(n.) The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time, many of the buildings along the road have had their facades cleaned.
(2) And yet I sense a crumbling of the monumental Boris facade, the great artificial construct designed to make him prime minister, for reasons I have never understood.
(3) Yet beneath the facade of implacable command was a moody, capricious man with a strained marriage: while he was in India, his wife Edwina had allegedly conducted an affair with the Indian politician Nehru.
(4) Yet for all the colourful cushions, plants, rustic ivy-lined facade and local artworks, it’s the nouveau prices that most appeal.
(5) Seven years later, the terms most frequently used to describe Mali's democracy during that era are "sham", "facade" and "empty shell".
(6) Houses with shattered windows were marked by bullet holes in their facades.
(7) "The organisers of this scam went to great lengths to provide a facade of legitimacy.
(8) They are looking into concrete formwork, the concrete that you’ll see next to the expressways, and facades of buildings.
(9) And then there is the erotic element, Scott's hint that "behind the facade of pots and pans there is sometimes another image … a private one … sensed rather than seen".
(10) Earlier in the evening, a number of demonstrators attacked a branch of Starbucks, smashing its front windows and ransacking it before shattering the facade of a clothes shop.
(11) Anti-Fifa campaigners make their Marx Anti-Fifa campaigners have spread their message in illuminating style by beaming a protest slogan on to the facade of a hotel in Rio de Janeiro where football officials were staying.
(12) The project’s co-director Max Wakefield says: “By helping people create tangible relationships with energy, we can enable an understanding of the need to reduce demand.” Despite the private tech industry’s seeming invincibility in many areas of consumer life, from copyright to privacy , there are cracks in the facade .
(13) Only once during the trial did a crack appear in his dispassionate facade.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kaisa-talo blends into the historic facade of the city There are a number of terrific old buildings in the city, but I’m going to pick Helsinki University’s new library building, Kaisa-talo.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest However, behind the nihilistic, numb facade of his new character, the Thin White Duke, Bowie was in trouble.
(16) Scratch at our egalitarian facade, I say, and you'll discover inequalities of means and wealth that even Louis XIV would never have dared contemplate.
(17) There is no link with the surrounding city to be found, not even a true facade.
(18) "Behind an orderly facade, the government pressured, intimidated and threatened Ethiopian voters," Rona Peligal, the acting Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said.
(19) Behind the facade, though, North Koreans want the same things as just about everyone else - or at least that's what defector after defector has said.
(20) More profoundly, the presidency itself was revealed to be an empty facade when Putin handed it over for a term, minus its powers, to Medvedev.
Mask
Definition:
(n.) A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.
(n.) That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
(n.) A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.
(n.) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
(n.) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
(n.) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
(n.) A screen for a battery.
(n.) The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
(v. t.) To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
(v. t.) To disguise; to cover; to hide.
(v. t.) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
(v. t.) To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.
(v. i.) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
(v. i.) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
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).