Mantle can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| mantle - cover like a mantle; "The ivy mantles the building" | ||
| mantle - spread over a surface, like a mantle | ||
Noun |
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| mantle - the layer of the earth between the crust and the core | ||
| mantle - (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell | ||
| mantle - the cloak as a symbol of authority; "place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders" | ||
| Mantle - United States baseball player (1931-1997) | ||
| mantle - hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | ||
| mantle - a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter | ||
| mantle - anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" | ||
| mantle - shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; "in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece" |
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| 1. | noun | Place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders. | |
| 2. | noun | Jupiter's powerful magnetic field is thought to be generated by the electric currents produced by pressurized hydrogen in the mantle. | |
| 3. | noun | Neptune has a mantle of liquid hydrogen while the atmosphere is a combination of ammonia, helium, and methane. In the upper atmosphere, methane freezes and forms an ice cloud which casts a shadow on the clouds below. | |
| 4. | noun | Scientists believe that Ceres has a rocky core and an icy mantle. | |
| 5. | noun | "For my part," said the elder, "I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimmings." "And I," said the younger, "shall wear my usual skirt; but then, to make amends for that, I will put on my gold-flowered mantle, and my diamond stomacher, which is far from being the most ordinary one in the world." | |
| 6. | noun | But Venus round them on the way / wrapt a thick mist, a mantle of dark air, / that none should see them, none should touch nor stay, / nor, urging idle questions, breed delay. | |
| 7. | noun | Rich presents, too, he sends for, saved of old / from Troy, a veil, whose saffron edges shone / fringed with acanthus, glorious to behold, / a broidered mantle, stiff with figures wrought in gold. / Fair Helen's ornaments, from Argos brought, / the gift of Leda, when the Trojan shore / and lawless nuptials o'er the waves she sought. | |
| 8. | noun | I gradually became aware that my wife had dressed herself and was slipping on her mantle and her bonnet. | |
| 9. | noun | She was deadly pale and breathing fast, glancing furtively towards the bed as she fastened her mantle, to see if she had disturbed me. | |
| 10. | noun | I could see that her fingers were trembling as she undid the fastenings of her mantle. | |
| 11. | noun | Winds roll the waters, and the great seas rise. / Dispersed we welter on the gulfs. Damp night / has snatched with rain the heaven from our eyes, / and storm-mists in a mantle wrapt the light. / Flash after flash, and for a moment bright, / quick lightnings rend the welkin. Driven astray / we wander, robbed of reckoning, reft of sight. / No difference now between the night and day / e'en Palinurus sees, nor recollects the way. | |
| 12. | noun | Tick-tock, tick-tock! They kept winding the clock on the mantle. | |
| 13. | noun | A bull, stimulated either by the scarlet colour of Miss Ashton's mantle, or by one of those fits of capricious ferocity to which their dispositions are liable, detached himself suddenly from the group which was feeding at the upper extremity of a grassy glade, that seemed to lose itself among the crossing and entangled boughs. The animal approached the intruders on his pasture ground, at first slowly, pawing the ground with his hoof, bellowing from time to time, and tearing up the sand with his horns, as if to lash himself up to rage and violence. | |
| 14. | noun | Beautiful and pale as the fabulous Naiad in the last agony of separation from her lover, she was seated so as to rest with her back against a part of the ruined wall, while her mantle, dripping with the water which her protector had used profusely to recall her senses, clung to her slender and beautifully proportioned form. | |
| 15. | noun | To a superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaided mantle, with her long hair, escaping partly from the snood and falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea of the murdered Nymph of the fountain. |
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| Place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders. |
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| Jupiter's powerful magnetic field is thought to be generated by the electric currents produced by pressurized hydrogen in the mantle. | |
| Neptune has a mantle of liquid hydrogen while the atmosphere is a combination of ammonia, helium, and methane. In the upper atmosphere, methane freezes and forms an ice cloud which casts a shadow on the clouds below. | |
| Scientists believe that Ceres has a rocky core and an icy mantle. | |
| "For my part," said the elder, "I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimmings." "And I," said the younger, "shall wear my usual skirt; but then, to make amends for that, I will put on my gold-flowered mantle, and my diamond stomacher, which is far from being the most ordinary one in the world." | |
| But Venus round them on the way / wrapt a thick mist, a mantle of dark air, / that none should see them, none should touch nor stay, / nor, urging idle questions, breed delay. | |
| Rich presents, too, he sends for, saved of old / from Troy, a veil, whose saffron edges shone / fringed with acanthus, glorious to behold, / a broidered mantle, stiff with figures wrought in gold. / Fair Helen's ornaments, from Argos brought, / the gift of Leda, when the Trojan shore / and lawless nuptials o'er the waves she sought. | |
| I gradually became aware that my wife had dressed herself and was slipping on her mantle and her bonnet. | |
| She was deadly pale and breathing fast, glancing furtively towards the bed as she fastened her mantle, to see if she had disturbed me. | |
| I could see that her fingers were trembling as she undid the fastenings of her mantle. | |
| Winds roll the waters, and the great seas rise. / Dispersed we welter on the gulfs. Damp night / has snatched with rain the heaven from our eyes, / and storm-mists in a mantle wrapt the light. / Flash after flash, and for a moment bright, / quick lightnings rend the welkin. Driven astray / we wander, robbed of reckoning, reft of sight. / No difference now between the night and day / e'en Palinurus sees, nor recollects the way. | |
| Tick-tock, tick-tock! They kept winding the clock on the mantle. | |
| A bull, stimulated either by the scarlet colour of Miss Ashton's mantle, or by one of those fits of capricious ferocity to which their dispositions are liable, detached himself suddenly from the group which was feeding at the upper extremity of a grassy glade, that seemed to lose itself among the crossing and entangled boughs. The animal approached the intruders on his pasture ground, at first slowly, pawing the ground with his hoof, bellowing from time to time, and tearing up the sand with his horns, as if to lash himself up to rage and violence. | |
| Beautiful and pale as the fabulous Naiad in the last agony of separation from her lover, she was seated so as to rest with her back against a part of the ruined wall, while her mantle, dripping with the water which her protector had used profusely to recall her senses, clung to her slender and beautifully proportioned form. | |
| To a superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaided mantle, with her long hair, escaping partly from the snood and falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea of the murdered Nymph of the fountain. | |