Covet vs. Covert — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Covet and Covert
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Covet
Yearn to possess (something, especially something belonging to another)
I covet one of their smart bags
Covert
Not openly acknowledged or displayed
Covert operations against the dictatorship
Covet
To feel strong or immoderate desire for (that which is another's).
Covert
A thicket in which game can hide.
Covet
To wish for (something) longingly.
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Covert
A feather covering the base of a main flight or tail feather of a bird.
Covet
To covet that which is another's.
Covert
A flock of coots
It is a good omen when a covert of coots have taken to any particular locality
Covet
(transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
Covert
Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown
Covert military operations.
Covert funding for the rebels.
Covet
(transitive) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
Covert
Covered or covered over; sheltered.
Covet
(intransitive) To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession.
Covert
(Law) Under former English common law, married and therefore falling under the authority and protection of one's husband. Used of a woman.
Covet
To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; - used in a good sense.
Covet earnestly the best gifts.
If it be a sin to covet honor,I am the most offending soul alive.
Covert
A covering or cover.
Covet
To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.
Covert
A covered place or shelter; hiding place.
Covet
To have or indulge inordinate desire.
Which [money] while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith.
Covert
Thick underbrush or woodland affording cover for game.
Covet
Wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person);
She covets her sister's house
Covert
(Zoology) One of the small feathers covering the bases of the longer feathers of a bird's wings or tail.
Covert
(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
Covert operations
Covert
Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
Covert
Under coverture.
Feme covert
Covert
A covering.
Covert
A disguise.
Covert
A hiding place.
Covert
Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
Covert
(ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.
Covert
Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
How covert matters may be best disclosed.
Whether of open war or covert guile.
Covert
Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley.
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.
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.
Covert
One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Covert
A flock of coots
Covert
A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;
They crouched behind the screen
Under cover of darkness
Covert
Secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed;
Covert actions by the CIA
Covert funding for the rebels
Covert
Of a wife; under the protection of her husband
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