What's the difference between asker and masker?

Asker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer.
  • (n.) An ask; a water newt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This investigation reports only 16% smokers among pregnant women registered at 18th week of pregnancy in the two municipalities of Asker and Baerum.
  • (2) It’s why I love the Let Me Google That For You website – in which askers of easily answerable questions are sent an automatic link that enters the question into Google, to shame their indolence.
  • (3) At 16:09 the chief of operations in Asker and Bærum, the district through which Breivik was now driving, finally got through to Oslo police district to offer assistance.
  • (4) "Don't ever vote for anyone else," I watched him tell an elderly woman, as askers of genuine questions were physically barred from his presence.
  • (5) We have previously mapped the c-myc to rat chromosome 7 (J. Sümegi, J. Spira, H. Bazin, J. Szpirer, G. Levan, and G. Klein, Nature [London] 306:497-498, 1983) and N-myc and L-myc to rat chromosomes 6 and 5, respectively (S. Ingvarsson, C. Asker, Z. Wirschubsky, J. Szpirer, G. Levan, G. Klein, and J. Sümegi, Somat.
  • (6) Asker and Bærum’s second patrol had been busy with a psychiatric assignment and had been given orders to leave it.
  • (7) At that point in time, the station at Asker and Bærum had three patrol cars at its disposal; the chief of operations rang the closest one and gave the description.

Masker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.
  • (v. t.) To confuse; to stupefy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, three mechanisms are discussed that contribute to the absence of unmasking by masker fluctuations in hearing-impaired listeners.
  • (2) Detectability of a filtered probe tone (250, 500, or 1000 Hz) was measured in the presence of a narrow-band Gaussian masker centered at the signal frequency.
  • (3) For fixed delta T (delta T greater than 3 msec), the masking effect may actually increase for the longer, less intense noises despite the fact that, for long maskers, there is less masker energy near the signal in time.
  • (4) Results indicated that the MLD decreased in magnitude as the interaural phase shift of the masker increased.
  • (5) Forward masking, as measured behaviorally, is defined as an increase in a signal's detection threshold resulting from a preceding masker.
  • (6) Thus the overshoot effect was markedly reduced by aspirin because the drug partially counteracted the normally poor detectability for signals presented soon after masker onset.
  • (7) Masker and signal frequencies were the same as for the first experiment.
  • (8) The iso-forward masking contour near the threshold of the masking effect across masker frequencies approximates a fiber's frequency threshold curve (FTC).
  • (9) In part, the small threshold shifts can be attributed to the reduction in response variance following the masker, which is the result of the adaptation of spontaneous activity.
  • (10) Hence, one cannot predict masked threshold from the acoustic spectra of the maskers used here since they differ from their internal representations.
  • (11) The data support a spectrum-analyzer model of detection in which multiband filtering of the input smooths the masker energy in each spectral region to approximate the Gaussian case.
  • (12) Recent investigations of the masking-level difference (MLD) have often involved measurement of the MLD as a function of masker level.
  • (13) The masker with the largest amplitude fluctuations exhibited greater forward-masking ability than other stimuli; this effect was observed on the high-frequency branch and within the tip region of the tuning curve.
  • (14) The 20-ms signal was presented at the onset or at the temporal center of the 400-ms masker.
  • (15) A reaction time paradigm was used to estimate the sensitivity of four subjects to airpuffs without and during continuous vibration (masker) of low (30 Hz) or high (240 Hz) frequency.
  • (16) The data from all three experiments suggest that threshold signal levels in the presence of interaural differences in masker intensity depend principally on the ear with the higher signal-to-masker ratio at the output of its auditory filter, a finding consistent with the power-spectrum model of masking.
  • (17) Because maskers that are decorrelated yield small MLDs, the MLD is likewise small at low masker levels.
  • (18) For large masker separations, r greater than 0.4, no consistent effects of signal phase were observed.
  • (19) The IMD is dominated by the cubic component (2f1-f2) and arises from the interaction of the probe tone and the simultaneous masker.
  • (20) Masker duration was 20 or 400 ms; in the latter case, the signal was presented in one of three temporal positions within the masker.

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