Mask

Noun

 * 1) A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
 * a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask
 * 1) That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
 * 2) A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show - Francis Bacon
 * 3) * John Milton:
 * This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask.
 * 1)  A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
 * 2)  A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
 * 3)  In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
 * 4)  A screen for a battery
 * 5)  The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
 * 6)  A ceremonial object used in Puebloan kachina cults that resembles a Euro-American masks. (The term is objected as an appropriate translation by Puebloan peoples as it emphasizes imitation but ignores power and representational intent.)
 * 7)  A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
 * 8)  A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.

Derived terms

 * death mask
 * Mask house, (Obsolete), a house for masquerades
 * sleep mask
 * unmask

Verb

 * 1)  To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
 * 2) * Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, IV,vi:
 * They must all be masked and vizarded
 * 1)  To disguise; to cover; to hide.
 * 2) * Shakespeare, Macbeth, III-i:
 * Masking the business from the common eye
 * 1)  To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
 * 2)  To cover or keep in check.
 * to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out
 * 1)  To take part as a masker in a masquerade
 * 2) * Cavendish.
 * 3)  To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way
 * 4) * Shakespeare.

Adjectives for Mask
servile  crescentlike;   grisly;   laughing; smiling; newest; impenetrable; lifeless; impassive; theatrical; acquired; hideous; wanton; deceitful; well-trained; sun-expelling; dainty; waxen; placid; tragic; changing; child-faced; stately.

Verbs for Mask
adjust—; cloak with—; doff—; emerge from —; fashion—; —beguiles; —blinds; —conceals; —deceives; —deludes; —depicts; — disguises; —eclipses; —lures; —portrays; —veils; don—.

Adverbs for Mask
partially; cunningly; demurely; servilely; impassively; wantonly; deceitfully; daintily; tragically; deceptively; treachero

Thesaurus
Kaffeeklatsch, aegis, affectation, air, alibi, anaglyph, apology, appearance, apply to, arm guard, aspect, backstop, bal, bal costume, bal masque, ball, barn dance, bas-relief, becloud, befog, belie, blanket, blind, block, blowout, blur, boss, buffer, bulwark, bumper, cameo, cameo glass, camouflage, canopy, cavo-rilievo, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, cocktail party, coffee klatch, color, coloring, conceal, concealment, contraceptive, cope, copyright, costume party, country dance, cover, cover story, cover up, cover-up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, crash helmet, curtain, cushion, cut glass, dance, dashboard, defend, device, dinner, dinner party, disguise, dissemble, dissembling, dissimulate, dissimulation, distort, distract attention from, dodger, domino, donation party, drape, drapery, dress up, eclipse, embellish, embossment, embroider, ensconce, enshroud, entertainment, envelop, excuse, facade, face, face mask, fakery, false colors, false face, false front, falsify, fancy-dress ball, feint, fender, festivity, film, finger guard, foot guard, front, fudge, fuse, garble, garden party, gild, gloss, gloss over, glyph, glyptograph, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, guise, hand guard, handle, handrail, hanging, hard hat, helmet, hen party, hide, high relief, hood, hop, house party, house-raising, housewarming, housing, incognito, insulation, intaglio, intaglio rilevato, intaglio rilievo, interlock, keep under cover, knee guard, knuckle guard, lame excuse, laminated glass, lawn party, lay on, lay over, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, locus standi, low relief, mantle, masked ball, masque, masquerade, masquerade ball, masquerade party, medal, medallion, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, mixer, mudguard, muffle, muffler, mummery, nose guard, obduce, obfuscate, obscure, occult, ostensible motive, overlay, overspread, overstate, pad, padding, pall, palladium, party, patent, pervert, pilot, plaquette, poor excuse, pose, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, preventive, prom, promenade, prophylactic, protect, protective clothing, protective coloration, protective umbrella, protestation, public motive, put on, put-off, put-on, record hop, refuge, relief, relievo, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, sculptured glass, scum, seat belt, secrete, seeming, semblance, shade, sham, shelter, shield, shin guard, shindig, shindy, show, shower, shroud, simulation, slant, slur over, smoke screen, smoker, spread over, square dance, stag, stag dance, stag party, stalking-horse, strain, stratagem, subterfuge, sun helmet, superimpose, superpose, surprise party, tea dance, the dansant, titivate, trick, trick out, twist, umbrella, understate, varnish, veil, veneer, vestment, visor, vizard, vizard mask, warp, whitewash, window dressing, windscreen, windshield

Etymology
From masque:, from  maschera 'mask, disguise', from  masca:, mascha, mascus 'mask, nightmare, ghost', of uncertain origin. Replaced grīma "mask".

masca:, mascha, mascus may represent the merger of two or more words: one related to mascurer 'to blacken, cover the face' (compare  mascarar,  mascarar), a conflation of a  source (from assumed  *undefined:) represented by  mæscre 'mesh; discoloration, spot',  masc 'net, mesh netting',  māsca 'mesh, ties', all from  from, from the practice of wearing mesh netting over the face as a mask to filter air, keeping soot and dust particles from entering the lungs (compare surgical mask, gas mask, etc.), and a stem *maska, *mask- 'black' believed to be of Pre-Indo-European origin giving rise to words meaning 'witch, wizard, sorcerer' (compare  masco 'witch',  masca 'witch',  masque 'brothel-keeper, witch'); and another perhaps from Arabic  (maskhara(t)) “buffoon, fool, pleasantry, anything ridiculous” <  (sakhira) “to ridicule, to laugh at”.


 * Derived from the -r- form: Italian maschera:, Spanish and Portuguese máscara, Dutch masker:, English masquerade.
 * Derived from the form lacking -r-: German Maske: and Swedish mask:.

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: (dimak)
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: màscara
 * Czech:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: προσωπίδα,,  προσωπείο
 * Hebrew: מסכה,  צעיף
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:


 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: mască
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: кринка,, крабуља, ličina, obrazina
 * Ukrainian:


 * Armenian: (dimak)
 * Catalan: màscara
 * German:
 * Greek: μεταμφίεση


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian: mască
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Greek: μεταμφίεση


 * Catalan: mascarada


 * : 1. 가면 /gamiən/, 탈 /tal/
 * 2. 복면 /bokmiən/
 * 3. 가면 무도회 /gamiən mudohoi/
 * 4. 가면극 /gamiənkuk/


 * : (1,2), maskerad (3)
 * : maske(1)
 * : قناع
 * : masque
 * : máscara
 * : aghaidh-choimheach
 * : máscara

Verb

 * Catalan: emmascarar
 * Dutch:


 * German:


 * Catalan: emmascarar
 * German:


 * Romanian: deghiza, masca, ascunde


 * Esperanto:


 * German: sich maskieren


 * : 1. 가면을 쓰다,복면을 하다, 복면을 쓰다
 * 2. 변장하다, 위장하다, 숨기다
 * 3. 숨기다
 * 4. 위장하다


 * : maskera (1,2,4)
 * : maskeleme (2)

Anagrams

 * maks

Noun

 * 1) worm

Derived terms

 * daggmask

Noun

 * 1) mask; a cover designed to disguise or protect the face

Derived terms

 * maskera
 * maskerad
 * maskering

Etymology 1
From maðkr: ( maþker:). Cognate with English mawk:, Danish maddike: and Finnish matikka:.

Etymology 2
From masque: <  masca:. Details: see above, mask.