Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To remove the cover from.
- intransitive verb To manifest or disclose; reveal.
- intransitive verb To remove the hat from, as in respect or reverence.
- intransitive verb To remove a cover.
- intransitive verb To bare the head in respect or reverence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove a cover or covering from; divest of a cover or covering, such as a hat, a veil, clothing, a roof, or the like.
- Hence To lay bare; disclose; lay open to view.
- Milit., in the deployment of troops, to expose (the successive lines of formation) by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.
- To remove the cover or covering of something, as the head; specifically, to take off one's hat or other head-covering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To take the cover from; to divest of covering.
- transitive verb To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
- transitive verb To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of.
- intransitive verb To take off the hat or cap; to bare the head in token of respect.
- intransitive verb To remove the covers from dishes, or the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to remove the cover of an object
- verb To
reveal the identity of
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make visible
- verb remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
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Examples
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The uncover is watchable usually because a so ridiculous.
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The uncover is watchable usually because a so ridiculous.
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Every bit of knowledge they uncover is one more part of an infinite amount of knowledge of God's creation, and therefore part of God.
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Every bit of knowledge they uncover is one more part of an infinite amount of knowledge of God's creation, and therefore part of God.
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It seems like the most exciting find that Phoenix can uncover is the possibility of liquid water on Mars.
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Understanding this, it was shocking to further uncover the Latin word tueor 'to look at, behold'.
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Understanding this, it was shocking to further uncover the Latin word tueor 'to look at, behold'.
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We could have Mandarin uncover some secret, magic thing which makes him all powerful.
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What science has yet to uncover is why it happens so often around me.
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What science has yet to uncover is why it happens so often around me.
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