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a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury
wax provided protection for the floors
they had no protection from the fallout - the tough natural covering of some organisms
How To Use protective covering In A Sentence
- a bare hillside. Naked can mean 'without a protective covering':a naked sword.
- A sea-urchin egg is surrounded by a protective covering known as the vitelline envelope, which in turn is covered with a thick coat of jelly.
- With this object in view aluminium has been added from a separate crucible to the molten zinc at the moment of dipping the article to be zinced, so as to form a compound surface of zinco-aluminium, and to reduce the ashes formed from the protective coverings of sal-ammoniac, fat, glycerine, etc. Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing
- The insect's shell gives it a tough protective covering.
- In fruit flies, epidermal cells secrete the cuticle, a protective covering for the organism.
- a bare hillside. Naked can mean 'without a protective covering':a naked sword.
- Rangers had to go to the expense of putting £30,000-worth of protective covering over the pitch after a day of persistent rain.
- A demyelinating disease is any condition that results in damage to the protective covering (myelin sheath) that surrounds nerves in your brain and spinal cord.
- The insect's shell gives it a tough protective covering.
- At least 6 inches of airspace should be between the ammunition and protective covering on the sides, 6 inches of dunnage should be on the bottom, and the roof should be 18 inches from the top of the stack.