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Gauzy vs. Mantle — What's the Difference?

Gauzy vs. Mantle — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Gauzy and Mantle

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Gauzy

Resembling gauze, as in thinness or translucency
"the gauzy grey steam of early morning" (Anita Desai).

Mantle

A loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women
She was wrapped tightly in her mantle

Gauzy

Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.

Mantle

An important role or responsibility that passes from one person to another
The second son has now assumed his father's mantle

Gauzy

(figurative) light; giving the effect of haze
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Mantle

A fragile mesh cover fixed round a gas jet, kerosene wick, etc., to give an incandescent light when heated.

Gauzy

(figurative) vague or elusive

Mantle

The region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core, believed to consist of hot, dense silicate rocks (mainly peridotite)
Magmas erupted at mid-ocean ridges are derived from the upper mantle
Mantle rock
The presence of hot mantle leads to melting at the base of the lithosphere

Gauzy

(figurative) tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic

Mantle

Variant spelling of mantel

Gauzy

Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

Mantle

Cloak or envelop
Heavy mists mantled the forested slopes

Gauzy

So thin as to transmit light;
A hat with a diaphanous veil
Filmy wings of a moth
Gauzy clouds of dandelion down
Gossamer cobwebs
Sheer silk stockings
Transparent chiffon
Vaporous silks

Mantle

(of a bird of prey on the ground or on a perch) spread the wings and tail so as to cover captured prey
The female Goshawk is feeding while mantling with spread wings over her prey

Mantle

A loose sleeveless coat worn over outer garments; a cloak.

Mantle

Something that covers, envelops, or conceals:"On a summer night ... a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads"(John Dollard).

Mantle

The role or appearance of an authoritative or important person:"a Carlylean conviction that in modern society a poet was obligated to assume the mantle of a prophet"(Richard D. Altick).

Mantle

Variant ofmantel.

Mantle

The outer covering of a wall.

Mantle

A zone of hot gases around a flame.

Mantle

A device in gas lamps consisting of a sheath of threads that gives off brilliant illumination when heated by the flame.

Mantle

(Anatomy)The cerebral cortex.

Mantle

(Geology)The zone of the earth between the crust and the core.

Mantle

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace above the hearth.

Mantle

The shoulder feathers, upper back, and sometimes the wings of a bird when differently colored from the rest of the body.

Mantle

A fold or pair of folds of the body wall that covers the internal organs and typically secretes the substance that forms the shell in mollusks and brachiopods.

Mantle

The soft outer wall lining the shell of a tunicate or barnacle.

Mantle

To cover with a mantle.

Mantle

To cover with something that acts like a mantle; cover, envelop, or conceal:"when the land was mantled in forest and prowled by lions, leopards, and wolves"(David Campbell).

Mantle

To spread or become extended over a surface.

Mantle

To become covered with a coating, as scum or froth on the surface of a liquid.

Mantle

To blush:cheeks mantling with embarrassment.

Mantle

A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. Compare mantum.

Mantle

(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.

Mantle

(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.

Mantle

(malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.

Mantle

(ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

Mantle

The zone of hot gases around a flame.

Mantle

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.

Mantle

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

Mantle

A penstock for a water wheel.

Mantle

(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.

Mantle

(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.

Mantle

A fireplace shelf; mantel

Mantle

(heraldry) A mantling.

Mantle

(transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.

Mantle

(intransitive) To become covered or concealed. en

Mantle

(intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).

Mantle

To climb over or onto something.

Mantle

(falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.

Mantle

(falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.

Mantle

A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak.
[The] children are clothed with mantles of satin.
The green mantle of the standing pool.
Now Nature hangs her mantle greenOn every blooming tree.

Mantle

Same as Mantling.

Mantle

The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.

Mantle

A mantel. See Mantel.

Mantle

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

Mantle

A penstock for a water wheel.

Mantle

The highly viscous shell of hot semisolid rock, about 1800 miles thick, lying under the crust of the Earth and above the core. Also, by analogy, a similar shell on any other planet.

Mantle

To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.

Mantle

To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; - said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch.
Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew.
My frail fancy fed with full delight.Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.

Mantle

To spread out; - said of wings.
The swan, with arched neckBetween her white wings mantling proudly, rows.

Mantle

To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
Though mantled in her cheek the blood.

Mantle

To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
There is a sort of men whose visagesDo cream and mantle like a standing pond.
Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm.

Mantle

The cloak as a symbol of authority;
Place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders

Mantle

United States baseball player (1931-1997)

Mantle

The layer of the earth between the crust and the core

Mantle

Anything that covers;
There was a blanket of snow

Mantle

(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell

Mantle

Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace;
In England they call a mantel a chimneypiece

Mantle

Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

Mantle

A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

Mantle

Spread over a surface, like a mantle

Mantle

Cover like a mantle;
The ivy mantles the building

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