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How to pronounce “mantle”
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Pronunciation guide for mantle
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of mantle with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Batman & the Rise of Nerd Culture
takes under his protecting mantle an ally it
- Definition summary
- A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. [from 9th c.]
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How to pronounce mantle
Batman & the Rise of Nerd Culture

takes under his protecting mantle an ally it
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “mantle”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. [from 9th c.]
- (figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
- (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak. [from 9th c.]
- (malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted. [from 15th c.]
- (ornithology) 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.) [from 19th c.]
- The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.[1]
- A penstock for a water wheel.
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex. [from 19th c.]
- (geology) The layer between Earth's core and crust. [from 20th c.]
- Alternative spelling of mantel (“shelf above fireplace”).
- (heraldry) A mantling.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
- (intransitive) To become covered or concealed. (Can we add an example for this sense? )
- (intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
- To climb over or onto something.
- (falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
- (falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.
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