Umbrella

/ʌmˈbɹɛl.ə/ · noun

Meaning

A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun..

Definitions by Sense

1. A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
2. (figurative) Anything that provides similar protection.
3. (figurative) Anything that provides similar overarching coverage of a range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
4. (ice hockey) A strategy in which five players in the offensive zone form an umbrella-shaped formation around the opposition's goal net.
5. The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
6. (photography, television) An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
7. (transitive) To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.
8. (intransitive) To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.

Example Sentences

Quick, grab that umbrella before you get rained on!

There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

When the [lost property] office first opened, the most frequently lost items were umbrellas. Every white-collar professional carried one, but despite, or because of, that they were easily forgotten about. […] In the 1930s, a quarter of a million umbrellas a year came into the office. Now it's more like 10,000.

The fighters provide a defensive air umbrella over the battle group.

The test facility was established under the umbrella of the company's quality program.

Jellyfish are composed of more than 90% water and most of their umbrella mass is made up of gelatinous material.

Using umbrellas for shooting a wedding party is ok, but not necessary.

Experts with saws and ladders came and lopped off the lower branches. This sent the tree's growth rushing violently to her head in a lush overhanging which umbrellaed the House of All Sorts.

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Word Forms

• umbrellas
• humbrella
• ombrella
• umbrello
• umbreller
• brella
• umbrellaing
• umbrellaed

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