mantles in English

noun

1

a loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women.

She clapped her little white hands for her attending eunuch, and let the flabby monster wrap her in her mantle .

synonyms: cloak, cape, shawl, wrap, stole, pelisse

2

an important role or responsibility that passes from one person to another.

the second son has now assumed his father's mantle

synonyms: role, burden, onus, duty, responsibility

3

the region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core, believed to consist of hot, dense silicate rocks (mainly peridotite).

Earthquake waves travel slowly through the hotter regions of the mantle and speed up in colder, denser areas.

verb

1

clothe in or as if in a mantle; cloak or envelop.

heavy mists mantled the forested slopes

synonyms: cover, envelop, veil, cloak, curtain, shroud, swathe, wrap, blanket, conceal, hide, disguise, mask, obscure, surround, clothe, enshroud

2

(of a bird of prey on the ground or on a perch) spread the wings and tail, especially so as to cover captured prey.

He lowered his arm slowly, cautiously, extending it well away from him, and the bird mantled as it shifted its weight to balance on his wrist.

noun

cloak, cape, shawl, wrap, stole, pelisse
covering, layer, blanket, sheet, veil, curtain, canopy, cover, cloak, pall, shroud
role, burden, onus, duty, responsibility
blanket
mantlepiece, chimneypiece, mantelpiece, mantel
cape
curtain, drapery, drape, pall
pallium

verb

cover
cover, envelop, veil, cloak, curtain, shroud, swathe, wrap, blanket, conceal, hide, disguise, mask, obscure, surround, clothe, enshroud

Use "mantles" in a sentence

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4. After arriving in the New York area, Washington founded a company producing kerosene gas mantles.

5. Glaciation has had a substantial impact here, scouring and reconfiguring the lowlands,and leaving deep mantles of moraine.

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8. These gas mantles brought new life to gas lighting just when it was threatened by Swan's electric light bulbs.

9. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman effortlessly don the mantles of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable here; the screen is crammed with ravishing images.

10. Cometary observations have shown that there is a striking similarity between the composition of comets and the composition of the icy mantles observed on interstellar grains

11. Crisping-pins (1 Occurrence) Isaiah 3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the Crisping-pins, (WBS)

12. Cerium is a component of mischmetal, used in the manufacture of alloys for cigarette lighters. Cerium oxide is used in incandescent gas mantles, as a …

13. “The people carried their flour dough before it was leavened,” explains Exodus 12:34, “with their kneading troughs wrapped up in their mantles upon their shoulder.”