Clothing vs. Covering — What's the Difference?

Clothing (also known as clothes, apparel, and attire) are items worn on the body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin sheets of materials and natural products found in the environment, put together.

Something that covers, so as to protect or conceal.

Clothes considered as a group; wearing apparel.

Present participle of cover

A covering.

(countable) That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.

Present participle of clothe

(uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.

Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.

(topology) A continuous map onto a topological space $X$, $\backslash pi\; :\; E\; \backslash rightarrow\; X$, such that there exists a discrete space $D$ and for every $x\; \backslash in\; X$ an open neighborhood $U\; \backslash subset\; X$, such that $\backslash pi^\{-1\}(U)=\; \backslash displaystyle\; \backslash bigsqcup\_\{d\; \backslash in\; D\}\; V\_d$ and $\backslash pi|\_\{V\_d\}:V\_d\; \backslash rightarrow\; U$ is a homeomorphism for every $d\; \backslash in\; D$.

An act or instance of putting clothes on.

Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.

(obsolete) The art or process of making cloth.

A natural object that covers or envelops;

A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.

An artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)

Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.

The act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it;

The art of process of making cloth.

The act of protecting something by covering it

A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.

The work of applying something;

See Card clothing, under 3d Card.

A covering designed to be worn on a person's body