Umbrella

Umbrella Meanings:

• A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted in, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol
• The umbrellalike disk, or swimming bell, of a jellyfish
• Any marine tectibranchiate gastropod of the genus Umbrella, having an umbrella-shaped shell; -- called also umbrella shell
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ʌmˈbɹɛlə/
• (figurative) Anything that provides protection.
• (figurative) Something that covers a wide range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
• (photography, television) An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
• bumbershoot, umbershoot (both US slang)
• “umbrella”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “umbrella”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• (transitive) To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.
• (intransitive) To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.
• (intransitive) To move like a jellyfish.
• (Surmiran, Vallader) umbrella, parasol
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) parisol