• Dutch: dekken
• Finnish: kattaa
• German: abdecken
• Hebrew: לכסות (lekhasot)
• Polish: pokrywać
• Portuguese: cobrir
• Slovene: kriti
• Spanish: cubrir
• Swedish: täcka upp för

• Dutch: coveren
• Finnish: coveroida qualifier colloquial
• German: decken, covern
• Polish: nagrać cover
• Portuguese: cobrir, tampar
• Slovene: prirediti
• Swedish: göra en cover på

• ttbc Esperanto: kovri
• ttbc Ido: kovrar
• ttbc Indonesian: menutupi, melingkupi
• ttbc Japanese: 覆う (おおう, oou), カバーする (kabā-suru)

Swedish

Noun

cover

1. cover; a cover song

Usage notes

The plural of this word could also be covers.

Derived terms

• coverband

Cover may refer to:

• A lid or mechanical seal, usually one that completely closes the object
  • Album cover (see also: CD and DVD packaging)
  • Book cover or magazine cover
  • Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package
• Something that conceals something else:
  • Cover (intelligence), the purported occupation or purpose of a spy
    • Undercover
  • Cover (military), a form of protection in combat
  • Cover (telecommunications), a communications concealment technique
  • Mating of animals, e.g. a horse covers a mare
  • Incubation of eggs
  • Cover (geology) or sedimentary cover, overlies a basement (geology) or crystalline basement
• Cover (film), a 2007 film directed by Bill Duke
• Cover charge, an entry fee
• Cover (law), a remedy for the breach of a contract for the receipt of goods
• Cover version, a new version of a previously recorded song
  • Cover band, a musical band that plays only cover versions
• Cover (topology), the mathematical concept of a collection of subsets of a set whose union is the whole set
• Cover, a fielding position in cricket
• Covering space, in the theory of Riemann surfaces and topology
• Cover (finance), repurchasing a short order made on the stock/equity, forex or futures markets
• Cover 2, a class of defensive play in American Football
• Cover (unit), an area approximately equal to 2698 square metres
• Cover (database theory), an equivalent set of constraints in database theory

Covers may refer to:

• Covers (EP), an EP by The Autumns
• Covers (Placebo album), an album by Placebo
• Covers (album), an album by Show of Hands

See also

• Coverall
• Cover up

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