[
US
/ˈmæntəɫ/
]
[ UK /mˈɑːntəl/ ]
[ UK /mˈɑːntəl/ ]
NOUN
- a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
-
the cloak as a symbol of authority
place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders -
anything that covers
there was a blanket of snow - hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
- (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell
- shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
VERB
- spread over a surface, like a mantle
-
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.