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Definition: Cloaked |
CloakedAdjective1. Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading; "hidden agenda"; "masked threat". 2. Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cloaked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Synonyms: CloakedSynonyms: clothed (adj), disguised (adj), draped (adj), mantled (adj), masked (adj), wrapped (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cloaked |
| English words defined with "cloaked": Happed. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I don't need it. I'm cloaked in failure! (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Cambodia | During the 15th century, nearly all of Angkor was abandoned after Siamese attacks, except Angkor Wat, which remained a shrine for Buddhist pilgrims.The great city and temples remained largely cloaked by the forest until the late 19th century when French archaeologists began a long restoration process. (references) |
Minorities | Bulgaria | Often cloaked in a veneer of "patriotism," intolerance of the religious beliefs of others was widespread. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cloaked" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 33.82% of the time. "Cloaked" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 33.82% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.82% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 32.35% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Total | 100.00% | 68 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "cloaked": black-cloaked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cloaked | 10 |
cloaked man | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cloaked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 披上斗篷 (Cloaking). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | verhüllte (mantled). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | titkon (by stealth, covertly, in hugger-mugger, stealthily), palástba burkoltan, palástba burkolt, kabátba burkoltan, kabátba burkolt, álcázottan, álcázott (ambushed, camouflaged). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 외투를 입". (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | keillt, keillit (concealed, covert, furtive, hidden, secreted, underground, veiled), cloagit (covered, mantled), breidit (veiled, veiled as woman). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | oakedclay encapotado (cloaking, heavy, lower, lowering, overcast), encapado (aback). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | palliata. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "cloaked": becloaked, uncloaked. (additional references) | |
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"Cloaked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cloake, clokke, Klokeda. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cloaked" (pronounced klō"kt) |
| 3 | -ō" k t | choked, evoked, invoked, joked, poked, provoked, revoked, smoked, soaked, stoked, stroked, unprovoked, yoked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-k-l-o" | |
-1 letter: calked, coaled, colead, lacked, locked. | |
-2 letters: acold, caked, clade, cloak, coked, coled, decal, dolce, laced, laked. | |
-3 letters: aced, alec, aloe, cade, cake, calk, calo, clad, clod, coal, coda, code, coed, coke, cola, cold, cole, dace, dale, deal, deck, deco, dock, dole, kale, koel, kola, lace, lack, lade, lake, lead, leak, load, loca, lock. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-k-l-o" | |
+1 letter: blockade, deadlock, headlock. | |
+2 letters: becloaked, blockaded, blockader, blockades, blockhead, deadlocks, dreadlock, headlocks, padlocked, uncloaked. | |
+3 letters: backlogged, blockaders, blockheads, cocktailed, deadlocked, dreadlocks, jackrolled, landlocked. | |
+4 letters: acknowledge, blackbodies, blacktopped, deadlocking, roadblocked, sockdolager. | |
+5 letters: acknowledged, acknowledges, kaleidoscope, postcardlike, sockdolagers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 6F 61 6B 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. --- .- -.- . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01101111 01100001 01101011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l o a k e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 006F 0061 006B 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37788167777170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kínai, 중국, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chino |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , német, 독일, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemán |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, magyar, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, húngaro |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, coreano |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, spanisch, spanyol, 스페인, Spaainish, Spaainagh, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, angol, 영국, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglés |
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