Cloaking
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Cloaking is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of cloak.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of cloak.
More Meanings
- The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.
- The material from which cloaks are made.
- (SEO) The technique of presenting search engine spiders with content that differs from that seen by human users, usually for spamdexing purposes.
Example Sentences
Fcy. goods, cassimeres, cloakings, piece dyes, noils, mohair, and raw stock wool and cotton.
May 15, 1555, Hugh Latimer, letter to the lovers of God's truth to take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings
I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.
Word Forms
- cloakings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mask, dissemble, periosteal, enshroudment, overclothing, covering.
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