Synonym: cloak, coat, cover, robe, wrap. Similar words: pointless, gentleness, gallantly, instantly, constantly, indignantly, importantly, reluctantly. Meaning: ['mæntl] n. 1. the cloak as a symbol of authority 2. United States baseball player (1931-1997) 3. the layer of the earth between the crust and the core 4. anything that covers 5. (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell 6. shelf that projects from wall above fireplace 7. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) 8. a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter. v. 1. spread over a surface, like a mantle 2. cover like a mantle.
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31. This suggests that the mare basalts and the highland rocks have both been derived from mantle rocks of intermediate density.
32. A round face with a high forehead, blue eyes, short straight nose, a mantle of shining, fair hair.
33. A marble mantle clock made £170; an Edwardian dressing table £240 and an inlaid writing desk £230.
34. This occurs because rifting of the lithosphere allows hot mantle rock to move towards the surface.
35. Samples of rock from them have provided researchers with most of their knowledge of the chemical makeup of the mantle.
36. That way researchers could see the waves passing through ever deeper layers of the mantle.
37. But whereas the mare basalts are too dense to represent the lunar mantle, the highland rocks are not dense enough.
38. Change-up curves are what Mantle hits out of ball parks.
39. Twisting and turning, roiling and churning, the core and mantle were impinging on one another continually.
40. Observers saw Ochs poised to become the folkie / activist pillar mantle that Dylan had abandoned for rock and less political songs.
41. He left no natural successor to take on the Nehru mantle.
42. Hess mistakenly thought that the oceanic crust consisted of altered peridotite, the material of the mantle itself.
43. He was tall and skinny, with a high bald forehead and a mantle of long hair half way down his back.
44. Thus, without any change in the composition across the boundary, the phase change produces a temporarily layered mantle.
45. Then another, smaller concentration shows up near the top of the lower mantle, around 745 miles down.
46. The cowrie concentrates its secretion along the sides of the mantle, forming a shell like a loosely clenched fist.
47. Accepting then that the material making up the mantle can behave as a viscous liquid,(sentencedict.com/mantle.html) this raises an interesting possibility.
48. At least during the special case of reversals, it may be steered by the mantle.
49. The streets and roofs of the houses were covered with a thick mantle of snow.
50. Three-dimensional blobs slip down into the mantle or rise like fat flames from the surface of the core.
51. The credit card key slithers into a crack built into the door mantle.
52. The new pope was given the name Innocent by the archdeacon and invested with the scarlet mantle which signified his pontificate.
53. In 1990, researchers took an even deeper step into the mantle.
54. Oldham soon realized that P waves diving into the earth were encountering the boundary between the core and mantle.
55. Magmas erupted at mid-ocean ridges are derived from the upper mantle.
56. Stoked by heat, they said, the thick layer of rock known as the mantle could be supple enough to flow.
57. It was one more unmistakable sign that the core and mantle are linked.
58. Combined with simple models of mantle convection, the maps have already thrown new light on sinking slabs.
59. This relative concept of liberty undermines the claim of interests theory to don the mantle of a liberal theory of contract.
60. Hot magma from the mantle would rise to the surface to fill in the crack.
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