{
  "id": "cover.object",
  "term": "cover",
  "sense": "object",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is on top of another thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "boundary.limit",
      "top.upper"
    ],
    "interaction": "The substance is placed over a boundary so that it lies on top of something else.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "topmost position",
      "protective layer",
      "spatial containment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The lid of the Apollo 11 sample container sealed moon rocks inside, preserving their vacuum exposure until opened in Houston.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Antarctica's ice sheet covers 98% of the continent, averaging 2.1 kilometers thick and resting on bedrock below sea level.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The BIOS password on a Dell Latitude 5400 blocks access to firmware settings until the correct credentials are entered.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "structure.arrangement",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a cover is a kind of arrangement of parts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "clothing.apparel",
    "fur.material",
    "protection.security",
    "shelter.protection",
    "shoes.clothing"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "cover",
    "covered",
    "covering",
    "covers"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'top.upper' as a constituent component because the definition relies on the notion of 'top'; without it, the concept of a cover as an object cannot be fully formed. The original definition was c"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cover.object"
}