covers (Meaning)

cover charge, to give protection against or compensation or indemnification for, something that protects, shelters, or conceals (as a natural shelter for an animal or natural features that shelter or conceal), a tablecloth and the other table accessories, to pass over, to afford protection or security to, to record or perform a cover of (a song), the front or back of such a binding, to act as a substitute or replacement, to conceal traces in order to elude pursuers or escape detection, to report news about, to buy securities or commodities for delivery against (an earlier short sale), to provide or plan for, to hold within range of an aimed firearm, something that is placed over or about another thing (as the lid of a box or a sheet or blanket on a bed), the factors that provide such shelter, to sit on and incubate (eggs), a masking device, natural shelter for an animal, purchase of goods in substitution for those originally contracted for when the seller fails to fulfill the contract, something that protects, shelters, or guards, to lay or spread something over, the substituted goods, in an envelope or wrapper, a binding or case for a book or the analogous part of a magazine, something that is placed over or about another thing, to deal with a subject or assignment in a particular manner, to lie over, to guard from attack, to defray the cost of, to spread or lie over or on, a binding or case for a book or the front or back of such a binding, to obtain cover, something (as plants or snow) that covers the ground, one who substitutes for another during an absence, to protect by contrivance or expedient, an overlay or outer layer especially for protection, something (such as vegetation or snow) that covers the ground, coverage sense 1a, to put something protective or concealing over, to play a higher-ranking card on (a previously played card), to place or set a cover or covering over, to conceal something dishonest or embarrassing from notice, to guard (an opponent) in order to obstruct a play, a position or situation affording protection from enemy fire, insure, to maintain a check on especially by patrolling, to deal with, lid, top, roof, to appear here and there on the surface of, to have within range of one's guns, to invest with a large or excessive amount of something, to conceal something illicit, blameworthy, or embarrassing from notice, to pay or provide for the payment of, to hide something from sight or knowledge, to have within the range of one's guns, something that conceals or obscures, under concealment, to have as one's territory or field of activity, the extent to which clouds obscure the sky, to afford protection against or compensation (see compensation sense 2) for, an envelope or wrapper for mail, a cloth used on a bed for warmth or for decoration, to hide from sight or knowledge, to copulate with (a female animal), to be in position to receive a throw to (a base in baseball), to spread over, to place one's stake in equal jeopardy within a bet, to act as a substitute or replacement during an absence, to pass over or through, the protection offered by airplanes in tactical support of a military operation, to provide protection to or against, to make provision for (a demand or charge) by means of a reserve or deposit, a recording or performance of a song previously recorded by another performer, to have sufficient scope to include or take into account