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# mantle

«mantle» in Mova's school dictionary: **the thick hot layer of rock inside the Earth, between the…** — 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

noun (a mantle, mantles); verb (mantle — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In science, the mantle is the thick hot layer of rock inside the Earth, between the crust and the core. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#m1)

2) A mantle is a duty or important role that passes from one person to another, as in «take on the mantle». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#m2)

3) (old) A mantle is a loose cloak without sleeves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#m3)

4) A mantle can be a covering of something, like «a mantle of snow». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, the Earth's layers are crust, mantle, outer core and inner core; the mantle is very hot and moves slowly, which moves the plates and causes earthquakes and volcanoes. In stories, a knight wears a mantle and a hero takes up the mantle of a leader. Phrases: the Earth's mantle, take on the mantle, a mantle of snow.

### examples

- The mantle lies under the Earth's crust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#x1)
- Rock in the mantle moves very slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#x2)
- The mantle is much thicker than the crust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#x3)
- A mantle of snow covered the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#x4)
- The queen wore a red velvet mantle. (old) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#x5)
- She took on the mantle of team captain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#x6)
- Heat from the mantle helps push the plates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#x7)
- "It's like a green silk mantle worked with flowers," said the Princess, smiling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mantle/#x8)

### note

Countable noun. Do not confuse with «mantel» (mantelpiece), the shelf over a fireplace — they sound the same. Myth: the mantle is not all liquid lava; it is mostly solid rock that flows very slowly.

### In the corpora

- [Nobody has ever been to the mantle or the core; we know about them by studying how earthquake waves travel through the Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/11/)
- [The crust and the stiff top of the mantle together form the lithosphere, the hard shell that is broken into plates.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/41-inside-the-earth/15/)
- [The plates are always moving, very slowly, about as fast as your fingernails grow, carried on the slowly flowing mantle below.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/1/)
- [Diamond is pure carbon squeezed deep in the mantle, about 150 km down, and carried up by rare volcanic pipes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/10/)
- [The Earth has a thin rocky crust, a thick hot mantle, a liquid iron outer core and a solid iron inner core.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/5-the-earth-as-a-planet/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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