adj
Meaning 1
cold
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
cowl
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: koul
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /kaʊl/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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/kəʉl/ Mid-Ulster
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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homophone: cawl
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rhymes with -aʊl
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rhymes with -aʊəl
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CMU ARPABET: K AW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- c. 1536, William Tyndale, An Exposycyon vpon the v. vi. vii. Chapters of Mathewe, An Exposycyon of the syxte Capiter, And therfore al our monkes whose professyon was neuer to eate fleshe, set vp the Pope and toke dispensacyons bothe for that faste and also for theyr strayte rules, and made theyr strayte rules as wyde as the hodes of theyr cowles.
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noun
Meaning 3
A mask that covers the majority of the head.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
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noun
Meaning 5
A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
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noun
Meaning 6
A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 7
A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 8
A monk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: metonymically
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noun
Meaning 9
A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 10
A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1982, André Brink, A Chain of Voices, New York: William Morrow, Part 3, “Campher,” p. 331, [...] I’d been born with a cowl, which from my earliest age prompted a wide variety of predictions about my future, alternately dire and enthusiastic.
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verb
Meaning 11
To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
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verb
Meaning 12
To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
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verb
Meaning 13
To make a monk of (a person).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 14
To scrape together
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Yorkshire
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noun
Meaning 15
a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hood
noun
Meaning 16
protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars
- the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hood, bonnet, cowling
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: protective covering, protective cover, protection
verb
Meaning 17
cover with or as with a cowl
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- cowl the boys and veil the girls
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Broader terms: cover
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Ulster Scots coul, from Middle English cold.
From Middle English coule, from Old English cūle, from earlier cugele (“hood, cowl”), from Ecclesiastical Latin cuculla (“monk's cowl”), from Latin cucullus (“hood”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cagoule.
From Middle English coul, covel, from Old French cuvel (“vat”), diminutive of cuve, from Latin cūpa (“tub, cask, tun, vat”).
See caul, probably altered due to semantic association (“something covering the head”).
Across languages
Translations
73 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: գլխանոց (glxanocʻ) — monk's hood or robe
- Azerbaijani: kapüşon — monk's hood or robe
- Bulgarian: качулка (kačulka) — monk's hood or robe
- West Circassian: шъхьарыхъон (ŝḥarəꭓwon) — monk's hood or robe
- Czech: kápě — monk's hood or robe
- Czech: kapuce — monk's hood or robe
- Czech: kutna — monk's hood or robe
- Danish: kutte — monk's hood or robe
- Dutch: pij — monk's hood or robe
- Dutch: kovel — monk's hood or robe
- Esperanto: kapuĉmantelo — monk's hood or robe
- Esperanto: kukulo — monk's hood or robe
- Finnish: huppu — monk's hood or robe
- Finnish: kaapu — monk's hood or robe
- French: froc — monk's hood or robe
- Galician: cugula — monk's hood or robe
- Galician: capuchón — monk's hood or robe
- Georgian: კაპიუშონი (ḳaṗiušoni) — monk's hood or robe
- German: Mönchskutte — monk's hood or robe
- German: Kutte — monk's hood or robe
- Hungarian: csuklya — monk's hood or robe
- Hungarian: kámzsa — monk's hood or robe
- Hungarian: csuha — monk's hood or robe
- Hungarian: reverenda — monk's hood or robe
- Hungarian: habitus — monk's hood or robe
- Icelandic: munkahetta — monk's hood or robe
- Italian: cappuccio — monk's hood or robe
- Korean: 두건 (dugeon) — monk's hood or robe
- Latin: cuculla — monk's hood or robe
- Macedonian: качулка (kačulka) — monk's hood or robe
- Norwegian Bokmål: kutte — monk's hood or robe
- Norwegian Bokmål: munkekutte — monk's hood or robe
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kutte — monk's hood or robe
- Norwegian Nynorsk: munkekutte — monk's hood or robe
- Polish: kaptur — monk's hood or robe
- Polish: kapica — monk's hood or robe
- Polish: kapuza — monk's hood or robe
- Polish: kapuca — monk's hood or robe
- Portuguese: capelo — monk's hood or robe
- Russian: капюшо́н (kapjušón) — monk's hood or robe
- Serbo-Croatian: kapuljača — monk's hood or robe
- Spanish: capucha — monk's hood or robe
- Spanish: cogulla — monk's hood or robe
- Ottoman Turkish: باشلق (başlık) — monk's hood or robe
- Zazaki: çerm — monk's hood or robe
- Zazaki: çherm — monk's hood or robe
- Zazaki: cherme — monk's hood or robe
- Finnish: huppu — mask
- Bulgarian: капак (kapak) — covering over engine
- Finnish: konepelti — covering over engine
- Finnish: konekoppa — covering over engine
- French: capuchon — covering over engine
- Hungarian: motorháztető — covering over engine
- Icelandic: vélarhlíf — covering over engine
- Macedonian: ка́пак (kápak) — covering over engine
- Norwegian: cowling — covering over engine
- Norwegian: motordeksel — covering over engine
- Russian: капо́т (kapót) — covering over engine
- Finnish: savuhattu — chimney covering
- Finnish: tuulihattu — chimney covering
- Finnish: jonne — chimney covering
- Finnish: mekaaninen hormi-imuri — chimney covering
- Finnish: piipunhattu — chimney covering
- French: capuchon — chimney covering
- German: Schornsteinaufsatz — chimney covering
- Hungarian: kéménysisak — chimney covering
- Hungarian: kéménytoldat — chimney covering
- Hungarian: kéményfej — chimney covering
- Hungarian: kéményfedél — chimney covering
- Macedonian: ка́пак (kápak) — chimney covering
- Macedonian: пе́тле (pétle) — chimney covering
- Scots: auld wife — chimney covering
- Scottish Gaelic: cailleach — chimney covering