What's the difference between disguise and incognito?
Disguise
Definition:
(v. t.) To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.
(v. t.) To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.
(v. t.) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
(n.) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.
(n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.
(n.) Change of manner by drink; intoxication.
(n.) A masque or masquerade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Put simply, there would have to be evidence that ultra-low oil prices are having only a temporary downward impact on inflation and have helped disguise upward pressure on wages caused by falling unemployment.
(2) Watson asked if the donations from Grugeon and McCloy were disguised, “because they were both gentlemen who could make money if they had a favourable decision in respect of Wallalong”.
(3) The retail consultancy said there was no disguising that 2008 was "an annus horribilis" for the retail sector and there was little prospect of improvement in 2009.
(4) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
(5) Her most notorious performance came during the Falklands war of 1982 when she made little or no effort to disguise her distaste for American diplomatic support of Britain.
(6) Climate change funding should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.
(7) The litigation revealed that Mr Mercer, who had a history of infiltrating peace groups such as CND, had disguised his dealings with BAE from his home in Loughborough.
(8) But in their second half Osborne will struggle to disguise how many more people he is deliberately sending deeper into all too real danger.
(9) Senior colleagues don’t much disguise their feeling that there are better ways to spend that sort of money.
(10) Police said they found wigs, glasses and other disguises in his room.
(11) Disguised as "trainers", these lethal aircraft were used against the villages of East Timor.
(12) He was a master of disguise, as he demonstrated in the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949), with a multiplicity of roles.
(13) Strachan, whose shyness is routinely disguised by attempts at comedy, responded with a wave.
(14) Dr John Philpott, director of The Jobs Economist , said the scale of mental health issues could be even higher, though disguised by employees giving other reasons for their absence.
(15) Too much, perhaps: my next book features, in thin disguise, Ken Tynan.
(16) Owing to its confusional characteristics, envy is always subtly disguised and hardly ever appears in a straightforward manner.
(17) If so, it will provide the most compelling evidence yet that the News of the World's "rogue reporter" defence was a ruse designed to disguise the true extent of phone hacking at the paper.
(18) Previous research on the use of disguise in structured tests of psychopathology is extended to a clinical population.
(19) Dissociated and disguised measures of academic preferences and perceptions completed weeks later produced even more dramatic results: The continuing impact of initial outcomes was generally greater for discounting than no-discounting subjects.
(20) She is Odysseus's protector in the Odyssey, on hand to provide magical disguises or pep-talks.
Incognito
Definition:
(a. / adv.) Without being known; in disguise; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title; -- said esp. of great personages who sometimes adopt a disguise or an assumed character in order to avoid notice.
(a.) One unknown or in disguise, or under an assumed character or name.
(a.) The assumption of disguise or of a feigned character; the state of being in disguise or not recognized.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the reported claims against Incognito, which he has denied, is that he pressured Martin, a left tackle in his second year with the Dolphins, to pay $15,000 towards an unofficial players’ trip to Las Vegas that he did not attend.
(2) Instead, she spent the first weeks of her marriage in jeans and T-shirt, travelling incognito around the rural areas of Syria.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Incognito … Matthew Rhys in The Americans.
(4) 7.26pm GMT Incognito A story here from my colleague Martin Pengelly, with details on the Incognito interview we mentioned earlier .
(5) The rapper was recently quoted in the Florence newspaper La Nazione as saying he and Kardashian had come to Florence previously incognito and he believed that their daughter, North, was conceived "among the Renaissance masterpieces".
(6) The bladderwort ( utricularia ), incognito like a snapdragon, has an ingenious underground lair, vacuum-sucking insects to chambers where they are acidified; pitchers are outwardly passive, but inside their cavernous depths float a mass of drowned flies.
(7) Unequivocally, there was no leadership in the Miami Dolphins organization, leading to Richie Incognito bullying Jonathan Martin , forcing Martin to leave the team.
(8) An investigation conducted for the NFL determined Incognito and two other offensive linemen engaged in persistent harassment of tackle Jonathan Martin , another offensive lineman and an assistant trainer.
(9) Current and ex-players around the NFL say the situation reflects a lack of leadership because teammates of Martin and Incognito didn't intervene.
(10) Philbin said Martin did not inform him of problems with his teammates at the time, but that representatives notified him later about repeated harassment and that after gathering more information the decision was made to suspend Incognito.
(11) Later on Sunday, Clinton dined, apparently incognito, at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in the swing state of Ohio, where she ordered a chicken burrito bowl with guacamole and “no one really noticed”, the restaurant’s manager told the Guardian.
(12) This, too, is abuse and mistreatment.” The therapist, who says he becomes like a big brother to the patients, said it was important to take the children out of their normal environment, and even brings them “incognito” to anti-mafia events.
(13) Steve Coppell should take some credit for that.” The club’s former manager, beanie hat pulled down to keep him as incognito as possible, was in with the supporters from south London here and he would have purred in satisfaction at that opener, lifted as it was straight from the script of Villa Park and a celebrated set-piece dissection of the last truly great Liverpool side.
(14) There's no suggestion that United would do anything against the rules but generally speaking, it's why incognito, clandestine meetings occur out of the public eye in hotel suites with as few people as possible present; I have met managers under contract to other clubs in such situations.
(15) Incognito, a self-described “wild child” on his Twitter profile, is alleged to have sent Martin a series of threatening text messages and at least one voicemail in which he called Martin a "half nigger", according to ESPN.
(16) The trailer offers a quick glance at what is expected to be Spectre’s opening scene, with 007 wading through the crowds incognito in a skull-like mask, then shifting to assassin mode with a sniper’s rifle opposite his target’s window.
(17) How he came to put the plan together is the stuff of Disney legend – the numerous trips he took in private jets disguised so that no one would spot him, the front companies he set up to buy the land also incognito, the 30,000 acres he acquired before anyone noticed.
(18) It was also Philbin who promoted Incognito to the team’s five man ‘leadership council.’ Now it is his own leadership qualities that are being called into question.
(19) Incognito's words echoed those of the Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill, earlier in the week .
(20) According to a report by ESPN , Incognito sent Martin text messages, which included threats to the other player and his family, and "at least one" voicemail in which he called Martin "a half-nigger".