covert
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old French covert, past participle of covrir (“to cover”) (corresponding to Latin coopertus); cognate to cover.
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AdjectiveEdit
covert (comparative more covert, superlative most covert)
- (now rare) Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne […]
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- to plant a covert alley
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- (figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- how covert matters may be best disclosed
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- whether of open war or covert guile
- 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
- The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. […] who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:covert
- feme covert
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secret
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NounEdit
covert (plural coverts)
- A covering.
- A disguise.
- A hiding place.
- Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
- (ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.
TranslationsEdit
covering — see covering
disguise — see disguise
hiding place
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area of thick undergrowth for hiding
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type of feather
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VerbEdit
covert
- Third-person singular present of covern.
- Second-person plural present of covern.
- Second-person plural subjunctive I of covern.
- Imperative plural of covern.