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Shroud

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounThat which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
2.NounEspecially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
3.NounThat which covers or shelters like a shroud.
4.NounA covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
5.NounOne of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
6.NounOne of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
7.NounA streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
8.VerbTo cover with a shroud.
9.VerbTo conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
"The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.; The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity."
10.VerbTo take shelter or harbour.
11.NounThe branching top of a tree; foliage.
12.VerbTo lop the branches from (a tree).
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