields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covered/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/2/)
- [Shark skin is covered in tiny tooth-like scales called dermal denticles that help water flow smoothly, and some swimsuits copy them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/14/)
- [Glyptodonts were armadillo relatives as big as a small car, covered in a bony shell that protected them from hunters such as Smilodon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/12/)
- [A snail eats with a ribbon covered in thousands of tiny teeth that scrapes food like a file.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/13/)
- [Sea urchins are covered with movable spines that point towards a threat, and their mouth underneath has five teeth called Aristotle's lantern.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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