Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of covering with or as with a cloak.
- noun Cloth for making cloaks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything.
- noun The material of which of which cloaks are made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
cloak . - noun The act of covering with a cloak;
concealment . - noun The material from which of which cloaks are made.
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Examples
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Such identity as they do possess is invariably generated by the role they play in cloaking abstractions; and these, which tend to vary according to whichever fragment of papyrus or pyramid text is being quoted, rarely make for gripping narrative.
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As a result, detecting cloaking is a common problem for search engines.
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President Lobo persists in cloaking his repressive military-led rule by calling it a "government of national reconciliation."
Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama
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President Lobo persists in cloaking his repressive military-led rule by calling it a "government of national reconciliation."
Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama
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President Lobo persists in cloaking his repressive military-led rule by calling it a "government of national reconciliation."
Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama
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The most common form of link cloaking is a simple 301 redirect.
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Link cloaking is the practice of linking to one site, an intermediary if you will, while sending bots, humans, or both to a completely different site.
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Y___ professes to be a scientist working in secret and solitude on an aborted government project he calls "cloaking technology."
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They have grabbed headlines and captured the popular imagination in recent years after several groups of researchers have used metamaterials to achieve limited forms of "cloaking" -- the ability of a material to completely bend light around itself so as to appear invisible.
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A generation later, Empedocles and Anaxagoras hypothesized the cause of solar eclipses, namely the cloaking of the Sun in the shadow of the Moon.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
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