Gauzy vs. Mantle

Gauzyadjective

Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.

Gauzyadjective

(figurative) light; giving the effect of haze

Gauzyadjective

(figurative) vague or elusive

Gauzyadjective

(figurative) tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic

Gauzyadjective

Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

Gauzyadjective

so thin as to transmit light;

Mantlenoun

A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. Compare mantum.

Mantlenoun

(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.

Mantlenoun

(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.

Mantlenoun

(malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.

Mantlenoun

(ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

Mantlenoun

The zone of hot gases around a flame.

Mantlenoun

A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.

Mantlenoun

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

Mantlenoun

A penstock for a water wheel.

Mantlenoun

(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.

Mantlenoun

(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.

Mantlenoun

A fireplace shelf; lang=en

Mantlenoun

(heraldry) A mantling.

Mantleverb

(transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.

Mantleverb

(intransitive) To become covered or concealed.

Mantleverb

(intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).

Mantlenoun

A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak.

Mantlenoun

Same as Mantling.

Mantlenoun

The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.

Mantlenoun

A mantel. See Mantel.

Mantlenoun

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

Mantlenoun

A penstock for a water wheel.

Mantlenoun

The highly viscous shell of hot semisolid rock, about 1800 miles thick, lying under the crust of the Earth and above the core. Also, by analogy, a similar shell on any other planet.

Mantleverb

To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.

Mantleverb

To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; - said of hawks. Also used figuratively.

Mantleverb

To spread out; - said of wings.

Mantleverb

To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.

Mantleverb

To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.

Mantlenoun

the cloak as a symbol of authority;

Mantlenoun

United States baseball player (1931-1997)

Mantlenoun

the layer of the earth between the crust and the core

Mantlenoun

anything that covers;

Mantlenoun

(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell

Mantlenoun

shelf that projects from wall above fireplace;

Mantlenoun

hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

Mantlenoun

a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

Mantleverb

spread over a surface, like a mantle

Mantleverb

cover like a mantle;

Mantlenoun

a loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women

Mantlenoun

a covering of a specified sort

Mantlenoun

a bird's back, scapulars, and wing coverts, especially when of a distinctive colour

Mantlenoun

(in molluscs, cirripedes, and brachiopods) a fold of skin enclosing the viscera and secreting the shell.

Mantlenoun

an important role or responsibility that passes from one person to another

Mantlenoun

a fragile mesh cover fixed round a gas jet, kerosene wick, etc., to give an incandescent light when heated.

Mantlenoun

the region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core, believed to consist of hot, dense silicate rocks (mainly peridotite)

Mantlenoun

the part of another planetary body corresponding to the earth's mantle

Mantlenoun

variant spelling of mantel

Mantleverb

cloak or envelop

Mantleverb

(of blood) suffuse (the face)

Mantleverb

(of the face) glow with a blush

Mantleverb

(of a liquid) become covered with a head or froth

Mantleverb

(of a bird of prey on the ground or on a perch) spread the wings and tail so as to cover captured prey