Definitions for covering
ˈkʌv ər ɪŋcov·er·ing

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. covering, natural covering, covernoun

   a natural object that covers or envelops

   "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover"

2. coveringnoun

   an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)

3. cover, covering, screening, maskingnoun

   the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it

   "the cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft"

4. coveringnoun

   the act of protecting something by covering it

5. application, coating, coveringnoun

   the work of applying something

   "the doctor prescribed a topical application of iodine"; "a complete bleach requires several applications"; "the surface was ready for a coating of paint";

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. coveringnoun

   That which covers something.

2. coveringnoun

   Action of the verb to cover.

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Covering

   of Cover

2. Coveringnoun

   anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. covering

   Standing exactly in front or in rear of another man or an object.

Matched Categories

1. • Artifact
   • Concealment
   • Protection

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'covering' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3367

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'covering' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3871

How to pronounce covering?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of covering in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of covering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of covering in a Sentence

1. Irwin Michael:

   Generally, stocks tend to firm up around Memorial Day weekend - people covering their shorts, going flattish to maybe long a little bit here.

2. Ben Kwong:

   The market has been oversold after the recent selloff, and local investors calm down a bit in view of a relatively stable mainland markets so far this morning with short covering giving support, on the Greece crisis, people are expecting that there will be an agreement, while China's inflation data also gave support to a rebound in the market.

3. Masashi Oda:

   One of the two big persistent concerns has faded, so investors are taking risks, short-covering by those who had shorted stocks on those worries will likely support the market for a while.

4. Yahya Al Hashemi:

   It was a sandstorm which turned to rainstorm and lot of the construction covering boards were flying around, and lots of cracking noises which unfortunately ended with this tragedy. ... Everybody was pushing trying to escape from inside towards the exits.

5. Wolf Blitzer:

   To this day, 25 years later here in the United States or indeed around the world, people always come up to me: 'Oh I remember the Gulf War. I remember what you were doing,' they still associate me with those months of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm, and it's a source of pride to me that I quote 'became famous' covering that war.

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