MANTLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mantle mean? 

• MANTLE (noun)
  The noun MANTLE has 8 senses:

1. the cloak as a symbol of authority

2. United States baseball player (1931-1997)

3. the layer of the earth between the crust and the core

4. anything that covers

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

6. shelf that projects from wall above fireplace

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

8. a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

  Familiarity information: MANTLE used as a noun is common.

• MANTLE (verb)
  The verb MANTLE has 2 senses:

1. spread over a surface, like a mantle

2. cover like a mantle

  Familiarity information: MANTLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cloak as a symbol of authority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders

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

symbol (an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States baseball player (1931-1997)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Mantle; Mickey Charles Mantle; Mickey Mantle

Instance hypernyms:

ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The layer of the earth between the crust and the core

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

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

layer (a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another)

Meronyms (parts of "mantle"):

lower mantle (the deeper part of the mantle)

upper mantle (the upper part of the mantle)

Holonyms ("mantle" is a part of...):

geosphere; lithosphere (the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Anything that covers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

blanket; mantle

Context example:

there was a blanket of snow

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

cover; covering; natural covering (a natural object that covers or envelops)

Derivation:

mantle (cover like a mantle)

mantle (spread over a surface, like a mantle)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

mantle; pallium

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

cuticle; epidermis (the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates)

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chimneypiece; mantel; mantelpiece; mantle; mantlepiece

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

shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)

Holonyms ("mantle" is a part of...):

fireplace; hearth; open fireplace (an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built)

Sense 7

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

curtain; drape; drapery; mantle; pall

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

blind; screen (a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight)

furnishing ((usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable)

Meronyms (parts of "mantle"):

eyehole; eyelet (a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar)

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

drop; drop cloth; drop curtain (a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery)

festoon (a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves)

frontal (a drapery that covers the front of an altar)

portiere (a heavy curtain hung across a doorway)

shower curtain (a curtain that keeps water from splashing out of the shower area)

theater curtain; theatre curtain (a hanging cloth that conceals the stage from the view of the audience; rises or parts at the beginning and descends or closes between acts and at the end of a performance)

Sense 8

Meaning:

A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cape; mantle

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

cloak (a loose outer garment)

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

chlamys (a short mantle or cape fastened at the shoulder; worn by men in ancient Greece)

mantelet; mantilla (short cape worn by women)

pelisse (a sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur)

tippet (a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten)

• MANTLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mantle    ... he / she / it mantles   
Past simple: mantled   
Past participle: mantled   
-ing form: mantling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spread over a surface, like a mantle

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

diffuse; fan out; spread; spread out (move outward)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

mantle (anything that covers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cover like a mantle

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The ivy mantles the building

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

cover; spread over (form a cover over)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

mantle (anything that covers)

 Context examples 

It is also used to treat mantle cell lymphoma that has come back or has not gotten better after other treatment.

(CC-5013, NCI Dictionary)

An octopus' mantle is a very special part of its body.

(Octopuses can dream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A mantle cell lymphoma that arises from the colon.

(Colon Mantle Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A mantle cell lymphoma that affects the stomach.

(Gastric Mantle Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug used to treat mantle cell lymphoma in patients who have already received other treatment.

(Ibrutinib, NCI Dictionary)

These include Burkitt lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, and mantle cell lymphoma.

(B-cell lymphoma, NCI Dictionary)

However, since a large part of the molybdenum in Earth's mantle originates from the outer solar system, this means that Theia itself also originated from the outer solar system.

(Moon’s Formation Brought Water to Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers have mapped 180 distinct areas in our brain’s outer mantle, or cortex – more than twice the number previously known.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)

Earth's mantle is usually shown in a yellow-to-orange gradient, a nebulously defined layer between the crust and the core.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)

Once a period of mountain-building ends, these fluid layers (Earth's upper mantle and Titan's liquid ocean) allow the crust to relax.

(Cassini Spies Titan's Tallest Peaks, NASA)