(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.
Rust
Definition:
(v. i.) To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.
(n.) The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.
(n.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.
(n.) That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.
(n.) A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.
(n.) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.
(n.) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.
(v. i.) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
(v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
(v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
(v. t.) To impair by time and inactivity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reasoning in Rust v Sullivan allows government to limit freedom of speech in federally funded programs.
(2) Here, abandoned cars don’t just sit and rust, they are swallowed by the jungle.
(3) The cause, they claimed, was emissions from the mine's sulphuric acid factory as well as outflow from mountains of rust-red waste, dumped over 15 years with little concern for the environment.
(4) The bean rust fungus, Uromyces appendiculatus, undergoes thigmotropic differentiation to produce infection structures.
(5) Pain relief is more rapid after electric drill removal; this is probably related to the complete removal of the rust.
(6) And no wonder: unemployment in the Garden State is at a 35-year high of 9.8% – the fourth-worst in the nation – and unlike in the Rust Belt states or other hard-hit regions, in Jersey unemployment is still climbing .
(7) Hill, who cut an unusual touchline figure in green jacket and rust cords, preferred to praise Wednesday for the quality of their set plays rather than blast his defenders for their inability to defend them.
(8) Worse, pests like the berry borer beetle and leaf rust fungus are flourishing as the world warms.
(9) The rusted bike was found in a large white container where its owner, Ikuo Yokoyama, had kept it.
(10) Mr X invested money into buying old equipment from other abandoned coal mines – this was not difficult because abandoned mines with rusting equipment are not in short supply in North Korea today.
(11) This week a beachcomber in British Columbia found a moving crate containing a rusting Harley-Davidson motorcycle registered to Japan's Miyagi prefecture, which absorbed the brunt of the tsunami.
(12) One white lump sits beside the rusted-out remains of a bucket.
(13) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
(14) The Trump vote contained rednecks and inhabitants of the rust belt, just as south Wales and Sunderland turned out for Brexit – but in neither case was that the whole story.
(15) The best actress award Last year Marion Cotillard's turn in Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone , as a waterpark trainer who loses her legs, was beaten to the best actress award by two troubled nuns in Romanian drama Beyond the Hills.
(16) Basidiomycetes, a complex and common group of fungi, which include mushrooms, rusts, smuts, brackets, and puffballs, have not been well studied.
(17) Naturally, insider accounts suggest electoral calculation : Trump reckoned that the people who put him in the White House, especially blue collar workers in the rust-belt states, have long seen global warming as a con.
(18) We cannot let that happen.” “He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia,” she said, adding at another point in the speech: “This isn’t reality television, this is actual reality.” Later, Clinton added: “It is not hard to see how a Trump presidency could lead to a global economic crisis.” The former secretary of state’s speech, staged in front of a wall of US flags, rebutted a foreign policy address Trump made in April in which he promised to save “humanity itself” and “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy”.
(19) Where other politicians might be accused of dog-whistle politics, Trump was broadcasting at a frequency accessible to all, exploiting the nation’s three biggest weaknesses: rust, race and ignorance.
(20) Steel surfaces can be treated with zinc and chromates to prevent the steel from rusting.