Covert

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown: covert military operations; covert funding for the rebels. See Synonyms at secret.
  • adj. Covered or covered over; sheltered.
  • adj. Law Being married and therefore protected by one's husband.
  • n. A covering or cover.
  • n. A covered place or shelter; hiding place.
  • n. Thick underbrush or woodland affording cover for game.
  • n. Zoology One of the small feathers covering the bases of the longer feathers of a bird's wings or tail.
  • n. A flock of coots. See Synonyms at flock1.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
  • adj. Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
  • n. Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
  • n. A feather that covers others
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
  • adj. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected.
  • adj. Under cover, authority or protection.
  • n. A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
  • n. One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Covered; hidden; private; secret; concealed; disguised.
  • Sheltered; not open or exposed: as, a covert place.
  • In law, under cover, authority, or protection: said of a married woman. See feme covert, under feme.
  • n. A protection; a shelter; a defense; something that covers and shelters.
  • n. Something that conceals or hides; a screen; a disguise; a pretext; an excuse.
  • n. A thicket; a shady place or a hiding-place; a cover for game.
  • n. Same as coverture, 3.
  • n. In fowling, a company; a flock.
  • n. plural In ornithology, feathers covering the bases, or more, of the large feathers of the wing or tail; the tectrices.
  • To cover.
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  • n. a flock of coots
  • n. a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
  • adj. (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband
  • adj. secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed
    • Antonym
    overt   
    Verb Form
    coverted    covertical    covertness    coverts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    flock   
    Cross Reference
    hide    disguise    incubate    shelter    include    covert play    in covert    to break covert    ear coverts   
    Variant
    bird   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    insidious    concealed    hidden    secret    disguised    covered    private    hid    sheltered    retired   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    overt   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clandestine    furtive    indirect    sly    overt    ongoing    subtle    direct    diplomatic    tactical   
     
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