(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).
Unmask
Definition:
(v. t.) To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.
(v. i.) To put off a mask.
Example Sentences:
(1) Day by day we strive to unmask all the lies told to citizens.
(2) These data indicate that Ba2+ blocked the major K+ conductance(s) of the RPE apical membrane and unmasked a slowing of the normally hyperpolarizing electrogenic Na+-K+ pump caused by lowering [K+]o.
(3) These data indicate that ACE inhibitors are able to unmask a release of bradykinin from cultured human endothelial cells.
(4) These antibodies recognized only this epitope when unmasked from the entire precursor, allowing the detection of the [1-72] domain which was isolated from pancreatic islets extracts.
(5) Finally, three mechanisms are discussed that contribute to the absence of unmasking by masker fluctuations in hearing-impaired listeners.
(6) Intravenous dipyridamole-thallium imaging unmasks ischemia in patients unable to exercise adequately.
(7) In this experiment, observers were asked to match the loudness of partially masked test-tone bursts in one ear by adjusting the level of unmasked bursts presented to the other ear.
(8) Fractionation by Percoll density centrifugation of peripheral blood leucocyte cells, from atopic subjects with seasonal hay fever, unmasked IgE-B cell populations whose individual capacities to synthesize IgE in vitro were obscured in cultures of unfractionated B cells.
(9) Pb also appeared to unmask an afterdischarge in some neurons following noxious mechanical stimulation.
(10) Since LOH is supposed to unmask the recessive mutation of tumor suppressor gene in the remaining allele, these results may imply that at least six genetic alterations are necessary to convert a normal cell into a fully malignant cancer cell in SCLC.
(11) Simultaneous addition of vasopressin or cyclic AMP (+ theophylline) and NTCB resulted in marked synergism, presumably as a result of unmasking of SH groups by the the hormone (or the intermediate).
(12) Sialidase-induced desialylation of these natural substrates unmasks saccharides that are specifically recognized by the peanut agglutinin lectin (PNA).
(13) This treatment also decreased the amount of herpes-specific IgG and IgM detected by radioimmunoassay, whereas it increased and even unmasked the amount of herpes-specific IgA detected.
(14) Therefore, the effect of BHQ appears to involve unmasking of passive Ca(2+)-permeation pathways in the plasma and intracellular membranes that do not respond to cholecystokinin octapeptide, following its described inhibition of the internal-store Ca2+ pumps responsible for accumulating Ca2+ in these pools.
(15) Lastly this investigation was conducted both in normal and endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide from Escherichia coli) treated HI and LI mice in an attempt to unmask the hypothesized difference by increasing the macrophage oxidative response capacity.
(16) These analyses unmasked unique attributes of spontaneous LH secretory events, which were represented as delimited momentary augmentations in endogenous LH secretory rates interspersed among intervals of relative secretory quiescence.
(17) We investigated which components of the cytosol mimicking medium are important for latency of DHAP-AT and unmasking of latent DHAP-AT activity by ATP.
(18) L-NOARG (10(-5) M) abolished all relaxation, and unmasked a contractile component; D-NOARG had no effect.
(19) Ashley probably hasn’t had any sleep this week, so hopefully he’s left the spooky eyebags unmasked.
(20) Interruption of vagal reflexes by cervical vagotomy prevents these inhibitory responses but does not unmask expected increases in either renal SNA or HR.