Cover and Device

Cover

Cover noun - A piece placed over an open container to hold in, protect, or conceal its contents.

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Device and cover are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Device" instead a noun "Cover".

Nearby Words: covered, covering, coverage, coverlet

Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.

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Cover and device are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cover" instead a noun "Device".

old	old cover	old device
good	good cover	good device
elaborate	elaborate cover	elaborate device
similar	similar cover	similar device
Other adjectives: standard, convenient, single, simple, popular, actual, main, new, mobile.

The gameplay of Fracture was built around the Entrencher, a device which in theory could raise and lower the ground to create cover and foxholes as needed.

Source: Deployable Cover
This is very similar to the cover story in Metal Gear Solid that Secretary Houseman was planning to use to cover up the planned nuclear bombing of Shadow Moses (that a terrorist group accidentally detonated a nuclear device) until Snake and Campbell foiled his plan.

Source: Video Game / Parasite Eve 2
We are discovering more tropes because we want to cover every storytelling device in the media.

Source: Administrivia / Ridiculously Similar Trope

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