(n.) One who wears a disguise; an actor in a masquerade; a masker.
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should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.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.
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.