cloak
cloak - English
Alternative forms
- cloke (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA: /ˈkloʊk/
Noun
cloak (plural cloaks)
- A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
- A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
- Night hid her movements with its cloak of darkness.
- (figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Thessalonians 2:5:
- For neither at any time vsed wee flattering wordes, as yee knowe, nor a cloke of couetousnesse, God is witnesse:
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume , 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:
- No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.
-
- (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
Derived terms
Translations
|
|
Verb
cloak (third-person singular simple present cloaks, present participle cloaking, simple past and past participle cloaked)
- (transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
- (transitive, figurative) To cover up, hide or conceal.
- (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
- The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.