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[ 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

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
  • You had to rebush the rod if the slack was excessive, or rebore the big end if it was split - all of which you hoped could be deferred until the entire affair had to be dismantled for white-lead testing.
  • 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.
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