Meaning of COVERT
| Pronunciation: | | 'kuvurt
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- [n] a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "they crouched behind the screen"; "under cover of darkness"
- [n] a flock of coots
- [adj] secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels"
- [adj] (law) of a wife; under the protection of her husband
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| | Synonyms: | | backstair, backstairs, black, clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, cloaked, closet(a), collusive, concealment, conniving, cover, disguised, furtive, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, masked, on the quiet(p), protected, screen, secret, secure, sub-rosa, subterranean, surreptitious, ulterior, under wraps(p), undercover, underground, under-the-table, undisclosed, unrevealed |
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| | Antonyms: | | open, overt | | |
| | See Also: | | blind, camouflage, concealed, coot, covering, flock, implicit, inexplicit, invisible, shoji, stalking-horse, unseeable | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Cov"ert\ (k?v"?rt), a. [OF. covert, F. couvert, p. p. of
couvrir. See {Cover}, v. t.]
1. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
How covert matters may be best disclosed. --Shak.
Whether of open war or covert guile. --Milton
2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a
covert nook. -- Wordsworth.
Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley.
--Bacon.
3. (Law) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme
covert, a married woman who is considered as being under
the protection and control of her husband.
{Covert way}, (Fort.) See {Covered way}, under {Covered}.
Syn: Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious;
concealed. See {Hidden}.
\Cov"ert\, n. [OF. See {Covert}, a.]
1. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm. --Is.
iv. 6.
The highwayman has darted from his covered by the
wayside. --Prescott.
2. [Cf. F. couverte.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the special feathers
covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of
a bird. See Illust. of {Bird}.
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