(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.
Party
Definition:
(v.) A part or portion.
(v.) A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.
(v.) A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.
(v.) A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.
(v.) One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.
(v.) The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.
(v.) Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.
(v.) Cause; side; interest.
(v.) A person; as, he is a queer party.
(v.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
(v.) Partial; favoring one party.
(adv.) Partly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(3) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(4) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
(5) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(6) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(7) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(8) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(9) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
(10) A “significant” number of resignations from the party had come in on Tuesday and Giles queried whether the CLP still had the 500 members it needs to remain registered.
(11) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
(12) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(13) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
(14) Canvassing previous Labour voters who were pro-independence or still undecided during the referendum, McGarry hears complaints that the party is no longer socialist and should not have sided with the Tories at the referendum.
(15) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(16) Sharif's family insist that he still runs the party from jail.
(17) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(18) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(19) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
(20) The Nazi party’s office of racial purity claimed that the Jewish character was essentially drug-dependent.