Cover and Hull

Cover

Cover noun - Something that encloses another thing especially to protect it.

Usage example: put the restaurant menus in clear plastic covers so that they would last longer

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

Nearby Words: covered, covering, coverage, coverlet

Hull noun - Something that encloses another thing especially to protect it.

Usage example: the coffin was placed in a cement hull

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Cover and hull are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cover" instead a noun "Hull".

Nearby Words: hulled, hulling

high	high cover	high hull
low	low cover	low hull
original	original cover	original hull
front	front cover	front hull
Other adjectives: single, deep, entire, real, black, dark, main.

They make the shot, explosions cover the outside of the enemy hull, cheer cheer cheer... and then the explosion clears, and they see the ship is totally unharmed.

Source: Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...
Meanwhile, the Hetzer is larger and slower, but mounts a huge, dangerous 200 millimeter autocannon in its hull that has a chance to bring down even the mightiest of 'Mechs with a single hit—without giving it more than a token amount of armor to cover its fragile, boxy hull.

Source: Glass Cannon
The LAMS or Laser Anti-Missile System uses multiple emitter nodes to protect a ship from missile threats; the more emitters across a hull the more area the system can cover and the more targets it can engage at once.

Source: Video Game / From The Depths

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