[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/covering/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [C](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/c/) / covering # covering noun (a covering, coverings); verb form (covering — the -ing form of cover) «covering» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A covering is a layer of something that lies on or over something else. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/#m1) 2. A covering is something you use to cover or protect something, such as a sheet, lid or curtain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/#m2) 3. Covering (verb) means putting something over, hiding, protecting, dealing with a topic, or doing someone else's job for a while. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/#m3) ### In the lessons In weather and nature: «a light covering of snow», «a covering of fur». At home: floor coverings (carpets, rugs), wall coverings. In school: «covering a topic» means teaching it; a «cover teacher» is covering for someone who is away. Phrases: «a thin covering», «covering for someone» (also: hiding someone's mistake), «covering up». ### Examples - There was a light covering of snow on the playground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/#x1) - Animals in the Arctic have a thick covering of fur. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/#x2) - Put a covering over the paint pots so they don't dry out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/#x3) - Mr Lee is covering our class while Mrs Day is ill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/#x4) - We are covering fractions this week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/#x5) - The skin is the body's covering. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/#x6) - Never keep covering for a friend who is in danger — tell an adult. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/#x7) - Covering their heads with their blankets, they sat trembling with fear. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/#x8) ### Note Countable as a noun: coverings. «Covering for» someone can be kind (doing their job) or dishonest (hiding what they did) — the sentence tells you which. «Cover-up» is hiding the truth. ## In Jewish tradition In the Torah it can be the layers of skins and cloth over the Tabernacle, or a garment such as a cloak with fringes. In the poets it also means cover for the poor, or what hides things, and God can cover the heavens with blackness. **Interpretation.** The fringes on a four-cornered garment became the tzitzit, which tradition says remind Jews of the commandments. Job's saying that Destruction has no covering is read as nothing being hidden from God. ### Examples - And every open vessel, which hath no covering close-bound upon it, is unclean. (Torah NUM.19.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/covering/#x1) - Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself. (Torah DEU.22.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/covering/#x2) - the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; (Torah EXO.35.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/covering/#x3) - The nether-world is naked before Him, and Destruction hath no covering. (Writings JOB.26.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/covering/#x4) - I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. (Prophets ISA.50.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/covering/#x5) - They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. (Writings JOB.24.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/covering/#x6) ### Note Countable as a noun: coverings. «Covering for» someone can be kind (doing their job) or dishonest (hiding what they did) — the sentence tells you which. «Cover-up» is hiding the truth. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «covering» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/covering/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«covering» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/covering.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «covering» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/covering/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«covering» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/covering.html) on Mova free.