CLOAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cloak mean? 

• CLOAK (noun)
  The noun CLOAK has 2 senses:

1. anything that covers or conceals

2. a loose outer garment

  Familiarity information: CLOAK used as a noun is rare.

• CLOAK (verb)
  The verb CLOAK has 3 senses:

1. hide under a false appearance

2. cover as if with clothing

3. cover with or as if with a cloak

  Familiarity information: CLOAK used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anything that covers or conceals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cloak" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

cloak (hide under a false appearance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A loose outer garment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cloak" is a kind of...):

outer garment; overgarment (a garment worn over other garments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cloak"):

burnoose; burnous; burnouse (a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors)

caftan; kaftan (a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant)

cape; mantle (a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter)

capote; hooded cloak (a long cloak with a hood that can be pulled over the head)

capuchin (a hooded cloak for women)

cope (a long cloak; worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions)

dolman (a woman's cloak with dolman sleeves)

domino (a loose hooded cloak worn with a half mask as part of a masquerade costume)

jellaba (a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa)

opera cloak; opera hood (a large cloak worn over evening clothes)

pallium (cloak or mantle worn by men in ancient Rome)

poncho (a blanket-like cloak with a hole in the center for the head)

shawl (cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders)

toga (a one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome)

tunic (any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees)

wrap; wrapper (cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person)

• CLOAK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cloak    ... he / she / it cloaks   
Past simple: cloaked   
Past participle: cloaked   
-ing form: cloaking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hide under a false appearance

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

cloak; dissemble; mask

Context example:

He masked his disappointment

Hypernyms (to "cloak" is one way to...):

disguise; mask (make unrecognizable)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

cloak (anything that covers or conceals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cover as if with clothing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cloak; clothe; drape; robe

Context example:

the mountain was clothed in tropical trees

Hypernyms (to "cloak" is one way to...):

cover; spread over (form a cover over)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cover with or as if with a cloak

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

cloaked monks

Hypernyms (to "cloak" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Have you got your thick boots on, and something warm under your cloak?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Well, said the old witch, we have got the bird’s heart, but not the wishing-cloak yet, and that we must also get.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In a corner was a heap of coats and boat-cloaks, and a flag, all bundled up together.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But he was already in the passage, putting on his cloak; and without one objection, one murmur, he departed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At our landing, the captain forced me to cover myself with his cloak, to prevent the rabble from crowding about me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was wrapped in some sort of cloak which came across the lower part of his face.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then returned, feeling very much easier.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wrapt up in a cloak of politeness, she seemed determined to hazard nothing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Underneath there was an old boat-cloak, whitened with sea-salt on many a harbour-bar.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)