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Definition mantle
Etymology
From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-Germanic *mantilaz (“mantle”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, from Latin mant?llum (“covering, cloak”), diminutive of mantum (French manteau, Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Old Norse also borrowed this word from Latin as m?ttull.
Noun
mantle (plural mantles)
- A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.) [from 9th c.]
- (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
- (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak. [from 9th c.]
- (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted. [from 15th c.]
- (ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
- The zone of hot gases around a flame.
- A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) [from 19th c.]
- The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
- A penstock for a water wheel.
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
- (geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust. [from 20th c.]
- A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel
- (heraldry) A mantling.
Verb
mantle (third-person singular simple present mantles, present participle mantling, simple past and past participle mantled)
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