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mantle

გამოთქმა: /ˈmant(ə)l/

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Universal
  • 1a loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women: she was wrapped tightly in her mantle
  • a covering of a specified sort:the houses were covered with a thick mantle of snow
  • Ornithology a bird’s back, scapulars, and wing coverts, especially when of a distinctive colour: many gulls are all white except for dark grey mantle and wings
  • Zoology (in molluscs, cirripedes, and brachiopods) a fold of skin enclosing the viscera and secreting the shell.
  • 2an important role or responsibility that passes from one person to another:the second son has now assumed his father’s mantle
    [with allusion to the passing of Elijah's cloak (mantle) to Elisha (2 Kings 2:13)]
  • 3 (also gas mantle) a mesh cover fixed round a gas jet to give an incandescent light when heated.
  • 4 Geology the region of the earth’s interior between the crust and the core, believed to consist of hot, dense silicate rocks (mainly peridotite): magmas erupted at mid-ocean ridges are derived from the upper mantle [as modifier]:mantle rock [mass noun]:the presence of hot mantle leads to melting at the base of the lithosphere
  • the part of another planetary body corresponding to the earth’s mantle:the lunar mantle

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Universal
  • 1 [with object] literary cloak or envelop:heavy mists mantled the forested slopes
  • [no object] archaic (of the face) glow with a blush:her rich face mantling with emotion
  • [no object] archaic (of a liquid) become covered with a head or froth: the poison mantled in the bowl
  • 2 [no object] (of a bird of prey on the ground or on a perch) spread the wings and tail so as to cover captured prey: the female Goshawk is feeding while mantling with spread wings over her prey

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