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单词 covering
释义
covering
(kʌvərɪŋ )
Word forms: coverings
countable noun
A covering is a layer of something that protects or hides something else.
Leave a thin covering of fat. [+ of]
Sawdust was used as a hygienic floor covering.
Synonyms: cover, protection, coating, overlay  
Collocations:
covering of snow
Like most of Britain we've had a generous covering of snow and the farm looks utterly spectacular.
The Sun (2013)
Much of southern England woke up to a crisp covering of snow on the 29th.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This rink's lakeside setting is particularly beautiful under a covering of snow.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Conditions were reported to be icy with a covering of snow.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Many northern parts will wake to a covering of snow.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
fabric covering
In 10 years' time, you might be reading them on electronic fabric covering your armchair, or, well, your arm.
Times, Sunday Times
This time next year, the first seats will be fitted into the 80,000-capacity stadium and the fabric covering on the cable-net roof lifted into place.
Times, Sunday Times
The steel fuselage frame defined a nonohedral cross section, not including the keel, which with its fabric covering approximated a blunt oval.
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Lateral stability was enhanced by the fabric covering of the rear bay of the fuselage.
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Here again the debate has centered on the fabric covering of the airship and the hydrogen used for buoyancy.
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hair covering
I have been photographed for exhibitions with my hair covering my face and entire body.
The Sun
We find photographs that we can use, but are told that they may be prohibited because my son has one strand of hair covering his eyebrow.
Times, Sunday Times
The birthday party snap shows her with her hair covering her right eye and cheek.
The Sun
She has purple and pink hair covering one of her eyes.
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The sides of the maned sloth's face and neck feature long hair covering the short hair of the sloth's snout.
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head covering
It's not just her head covering that makes her so: it's her lack of concern for what others think about her.
Times, Sunday Times
They insisted she wear a head covering but, when they returned, she had taken it off.
Times, Sunday Times
A marketplace, a grassland quadruped, an edible fungus, a head covering, an empty space.
Times, Sunday Times
Eighteen schools said wearing the head covering was optional.
Times, Sunday Times
How the place came to be associated with head covering can not be ascertained.
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outer covering
This machine maps the contours of your cornea, the outer covering of your eye in front of your iris.
Times, Sunday Times
Fruit globe-shaped with a fleshy outer covering concealing a large stone.
Times, Sunday Times
Others have no outer covering on the skin.
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The stipitipellis (outer covering of the stem) comprises a layer of colorless hyphae measuring about 23 m wide.
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At speed a problem with the outer covering became apparent: it tended to ripple and flap excessively in the form of a standing wave.
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protective covering
This gurgled peacefullyunder its protective covering, looking very inviting indeed.
Times, Sunday Times
No fig leaves, no protective covering, nothing.
Times, Sunday Times
The protective covering left a straight blond line running from penalty box to penalty box.
Times, Sunday Times
They are somewhat more primitive than the true boxfishes, but have a similar protective covering of thickened scale plates.
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Patinas can provide a protective covering to materials that would otherwise be damaged by corrosion or weathering.
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window covering
Can you suggest an alternative window covering to the dull conventional blind?
Times, Sunday Times
The metal doors clatter, bits of loose window covering flap about, a bird that's got in makes bird noises.
Times, Sunday Times
Station lights pierce beneath the window covering.
Times, Sunday Times
One leader in window covering production machinery downsized.
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The automation system can simulate the appearance of an occupied home by automatically adjusting lighting or window coverings.
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Translations:
Chinese: 遮盖层
Japanese: 覆う物
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