What's the difference between basking and masking?

Basking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bask

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It followed an unusually wet August, which gave Next and other clothes retailers a good start to the new season but sales of coats and other winter goods have been tough since as many parts of the country have basked in warm sunshine.
  • (2) For Hague, basking in unaccustomed praise for his "decisive action" in the Commons, this was the successful conclusion of a piece of unorthodox diplomacy – which subtly avoided the use of gunboats.
  • (3) Instead, he headed to City Hall, attending Mayor's Question Time to watch Johnson bask in the sunshine to which he himself had been accustomed.
  • (4) On such occasions, one has the distinct sense of a festival simultaneously basking in the limelight while wearing a clothes peg on its nose.
  • (5) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
  • (6) In the bask of the incandescent, you are prone to believe that human beings are essentially good, that tomorrow will be a better day, that love will triumph.
  • (7) Polysaccharide aminoaryl ethers capable of binding to proteins by azocoupling present special interest in view of their utilization as modifying baskings.
  • (8) Just as Brown was basking in a rare upturn in the polls following Barack Obama's visit, he has been derailed.
  • (9) I wish that I could just bask in the knowledge that the pope and the people in the pews share many of my views for a transformed church.
  • (10) When Vladimir Putin stepped into the ring at Olimpisky stadium in Moscow after a martial arts fight at the weekend, he might have been expecting to bask in the glory of the Russian Fedor Emelianenko's victory over the American Jeff Monson.
  • (11) "Colleagues at the trust took the decision to conduct it last summer, when the corporation was basking in the Olympic afterglow – that was before the events of last autumn about which much has been written.
  • (12) Thus Page 3 was able to bask, for the briefest of moments, in its almost accidental association with hippie culture and the sexual revolution.
  • (13) There are Rumpole societies of lawyers basking undeservedly in his popularity from Los Angeles to Perth.
  • (14) The size of the telencephalon, 34% of the total brain, equals that in some other sharks, whereas the cerebellum, 30% of the total brain in the basking shark, is significantly larger than in any other shark investigated.
  • (15) De Bruyne’s finish was immaculate, picking out the bottom corner after Fernandinho’s layoff, and City were left to bask in the warm afterglow of their finest European night of the modern era.
  • (16) On a clear day, the Firth of Clyde looks resplendent from here, basking “gaily in the sunny beam”.
  • (17) Spring is a great time to visit – Chengdu is basking in a balmy 20C, and everywhere trees are in blossom.
  • (18) These high-octane bangers were among the show's strongest moments, allowing both performers to bask in their own unapologetic confidence.
  • (19) The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) only covers three shark species: whale shark, basking shark and great white shark.
  • (20) With incredible complacency, politicians from both sides of parliament basked in the glory and reacted smugly when the US and the eurozone hit a brick wall.

Masking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mask

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The blocking action may have masked and hindered detection of the stimulatory action of barium in other systems.
  • (2) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
  • (3) Though immunocytochemistry did not show staining of synaptic regions this may be due to masking of the reactive epitope.
  • (4) Such factors can mask any interactions between biologic factors of the aging female reproductive system and other social factors that might otherwise detemine fertility during the later reproductive years.
  • (5) The interresponse-time reinforcement contingencies inherent in these schedules may actually mask the effects of overall reinforcement rate; thus differences in response rate as a function of reinforcement rate when interresponse-time reinforcement is eliminated may be underestimated.
  • (6) In gastric cancers the major finding was the occurrence of extensive masking of lectin binding sites by sialic acid which was not seen in normal mucosa.
  • (7) The expression of such secondary and tertiary syphilis is commonly masked and distorted by the long-term effects of subcurative doses of antibiotics; in fact, late latent and tertiary syphilis produce symptoms and immunosuppression similar to the profile of AIDS.
  • (8) After induction of anesthesia, the airway of those in group A was maintained with a conventional tracheal tube; in group B, with a laryngeal mask airway.
  • (9) To determine if the type of mechanical ventilation used (ie, face mask, nasal prongs, or endotracheal tube) was associated with GPNN, a matched case-control analysis was performed.
  • (10) Data were analyzed by investigators who were masked to treatment assignment or phase of study.
  • (11) The air entrainment devices from oxygen masks of four manufacturers (Henleys Medical Supplies Ltd, Vickers Medical, Intersurgical Ltd, C R Bard International Ltd) were studied.
  • (12) North Korea's blustering defiance at the annual US-South Korean exercises masks just a little fear that they could easily be turned into an all-out attack, and seems to work on the principle that the more you shout, the safer you will be.
  • (13) Since headache can often represent the warning symptom of a masked depression, in the present study sulpiride has been administered to patients suffering from nonorganic headache syndromes.
  • (14) • Police would be given discretion to remove face masks from people on the street "under any circumstances where there is reasonable suspicion that they are related to criminal activity".
  • (15) Analyses of this artificial curve allow estimation of that part of the internal interactions uninfluenced by the masking effect.
  • (16) Compared to previous masking studies of orientation selective units, non-oriented units have somewhat broader spatial frequency sensitivity curves, in agreement with primate neurophysiology.
  • (17) The contralateral masked condition was performed using 30-dB-SL 400-Hz narrow-band masking noise centered at frequency of test tone.
  • (18) But the research drills down into the data to examine different cohorts separately, and discovers that reassuring overall averages are masking some striking variations.
  • (19) Older subjects were found to be significantly more susceptible to the backward masking effect over longer delays between the target and masking stimuli.
  • (20) We have compared an alternative breathing system for preoxygenation comprising a Hudson face mask with high oxygen inflow (48 litre min-1) and a Mapleson A breathing system (100 ml kg-1 min-1).