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cloaking

/klohk/US // kloʊk //UK // (kləʊk) //

隐身,伪装,隐蔽性,隐身术

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a loose outer garment, as a cape or coat.
    • : something that covers or conceals; disguise; pretense: He conducts his affairs under a cloak of secrecy.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cover with or as if with a cloak: She arrived at the opera cloaked in green velvet.
    • : to hide; conceal: The mission was cloaked in mystery.

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Examples

  • Skyline Arch doubled in size after dislodging a hefty boulder in 1940, Landscape Arch belched up some of its innards in front of surprised onlookers in 1991, and Wall Arch disintegrated under the cloak of darkness in 2008.

  • Unfortunately, Section 230 has been often misused by big tech to do the absolute bare minimum and then hide behind a cloak of liability protection.

  • Regulators face questions about whether the apparently amateur trading crowd’s activities amounted to illegal market manipulation — and if sophisticated professionals used the cloak of online anonymity to stoke the frenzy.

  • Over time, this slow burial of organic matter accumulated into storage strata of ancient sunlight, well hidden in the dark cloak of carbon.

  • That engulfing mucus might also work as an invisibility cloak.

  • Some have innocuous-seeming URLs like cardpool.com or giftcardgranny.com, which cloak the sinister operations.

  • This is the conspiratorial mind using skepticism as a cloak for intellectual laziness.

  • But there is something to be learned by the cloak-and-dagger world from Yousef and Ben Yitzhak.

  • Among the 50 new works included is a shawl made of used tea bags that resembles a ceremonial cloak.

  • Arm people with a cloak of anonymity and a shield of non-accountability, and watch the cavalcade of crazy charge.

  • On this errand he departed, wrapped tightly in his cloak, walking briskly through the now heavier rain.

  • As she spoke, she moved very slightly, letting her cloak fall open so that her long throat was exposed.

  • He dashed up to the drawing-room; his wife was coming forth then, her cloak and gloves on, her fan in her hand.

  • Rallying himself somewhat, he laid his hand upon the white cloak covering her shoulders.

  • On their entrance into the church, a brownish-red silk cloak, which concealed the whole of the uniform, was presented to each.