mantle en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantel; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantellum (“covering, cloak”) (French manteau), diminutive of mantum (Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull. Doublet of manteau.
Meanings
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A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
The people of the village all said, "It could be none but the good-natured Dwarfs, who come by night tripping along with their feet covered with long mantles, as light as birds, and industriously perform for mankind their daily work."
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 95:
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(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
“The great millennial novelist”—the mantle has been thrust, by Boomers and Gen Xers alike, upon the Irish writer Sally Rooney, whose two carefully observed and gentle comedies of manners both appeared before her twenty-eighth birthday. With this mantle have come prizes and money. Nearly every review has mentioned at least the prizes.
2019 April 18, Madeleine Schwartz, “How Should a Millennial Be?”, in The New York Review, →ISSN:The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
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(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 1, scene 1; republished as Hamlet, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992, →ISBN, page 6:the green mantle of the standing pool
c. 1605-1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear:Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars
1932 December, Robert E. Howard, “The Phoenix on the Sword”, in Weird Tales:
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The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
Molluscan bodies are broadly divided into two parts: a muscular foot and a shell-secreting mantle.
2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 8:He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle.
1990, Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals, page 71
- 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.)
- The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
- A penstock for a water wheel.
- The cerebral cortex.
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The layer between Earth's core and crust.
The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.
2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
- Any similar layer in an exoplanet.
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”).
alt of mantel
- A mantling.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mantles | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
pass the mantle · bishop's mantle · inner mantle · upper mantle · overmantle · transmantle · picking up the mantle · water mantle · inmantle · unmantle · lady's mantle · alpine lady's-mantle · assuming the mantle · carrying the mantle · mantle field · take up the mantle · lower mantle · mantle leaf · biomantle · mantle-tree · carry the mantle · Blue Mantle · Welsbach mantle · gas mantle · assume the mantle · foot mantle · mantlepiece · taking up the mantle · outer mantle · mantle plume · mantleslug · pick up the mantle · heating mantle · immantle
Translations (121)
is möntull (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · de Mantel (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · ru ма́нтия (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · fi peite (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · de Umhüllung (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · txb kampāl (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · ja マントル (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · el μανδύας (geology: layer of Earth) · enm mantel (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · de Hülle (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · it mantello (geology: layer of Earth) · fi hehkusukka (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · ca mantell (geology: layer of Earth) · la amictus (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · nl aardmantel (geology: layer of Earth) · ga scáth (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · fr manteau (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · da glødenet (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · bg плащ (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · scn pettu (top of woman's torso) · de Mantel (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · fi vaippa (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · it reticella (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · fi sukka (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · la lacerna (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · bg ма́нтия (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · it mantello (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · fr les rênes (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · fi mantia (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · ky мантия (geology: layer of Earth) · fi vaippa (geology: layer of Earth) · fa بالاپوش (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · bg чорап (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · enm mantel (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · nl gloeikous (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · scn manteḍḍu (geology: layer of Earth) · de Mantel (geology: layer of Earth) · ga fallaing (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · bg ма́нтия (geology: layer of Earth) · ro mantie (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · fr manteau (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · es manto (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · cmn 大脑皮质 (anatomy: cerebral cortex) · gl manto (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · mi nukuratarata (geology: layer of Earth) · cmn 斗篷 (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · es manteo (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · ro manta (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · eo mantelo (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · pt manto (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · cmn 大腦皮質 /大脑皮质 (anatomy: cerebral cortex) · ga brat (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · kk мантия (geology: layer of Earth) · pt manto (geology: layer of Earth) · es manto (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · cmn 地函 (geology: layer of Earth) · ru ма́нтия (geology: layer of Earth) · ga brat (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · scn vilu (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · grc φᾶρος (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · ru манто́ (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · nb glødenett (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · de Umhang (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · gd cleòc (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · de Erdmantel (geology: layer of Earth) · ru ма́нтия (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · mk ма́нтија (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · fi aivokuori (anatomy: cerebral cortex) · fi viitta (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · ja マント (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · eo termantelo (geology: layer of Earth) · ga cochall (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · es camisa (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · hy պատմուճան (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · de Hirnrinde (anatomy: cerebral cortex) · sv glödstrompa (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · cy mantell (geology: layer of Earth) · la amictus (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · fr manchon (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · scn mantali (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · ga maintlín (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · cy mantell (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · yue 地幔 (geology: layer of Earth) · nl mantel (geology: layer of Earth) · scn tilu (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · enm mantel (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · mk на́метка (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · mk о́бвивка (geology: layer of Earth) · la amictus (geology: layer of Earth) · cmn 地幔 (geology: layer of Earth) · ba мантия (geology: layer of Earth) · ga clóca (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · bg ма́нтия (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · ru кали́льная се́тка (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · el μανδύας (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · ko 망토 (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · it mantello (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · ca mantell (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · es pendil (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · de Rinde (anatomy: cerebral cortex) · de Glühstrumpf (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · fi miehusta (top of woman's torso) · ca mantell (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · es manto (geology: layer of Earth) · scn mantali (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · grc χλαῖνα (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · he אַדֶּרֶת (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · ms mantel (geology: layer of Earth) · scn cappa (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · ko 맨틀 (geology: layer of Earth) · ja マントル (geology: layer of Earth) · no mantel (geology: layer of Earth) · fi vaippa (zoology: body wall of a mollusc) · fr manteau (geology: layer of Earth) · es manto (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · bg наметало (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · pt manto (clothing like an open robe or cloak) · ca camisa (incandescent gauze in a gas lamp) · de Mantel (figurative: anything that covers or conceals something else) · ar وِشَاح (geology: layer of Earth) · cy mantell (zoology: body wall of a mollusc)