Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of covering with or as with a cloak.
- noun Cloth for making cloaks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything.
- noun The material of which of which cloaks are made.
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- verb Present participle of
cloak . - noun The act of covering with a cloak;
concealment . - noun The material from which of which cloaks are made.
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Examples
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Such identity as they do possess is invariably generated by the role they play in cloaking abstractions; and these, which tend to vary according to whichever fragment of papyrus or pyramid text is being quoted, rarely make for gripping narrative.
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson; Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley; and Egyptian Dawn by Robert Temple Tom Holland 2010
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As a result, detecting cloaking is a common problem for search engines.
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President Lobo persists in cloaking his repressive military-led rule by calling it a "government of national reconciliation."
Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama Dana Frank 2010
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President Lobo persists in cloaking his repressive military-led rule by calling it a "government of national reconciliation."
Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama Dana Frank 2010
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President Lobo persists in cloaking his repressive military-led rule by calling it a "government of national reconciliation."
Dana Frank: Repression's Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama Dana Frank 2010
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The most common form of link cloaking is a simple 301 redirect.
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Link cloaking is the practice of linking to one site, an intermediary if you will, while sending bots, humans, or both to a completely different site.
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Y___ professes to be a scientist working in secret and solitude on an aborted government project he calls "cloaking technology."
NPR Topics: News 2011
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They have grabbed headlines and captured the popular imagination in recent years after several groups of researchers have used metamaterials to achieve limited forms of "cloaking" -- the ability of a material to completely bend light around itself so as to appear invisible.
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A generation later, Empedocles and Anaxagoras hypothesized the cause of solar eclipses, namely the cloaking of the Sun in the shadow of the Moon.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010
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