n A lid.
n (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
n The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
n The top sheet of a bed.
n A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
n A cover charge.
n A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
n (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
n (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
n (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
n (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
n (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
n (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
n (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
n (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
n (dated) A swindler's confederate.
n The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
n In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
n (construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
adj Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
adj (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
v (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
v (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
v (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
v (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
v (intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
v (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
v (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
v To deal with or include someone or something.
v To be enough money for.
v (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
v (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
v (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
v (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
v To provide insurance coverage for.
v To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
v (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
v To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
v To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
v (sports) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
n A surname.