Tunic vs. Mantle — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tunic and Mantle

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Tunic

A tunic is a garment for the body, usually simple in style, reaching from the shoulders to a length somewhere between the hips and the knees. The name derives from the Latin tunica, the basic garment worn by both men and women in Ancient Rome, which in turn was based on earlier Greek garments that covered wearers' waists.

Mantle

A loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women

She was wrapped tightly in her mantle

Tunic

A loose garment, typically sleeveless and reaching to the knees, as worn in ancient Greece and Rome.

Mantle

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

The second son has now assumed his father's mantle

Tunic

A close-fitting short coat as part of a uniform, especially a police or military uniform.

Mantle

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

Tunic

An integument or membrane enclosing or lining an organ or part.

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

Tunic

A loose-fitting garment, sleeved or sleeveless, extending to the knees and worn especially in ancient Greece and Rome.

Mantle

Variant spelling of mantel

Tunic

A medieval surcoat.

Mantle

Cloak or envelop

Heavy mists mantled the forested slopes

Tunic

A long, plain, close-fitting jacket, usually having a stiff high collar and worn as part of a uniform.

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

Tunic

A loose-fitting, pullover, collarless shirt that falls to the hip or thigh and is often drawn in at the waist and worn over leggings or pants.

Mantle

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

Tunic

(Anatomy) A coat or layer enveloping an organ or part.

Mantle

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

Tunic

(Botany) A loose membranous outer covering of a bulb or corm, as of an onion, tulip, or crocus.

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).

Tunic

See tunicle.

Mantle

Variant ofmantel.

Tunic

A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.

Mantle

The outer covering of a wall.

Tunic

Any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane.

Mantle

A zone of hot gases around a flame.

Tunic

An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes. It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.

Mantle

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

Tunic

Any similar garment worn by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others.

Mantle

(Anatomy)The cerebral cortex.

Tunic

Same as Tunicle.

Mantle

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

Tunic

A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.

Mantle

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

Tunic

A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.

Mantle

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

Tunic

An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue

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.

Tunic

Any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees

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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