Mantle
noun
A loose, sleeveless cloak or shawl worn over other clothes.
She draped a silk mantle over her shoulders to ward off the chill.
Often appears as...
- don a mantle
- drape a mantle
noun
The layer of the earth between the crust and the core.
Scientists conducted studies to learn more about the Earth's mantle.
Often appears as...
- earth's mantle
- study the mantle
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Academic,Technical
noun
The role or responsibilities that one person passes on to another.
After his father's death, he took on the mantle of family leadership.
Often appears as...
- take on the mantle
- assume the mantle
noun
The covering of a bird, mammal, or amphibian, especially when it's soft and furry.
The bird's mantle was impressively colorful.
Often appears as...
- bird's mantle
- fur mantle
Usage tips
Academic,Technical
noun
A loose, sleeveless cloak or shawl worn over other clothes.
She draped a silk mantle over her shoulders to ward off the chill.
Often appears as...
- don a mantle
- drape a mantle
noun
The layer of the earth between the crust and the core.
Scientists conducted studies to learn more about the Earth's mantle.
Often appears as...
- earth's mantle
- study the mantle
Usage tips
Academic,Technical
noun
The role or responsibilities that one person passes on to another.
After his father's death, he took on the mantle of family leadership.
Often appears as...
- take on the mantle
- assume the mantle
noun
The covering of a bird, mammal, or amphibian, especially when it's soft and furry.
The bird's mantle was impressively colorful.
Often appears as...
- bird's mantle
- fur mantle
Usage tips
Academic,Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Garment
Mantle used this way refers to a garment with historical roots, often seen in medieval contexts.
The knight wore a red mantle bearing his family's crest.
Pro Tip 2/3Elegance and Status
Mantles can symbolize elegance or high status, typically in formal or fantasy settings such as literature.
At the ball, she wore a velvet mantle edged with gold.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Usage
Mantle may be used metaphorically to mean protection or covering, not always a physical item.
The forest was under a mantle of snow.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Garment
Mantle used this way refers to a garment with historical roots, often seen in medieval contexts.
The knight wore a red mantle bearing his family's crest.
Pro Tip 2/3Elegance and Status
Mantles can symbolize elegance or high status, typically in formal or fantasy settings such as literature.
At the ball, she wore a velvet mantle edged with gold.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Usage
Mantle may be used metaphorically to mean protection or covering, not always a physical item.
The forest was under a mantle of snow.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Garment
Mantle used this way refers to a garment with historical roots, often seen in medieval contexts.
The knight wore a red mantle bearing his family's crest.
Pro Tip 2/3Elegance and Status
Mantles can symbolize elegance or high status, typically in formal or fantasy settings such as literature.
At the ball, she wore a velvet mantle edged with gold.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Usage
Mantle may be used metaphorically to mean protection or covering, not always a physical item.
The forest was under a mantle of snow.
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Video examples
The Pangaea Pop-up -...
The speed and direction in which these tectonic plates move depends on the temperature and pressure of the asthenosphere below. Scientists are still trying to nail down the driving forces behind this movement, with some theories pointing towards mantle convection, while others are examining the influence of the Earth's rotation
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How North America got...
and it diffuses water into the magma-filled mantle. That lowers the magma's melting point and makes it rise into the overlying North American plate. From a subterranean chamber, the magma travels upwards and erupts along a chain of volcanos. Magma still deep underground slowly cools,
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Best of Australian...
around the world to find the blue ringed octopus the ones that have found here around Sydney are called blue lined octopus because all running down the surface in the mantle you can see a great big long neon light oh look at that bright bright color change gorgeous and
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How do crystals work? -...
So the signature shape of a quartz crystal is a six-sided column with pointed tips. Depending on environmental conditions, most crystals have the potential to form multiple geometric shapes. For example, diamonds, which form deep in the Earth’s mantle,
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Mars 101 PIPE National...
a rocky composition at the center of the planet is a core made of iron nickel and sulphur which may have created a protective magnetic field during Mars's earlier years enveloping the core is a rocky mantle made of silicate minerals
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The Venomous Blue Ringed...
the tiny wonder that I've come halfway around the world to find the blue ringed octopus the ones that have found here around Sydney are called blue lined octopus because all running down the surface of the mantle you can see great
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How NASA's Next Mars...
will make it possible for us to determine the depth and composition of its crust mantle and core next inside we'll check the planet's temperature its heat probe will burrow deep underground up to a depth of 16 feet beneath the
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Why women should tell...
half of humanity. He thought he was writing a story about human goodness; she thought he was writing a lad's heroic adventure. And this is common. Men feel they have been given the mantle for universal communication,
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Maya Doomsday Prophecy PIPE...
world in a pole shift the continents and mantle below that make up the outer part of the planet with slide across the core of the earth but the emails ask about the consequences of a rapid pole shift
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Volcanoes 101 PIPE National...
deep underground in the earth's core the core which can burn as hot as the surface of the sun transfers its heat to the surrounding rocky mantle in doing so the heat melts some of the rock this
Video examples
The Pangaea Pop-up -...
The speed and direction in which these tectonic plates move depends on the temperature and pressure of the asthenosphere below. Scientists are still trying to nail down the driving forces behind this movement, with some theories pointing towards mantle convection, while others are examining the influence of the Earth's rotation
Video examples
How North America got...
and it diffuses water into the magma-filled mantle. That lowers the magma's melting point and makes it rise into the overlying North American plate. From a subterranean chamber, the magma travels upwards and erupts along a chain of volcanos. Magma still deep underground slowly cools,
Video examples
Best of Australian...
around the world to find the blue ringed octopus the ones that have found here around Sydney are called blue lined octopus because all running down the surface in the mantle you can see a great big long neon light oh look at that bright bright color change gorgeous and
Video examples
How do crystals work? -...
So the signature shape of a quartz crystal is a six-sided column with pointed tips. Depending on environmental conditions, most crystals have the potential to form multiple geometric shapes. For example, diamonds, which form deep in the Earth’s mantle,
Video examples
Mars 101 PIPE National...
a rocky composition at the center of the planet is a core made of iron nickel and sulphur which may have created a protective magnetic field during Mars's earlier years enveloping the core is a rocky mantle made of silicate minerals
Video examples
The Venomous Blue Ringed...
the tiny wonder that I've come halfway around the world to find the blue ringed octopus the ones that have found here around Sydney are called blue lined octopus because all running down the surface of the mantle you can see great
Video examples
How NASA's Next Mars...
will make it possible for us to determine the depth and composition of its crust mantle and core next inside we'll check the planet's temperature its heat probe will burrow deep underground up to a depth of 16 feet beneath the
Video examples
Why women should tell...
half of humanity. He thought he was writing a story about human goodness; she thought he was writing a lad's heroic adventure. And this is common. Men feel they have been given the mantle for universal communication,
Video examples
Maya Doomsday Prophecy PIPE...
world in a pole shift the continents and mantle below that make up the outer part of the planet with slide across the core of the earth but the emails ask about the consequences of a rapid pole shift
Video examples
Volcanoes 101 PIPE National...
deep underground in the earth's core the core which can burn as hot as the surface of the sun transfers its heat to the surrounding rocky mantle in doing so the heat melts some of the rock this
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Quote examples
Todd Rundgren
American Musician
There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 - regardless of what the result of that is.
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George C. Wolfe
American Playwright
I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.
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Ernestine Rose
American Activist
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
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James Young
American Musician
Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.
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Scott Morrison
Australian Politician
Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that... we bring the parliament back together.
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Emma Walton Hamilton
British Author
Sometime in my 20s, a wise mentor said something that dramatically changed my outlook and that has stayed with me ever since. She told me to 'wear the mantle with dignity and pride.
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John Hawkes
American Actor
I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
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Michael Shermer
Writer
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss Philosopher
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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Edward Enninful
British Designer
I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.
Quote examples
Todd Rundgren
American Musician
There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 - regardless of what the result of that is.
Quote examples
George C. Wolfe
American Playwright
I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.
Quote examples
Ernestine Rose
American Activist
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
Quote examples
James Young
American Musician
Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.
Quote examples
Scott Morrison
Australian Politician
Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that... we bring the parliament back together.
Quote examples
Emma Walton Hamilton
British Author
Sometime in my 20s, a wise mentor said something that dramatically changed my outlook and that has stayed with me ever since. She told me to 'wear the mantle with dignity and pride.
Quote examples
John Hawkes
American Actor
I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
Quote examples
Michael Shermer
Writer
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
Quote examples
Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss Philosopher
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Quote examples
Edward Enninful
British Designer
I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.
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