Cover
Cover verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.
Referring to and cover are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Referring to" with "Cover", this verbs are similar.
Referring to
Cover and referring to are semantically related in make mention topic. Sometimes you can use "Cover" instead a verb "Referring to".
Both terms in one sentence
- In girl group Girlicious' cover, instead of the male narrator admiring a sexy bitch, the song is turned around so that a female narrator is referring to herself as a sexy bitch.
Source: The Cover Changes the Meaning - Pinmonkey's cover of Matraca Berg's "That Train Don't Run", which is about being haunted by a former lover, so that all the pronouns referring to the lover were female instead of the original's male.
Source: The Cover Changes the Gender - They Might Be Giants did a cover of "Bills, Bills, Bills" by Destiny's Child that left in all the lyrics referring to the subject of the song as a man.
Source: The Cover Changes the Gender
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