Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - shroud
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Shroud
shroud
(shrouds, shrouding, shrouded) 1. A shroud is a cloth which is used for wrapping a dead body. N-COUNT 2. You can refer to something that surrounds an object or situation as a shroud of something. ...a parked car huddled under a shroud of grey snow... Ministers are as keen as ever to wrap their activities in a shroud of secrecy. N-COUNT: N of n 3. If something has been shrouded in mystery or secrecy, very little information about it has been made available. For years the teaching of acting has been shrouded in mystery. ...the secrecy which has shrouded the whole affair. VERB: be V-ed in n, V n 4. If darkness, fog, or smoke shrouds an area, it covers it so that it is difficult to see. Mist shrouded the outline of Buckingham Palace. VERB: V n
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, garment, from Old English scrud; akin to Old English screade shred — more at shred Date: 14th century 1. obsolete shelter, protection 2. something that covers, screens, or guards: as a. one of two flanges that give peripheral support to turbine or fan bedding b. a usually fiberglass guard that protects a spacecraft from the heat of launching 3. burial garment ; winding-sheet, cerement 4. a. one of the ropes leading usually in pairs from a ship's mastheads to give lateral support to the masts b. one of the cords that suspend the harness of a parachute from the canopy II. verb Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. archaic to cover for protection b. obsolete conceal 2. a. to cut off from view ; obscure trees ~ed by fog this point is ~ed in uncertainty — Henry James b. to veil under another appearance (as by obscuring or disguising) ~ed the decision in a series of formalities 3. to dress for burial intransitive verb archaic to seek shelter ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
1) кожух; колпак 2) бандаж (лопаток компрессора, турбины) 3) направляющая насадка (на гребной винт) 4) мн. ч. мор. ванты 5) тара защитный чехол 6) простыня для обёртывания мясных туш обёртывать мясные туши в простыни - control shroud - core shroud - fan shroud - fuel assembly shroud - funnel shroud - pressurized shroud - radiator shroud ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
3.
кожух, колпак; защитная оболочка; укрытие экран обруч, бандаж обрубленные сучья и ветви anti-pollutant shroud ...Англо-русский строительный словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. саван 2. рел. плащаница (также Holy S.) 3. возв. пелена, покров a shroud of mist —- пелена тумана in a shroud of darkness —- под покровом тьмы 4. мор. ванты 5. тех. кожух, колпак 6. тех. защитный экран 7. теплозащитная оболочка (космического корабля) 8. стропа парашюта (также shroud line) 9. завертывать в саван 10. закутывать, прятать, закрывать shrouded in darkness —- окутанный тьмой a woman shrouded from head to foot in a black veil —- женщина, с ног до головы закутанная в черную паранджу 11. прятать, скрывать they shroud their work in polysyllabic technical terms —- смысл их работы скрыт за обилием технических терминов ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) саван 2) пелена; покров; wrapped in a shroud of mystery - окутанный тайной 3) pl.; naut. ванты 4) tech. кожух, колпак 2. v. 1) завертывать в саван 2) окутывать ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n 1 a cloth that is wrapped around a dead person's body before it is buried 2 something that hides or covers something (The fog rolled in, and a grey shroud covered the city.) + of (A shroud of silence surrounded the general's death.) ~2 v 1 be shrouded in mist/smoke etc to be covered and hidden by mist, smoke etc (The black streets were shrouded in fog.) 2 be shrouded in mystery/secrecy etc to be mysterious, secret etc (The origins of this ritual are shrouded in mystery.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- O.E. scrud "a garment, clothing," from W.Gmc. skruthan, from P.Gmc. *skrud- "cut," related to O.E. screade (see shred). Meaning "cloth or sheet for burial" first attested 1570. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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