(n.) A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
(n.) A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
(n.) A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
(n.) A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
(n.) A person wearing a domino.
(n.) A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
(n.) One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a domino effect, everyone got down, one on top of the other.” A 29-year-old woman described blood and flesh that had been blown on to others.
(2) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
(3) De Blasio's first significant act as mayor was to challenge a development plan for the iconic Domino's Sugar factory in Brooklyn – a typical late-Bloomberg, large-scale building project.
(4) I love it when musicians and their instruments sort of become an entity in themselves – you see it with Nina Simone and Ray Charles as well as Fats Domino.
(5) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(6) Driscroll told 3AW that he had not yet received the payment from Domino’s Pizza.
(7) Of course, I am very worried about them.” Separately, at least three people were killed in clashes in the south-western city of Odessa, which has largely resisted the domino effect of pro-Russian separatists taking over Ukrainian cities in the east.
(8) If Italy becomes another domino after a Spanish bailout the anger could be uncontainable (to use a word adopted by Bank of England deputy Paul Tucker in relation to another banking crisis).
(9) It is not known how much Wonga paid for the deal, which includes broadcast, online and mobile sponsorship, but last year's show was sponsored by pizza company Domino's for £1m .
(10) The Domino system and a 1-2 days stay were the preferred options (25 and 24 per cent respectively).
(11) When Domino’s Pizza did not acknowledge or participate in the proceedings, Driscoll was awarded the case by default, with the chain ordered to pay $1,203.27 to cover his legal fees as well as the $37.35 order.
(12) Then there is a domino effect, as reefs fail so will other ecosystems.
(13) The action spread by phone in "a domino effect", stewards said.
(14) On Thursday, Domino’s Australia unveiled a pizza delivery robot in Brisbane.
(15) Domino theorists argue that the impact on the economy, growth and employment would be catastrophic and incalculable.
(16) In what Brown has described as a "domino" strategy, his meetings today with developing countries were planned to produce an agreement about a pledge to curb emissions.
(17) "The more countries that go down this path, the bigger the domino effect.
(18) At the start of this decade Iceland would have made an unlikely candidate for the first sovereign-state domino to fall in the financial meltdown.
(19) An algorithm for the calculation of plausibilities of paternity for the HLA system is presented, which is based on the concept of the game of domino.
(20) … I knew I would be like a domino in the line of fire Christopher Hansen Hansen was at the bar.
Masquerade
Definition:
(n.) An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
(n.) A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4.
(n.) Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
(n.) A Spanish diversion on horseback.
(v. i.) To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.
(v. i.) To frolic or disport in disquise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
(v. t.) To conceal with masks; to disguise.
Example Sentences:
(1) It concludes that psychological structures are recently evolved transactional processes that masquerade as explanatory entities, but obey rules of intentionality: a hypothesis with clinical and forensic implications.
(2) Comment is perfectly legitimate, but the sneering, supercilious, specious and dismissive contributions masquerading as ‘commentary’ belittle the claims of a ‘quality’ paper.” Before attempting to assess the validity of the reader’s analysis – broadly shared by some other readers – I think his email reflects one or two other interesting aspects of the demographics of the Guardian’s readership and the left.
(3) Acalculous cholecystitis is an unusual but serious variant of a common disorder in which treatable gallbladder disease may masquerade as a less treatable liver malady.
(4) Paragonimiasis can masquerade as pulmonary tuberculosis, especially in patients from areas that are endemic for both the parasite and the tubercle bacillus.
(5) The current IRS controversy does not excuse sham political organizations masquerading as social welfare organizations, and shines a light on the critical need for campaign spending disclosure legislation.
(6) The data suggest that duodenal tumors masquerade as more common diseases and as a result, their diagnosis and treatment are delayed inordinately.
(7) When it is bad, as with the Saturday night smugfest currently masquerading as Match of the Day, you want to kick its bottom and sell it off to the nearest Murdoch-owned outlet.
(8) The current chairman of the NRB, Yuri Kudimov, is another veteran of London, although he had returned to Moscow three years before Lebedev's arrival in the UK, after being unmasked as a KGB spy, masquerading as a journalist.
(9) A case of chronic pyelonephritis masquerading as a renal neoplasm in a young adolescent male is presented.
(10) Clinical manifestations of infectious-toxic shock, their polymorphism may masquerade acute pneumonia symptoms and lead to diagnostic errors.
(11) Three cases of childhood acute lymphatic leukaemia masquerading as juvenile chronic arthritis are presented.
(12) Alert gastroenterologists may find some adult cases of Reye's syndrome masquerading as acute neurological disease or supposed acute drug reactions.
(13) A case of cholesterol embolism of bone marrow, concerning the pelvis and lumbar region and clinically masquerading as systemic disease or metastatic tumor, is reported in an 82-year-old man hospitalized for acute onset of reddish purple nodules on the legs and toes, intense myalgia and dorsal vertebral bone pain.
(14) Groove pancreatitis presents various clinical features, such as biliary obstruction, duodenal stenosis, and pancreatic mass, and often masquerades as pancreatic head carcinoma.
(15) Rarely, EPPF may masquerade as a renal pelvic tumor.
(16) The defining journalistic sin of Judith Miller, the New York Times' disgraced WMD reporter, was that she masqueraded the unverified assertions of anonymous Bush officials as reported fact.
(17) The paradox at the heart of the selfie is that it masquerades as a "candid" shot, taken without access to airbrushing or post-production, but in fact, a carefully posed selfie, edited with all the right filters, is a far more appealing prospect than a snatched paparazzo shot taken from a deliberately unflattering angle.
(18) Differential diagnosis poses key problems because some of the masquerade syndromes including juvenile xanthogranuloma and retinoblastoma may confuse the clinician in diagnosis.
(19) Faced with this mutant telly genre masquerading as reality, soaps have become unreal just when we needed them to be otherwise.
(20) One reader wrote: "I am complaining about it because I am utterly tired of sexist rubbish like this masquerading as coverage of fashion or, indeed sport.