Phrase Hound found 51 phrases and 34 compound words that contain covers. The most common are listed below. Open covers in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 51
- Covers All
- Book covers
- under the coversIn bed, under the bed covers.
- Album covers
- covers the waterfrontthird-person singular simple present indicative of cover the waterfront: To cover every aspect of a topic or situation.
- first day coversplural of first day cover: A letter or card with a new stamp, postmarked on the day that the stamp was first issued.
- ducks and coversthird-person singular simple present indicative of duck and cover: To duck under a surface and cover one's face with one's hands, as a means to protect oneself from flying debris etc.
- back coversplural of back cover: The cover on the opposite side of the front cover of a book, magazine, etc; back of the book; associated with sports pages in publications.
- bed coversplural of bed cover: The topmost cover of a bed, often functioning as a blanket.
- covers groundthird-person singular simple present indicative of cover ground: To move across an area; to traverse a certain distance.
- covers upthird-person singular simple present indicative of cover up: To conceal or disguise.
- edge coversplural of edge cover: A set of edges which touch all the vertices of a graph.
- extra coversplural of extra cover: A fielding position on the off side, about 45° forward of square, between cover and mid off.
- ground coversplural of ground cover: Something, particularly plants, which overlays an area of land. May refer to plants specifically grown to prevent erosion of an area.
- head coversplural of head cover: A covering for the head; a head covering.
- official coversplural of official cover: A cover which is a position at a governmental agency (e.g. posing as a member of the diplomatic service).
- open coversplural of open cover: A cover whose members are all open sets.
- re-coversthird-person singular simple present indicative of re-cover: To cover again.
- star-coversplural of star-cover: Synonym of asterisk (“An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos”).
- third coversplural of third cover: The inside back cover of a publication.
- fourth coversplural of fourth cover: The back cover of a publication.
- manhole coversplural of manhole cover: A removable plate used to form the lid over the opening of a manhole.
- exact coversplural of exact cover: Given a collection S of subsets of a set X, a subcollection S^* of S such that each element of X is contained in exactly one subset in S^*.
- dust coversplural of dust cover: The detachable paper cover of a book; used to protect the binding, and to provide a blurb.
- covers shortsthird-person singular simple present indicative of cover shorts: To buy in such stocks as have been sold short, in order to meet one's engagements, etc.
Compound words 34
- discoversthird-person singular simple present indicative of discover: To find or learn something for the first time.
- slipcoversplural of slipcover: A fitted protective or decorative cover that may be slipped off and on a piece of upholstered furniture, usually made of cloth.
- hardcoversplural of hardcover: A book with a rigid binding, often of cardboard or leather.
- headcoversplural of headcover: A covering for the head; a head covering.
- coverslipsplural of coverslip: A thin glass plate used to cover samples mounted on a microscope slide.
- groundcoversplural of groundcover: Something, particularly plants, which overlays an area of land. May refer to plants specifically grown to prevent erosion of an area.
- bedcoversplural of bedcover: The topmost cover of a bed, often functioning as a blanket.
- coverstockAlternative spelling of cover stock: card stock
- hypercoversplural of hypercover: A certain generalisation of a cover obtained iteratively
- precoversplural of precover: A generalization of a cover in which the kernel may contain a non-zero pure subgroup.