Covert vs. Feather — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Covert and Feather
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Covert
Not openly acknowledged or displayed
Covert operations against the dictatorship
Feather
Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on dinosaurs, both avian (bird) and some non-avian (non-bird) and possibly other archosauromorphs. They are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates and a premier example of a complex evolutionary novelty.
Covert
A thicket in which game can hide.
Feather
One of the light, flat structures growing from the skin of birds, consisting of numerous slender, closely arranged parallel barbs forming a vane on either side of a horny, tapering, partly hollow shaft.
Covert
A feather covering the base of a main flight or tail feather of a bird.
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Feather
A feathery tuft or fringe of hair, as on the legs or tail of some dogs.
Covert
A flock of coots
It is a good omen when a covert of coots have taken to any particular locality
Feather
Character, kind, or nature
Birds of a feather flock together.
Covert
Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown
Covert military operations.
Covert funding for the rebels.
Feather
A strip, wedge, or flange used as a strengthening part.
Covert
Covered or covered over; sheltered.
Feather
A wedge or key that fits into a groove to make a joint.
Covert
(Law) Under former English common law, married and therefore falling under the authority and protection of one's husband. Used of a woman.
Feather
The vane of an arrow.
Covert
A covering or cover.
Feather
A feather-shaped flaw, as in a precious stone.
Covert
A covered place or shelter; hiding place.
Feather
The wake made by a submarine's periscope.
Covert
Thick underbrush or woodland affording cover for game.
Feather
The act of feathering the blade of an oar in rowing.
Covert
(Zoology) One of the small feathers covering the bases of the longer feathers of a bird's wings or tail.
Feather
To cover, dress, or decorate with feathers or featherlike projections.
Covert
(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
Covert operations
Feather
To fit (an arrow) with a feather.
Covert
Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
Feather
To thin, reduce, or fringe the edge of (wood, for example) by cutting, shaving, or making thinner.
Covert
Under coverture.
Feme covert
Feather
To spread (paint, for example) thinly at the edges so as to blend with the surrounding area.
Covert
A covering.
Feather
To shorten and taper (hair) by cutting and thinning.
Covert
A disguise.
Feather
To blur or soften the edge of (an image).
Covert
A hiding place.
Feather
To apply (a brake, throttle, or other control) gently or slightly and steadily.
Covert
Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
Feather
To turn (an oar blade) almost horizontal as it is carried back after each stroke.
Covert
(ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.
Feather
To alter the pitch of (a propeller) so that the chords of the blades are parallel with the line of flight.
Covert
Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
How covert matters may be best disclosed.
Whether of open war or covert guile.
Feather
To alter the pitch of (the rotor of a helicopter) while in forward flight.
Covert
Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley.
Feather
To turn off (an aircraft engine) while in flight.
Covert
Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.
Feather
To grow feathers or become feathered.
Covert
A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
A tabernacle . . . for a covert from storm.
The highwayman has darted from his covered by the wayside.
Feather
To move, spread, or grow in a manner suggestive of feathers
“Steam feathered out from under the bathroom door” (Melinda Hayes).
Covert
One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Feather
To become thin or less dense at the edges
“That lipstick had feathered out in the corners of her mouth” (Erin McCarthy).
Covert
A flock of coots
Feather
To feather an oar.
Covert
A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;
They crouched behind the screen
Under cover of darkness
Feather
To feather a propeller.
Covert
Secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed;
Covert actions by the CIA
Covert funding for the rebels
Feather
A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
Covert
Of a wife; under the protection of her husband
Feather
Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
Feather
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
Feather
A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Feather
Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
Feather
One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
Feather
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
Feather
Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
Feather
Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
Feather
(rail) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
Feather
To cover or furnish with feathers; to fletch.
Feather
To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
Feather
To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
The stylist feathered my hair.
Feather
To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
Feather
(aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the damaged left engine’s propeller.
Feather
To finely shave or bevel an edge.
Feather
(computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
Feather
(intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
Feather
(transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
Feather
(transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
Feather
(transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.
Feather
To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
Feather
To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
Feather
(transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
Feather
(transitive) To move softly, like a feather.
Feather
One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
Feather
Kind; nature; species; - from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
I am not of that feather to shake offMy friend when he must need me.
Feather
The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
Feather
A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
Feather
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
Feather
A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Feather
A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
Feather
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
Feather
To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing.
Feather
To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines.
Feather
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
Feather
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
Feather
To tread, as a cock.
Feather
To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; - often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
Feather
To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers.
Feather
To turn to a horizontal plane; - said of oars.
The feathering oar returns the gleam.
Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately.
Feather
To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground.
The ripple feathering from her bows.
Feather
The light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
Feather
Turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
Feather
Join tongue and groove, in carpentry
Feather
Cover or fit with feathers
Feather
Turn the paddle; in canoeing
Feather
Turn the oar, while rowing
Feather
Grow feathers;
The young sparrows are fledging already
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