(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).
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.