[ US /ˈmæntəɫ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɑːntə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
  2. the cloak as a symbol of authority
    place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders
  3. anything that covers
    there was a blanket of snow
  4. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
  5. the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
  6. (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
  7. shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
VERB
  1. spread over a surface, like a mantle
  2. cover like a mantle
    The ivy mantles the building
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How To Use mantle In A Sentence

  • Many scientists think that hotspots mark locations where diapiric convection cells, called mantle ‘plumes’, rise beneath lithospheric plates.
  • Police claim to have dismantled 12 networks of traffickers so far this year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The equipment had to be dismantled and reassembled at each new location.
  • Ochre and red rippled across the male's mantle, in the delicate, complex traceries of which only males were capable.
  • In her dying depositions she accused Osio of having pushed her in; and there seems little doubt that he did so; for while she was struggling in the water, he disengaged his harquebuss from his mantle and struck her several blows upon the head and hands. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
  • Congenital brain anomalies like microcephaly, abnormal cortical mantle formation, agenesis of the corpus callosum have been reported.
  • Oh, these professionals!" ingeminated Captain Pond again, eyeing the breach and the dismantled married quarters. Merry-Garden and Other Stories
  • Cake/dessert, or sweetmeat baskets are extremely popular and apart from the converted liners already mentioned, dismantled epergnes and converted goblets are the two most common deceptions.
  • The core mantle boundary is a complex and dynamic area that churns and chugs as the liquid iron core roils at the bottom of the rock-like mantle.
  • At the end of an hour, the ascent becoming every moment more abrupt, we had passed the belt of trees and bushes, and reached the smooth and scoriaceous cone, which, during the rainy season, appears from the bay to be covered with a velvety mantle of green. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
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