Mantel vs. Mantle — What's the Difference?

Mantel is a municipality located in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bavaria, Germany. It is known as a Markt, a town that was historically granted 'market rights'.

A loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women

A mantelpiece or mantelshelf.

An important role or responsibility that passes from one person to another

An ornamental facing around a fireplace. Also called regionally mantelpiece.

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

The protruding shelf over a fireplace. Also called regionally mantelpiece, mantelshelf, fireboard.

The region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core, believed to consist of hot, dense silicate rocks (mainly peridotite)

The shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney.

Variant spelling of mantel

(climbing) A maneuver to surmount a ledge, involving pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body. Also called a mantelshelf.

Cloak or envelop

(climbing) To surmount a ledge by pushing down on the ledge to bring up the body.

(of a bird of prey on the ground or on a perch) spread the wings and tail so as to cover captured prey

The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. The shelf is called also a mantelpiece or mantlepiece.

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

Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace;

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

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).

Variant ofmantel.

The outer covering of a wall.

A zone of hot gases around a flame.

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

(Anatomy)The cerebral cortex.

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

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

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

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.

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

To cover with a 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).

To spread or become extended over a surface.

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

To blush:cheeks mantling with embarrassment.

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

(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.

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

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

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

The zone of hot gases around a flame.

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.

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

A penstock for a water wheel.

(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.

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

A fireplace shelf; mantel

(heraldry) A mantling.

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

(intransitive) To become covered or concealed. en

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

To climb over or onto something.

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

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

A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak.

Same as Mantling.

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.

A mantel. See Mantel.

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

A penstock for a water wheel.

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.

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

To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; - said of hawks. Also used figuratively.

To spread out; - said of wings.

To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.

To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.

The cloak as a symbol of authority;

United States baseball player (1931-1997)

The layer of the earth between the crust and the core

Anything that covers;

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

Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace;

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

A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

Spread over a surface, like a mantle

Cover like a mantle;