Umbrella vs. Gamp — What's the Difference?

An umbrella or parasol is a folding canopy supported by wooden or metal ribs that is usually mounted on a wooden, metal, or plastic pole. It is designed to protect a person against rain or sunlight.

A large baggy umbrella.

A device consisting of a circular canopy of cloth on a folding metal frame supported by a central rod, used as protection against rain.

An umbrella.

A protecting force or influence

A large umbrella; - said to allude to Mrs. Gamp's umbrella, in Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit."

A thing that includes or contains many different elements or parts

Colloquial terms for an umbrella

The gelatinous disc of a jellyfish, which it contracts and expands to move through the water.

A device for protection from the weather consisting of a collapsible, usually circular canopy mounted on a central rod.

Something shaped like an umbrella

The gelatinous, rounded mass that makes up the major part of the medusa stage of most jellyfish and certain other cnidarians.

Something that covers or protects

Air cover, especially during a military operation.

A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.

Generally, anything that provides protection.

Something that covers a wide range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.

The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.

An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.

(transitive) To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.

(intransitive) To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.

(intransitive) To move like a jellyfish.

A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted in, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol.

The umbrellalike disk, or swimming bell, of a jellyfish.

Any marine tectibranchiate gastropod of the genus Umbrella, having an umbrella-shaped shell; - called also umbrella shell.

A lightweight handheld collapsible canopy

A formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets;

Having the function of uniting a group of similar things;

Covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups;