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Meaning mask meaning

What does mask mean?
Definitions in simple English

mask Noun

— A mask is something you wear over your face for protection, or to disguise yourself. The health ministry recommended wearing masks when going outdoors due to the forest fires in the next town.

mask

— noun a covering to disguise or conceal the face — noun activity that tries to conceal something no mask could conceal his ignorance they moved in under a mask of friendship — verb put a mask on or cover with a mask Mask the children for Halloween — verb hide under a false appearance He masked his disappointment — verb cover with a sauce mask the meat — verb shield from light — noun a protective covering worn over the face — verb (= disguise) make unrecognizable The herb masks the garlic taste We disguised our faces before robbing the bank — noun a party of guests wearing costumes and masks

Synonyms mask synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as mask?

mask English » English

disguise cover veil masque cloak masquerade conceal camouflage screen hide guise visor shroud block out wear a mask shield obscure mug masquerade party masking mantle false face face mask face guard drape dissemble bathe whitewash whiteout white out vizor vesture trouble submerge strew smother skin shielding sheathe shade segregant screening safty goggles quise pupae protective facing protective covering protective cover pretense phototched mask

Topics mask topics

What do people use mask to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive See

Visible
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Hide your thoughts
Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Steal
Physical actions Arrange Put

Fill, cover
Person Sense, perceive

Smell

Conjugation mask conjugation

How do you conjugate mask?

mask · verb

Examples mask examples

How do I use mask in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The policeman is wearing a gas mask.
You are not allowed to go out without a mask.
The man wore a mask of a tiger.
How come you ate the cucumber, you dimwit? You knew that I wanted to make a cucumber mask!
No one will recognize her in this mask.
That man was wearing a tiger mask.
The world is a grand ball in which everyone wears a mask.
My mom looked funny with a mud mask on her face and rollers in her hair.
Tom bought a mask and a snorkel so he could go snorkeling with his friends.
Give a man a mask and he'll tell the truth.
Tom is wearing a mask.
Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.
He wore a mask so that no one could recognize him.
He wore a mask so no one would recognize him.
Tom was wearing a mask to conceal his identity.
Tom carefully took off his mask.
Don't take your mask off.

Movie subtitles

The mask might be a bit uncomfortable while the painkillers kick in.
Laryngeal mask.
Let's get her a face mask.
Face mask, burns box, resus.
My dear Christine You are in no peril as long as you do not touch my mask.
And then I go and give up my mask to save her.
Well, they laughed at me for sticking to my gas mask. But thanks to that, I'm here and everyone else is sleeping.
It's like hiding behind a mask.
Who're you to talk about a mask?
You've been wearing a mask ever since we met you.
Why not take your mask off for once?
What mask?
Then go and get your gas mask.
Take off that mask.
Let's see who's hiding behind this mask.
I want to throw off his mask.
Let me first see your face without the mask.
After his success in Frankenstein, and to a lesser extent, The Mask of Fu Manchu, on loan to MGM, and The Mummy, back at his home studio, Universal regarded him as a full-fledged star, and all along had planned for him to do The Invisible Man.
Why don't you take off your mask?
Come on now, take off your mask!
My mother seemed very happy when I left. Only a mother's mask.
I'm wondering if this make-up doesn't mask my range of expressions.
Has gone and left a bitter, aging mask.
Hide that mask!
She had a mask on like everybody else.
Did you ever hear of such a thing as a death mask?
And the face, from the glimpse I got of it was like an African war mask.
I don't want a plain woman's mask.
Does anybody want to change your mask with his?
Can you draw a moustache on this mask?
I don't need your mask.
I see. Take off your mask and let me see your face.
His face a mask of terror.
Take your mask off.
Now, the Mask and Foil Club is ideally select. Besides I love to watch fencing.
Waiting for the wretched blackmailer. to remove his mask and begin his blackmailing.

News and current affairs

But these statistics mask a glaring fact: the average American family is worse off than it was three and half years ago.
Praetorian takeover: The People's Liberation Army rules from behind a civilian mask, increasingly calling the shots with government officials, who are beholden to it.
Today's crisis indicates that a set of rigid rules allows resourceful financial institutions to mask riskiness in their portfolios or shift things around to make standard risk metrics appear better than they really are.
In economic matters, disagreements on, say, a single EU regulation should not be allowed to mask the fact that no member state, new or old, has ever contested the internal market.
But that debate should not be allowed to mask the truth behind this treaty: the DR-CAFTA is more a pleading of special interests than a free-trade deal.
As long as urban areas are socially and economically deprived, communitarianism will only serve to mask the violation of the principle of equality.
While image consultants and acting ability can mask a candidate's character, an integrated life over time is the best basis to judge the authenticity of the next president's temperament and how he will govern.
Instead, a crippling malaise has engulfed the Kingdom, as Saudi Arabia's peculiar inertia has produced idle talk of reform that cannot mask the realities of stagnation.
These changes hit the poorest the hardest, and global trends mask deep regional disparities.
Government efforts to manipulate or block information should be presumed to be an abuse of power - one intended to mask many other abuses.
But Europeans' interest in this presidential election cannot mask the fact that what they expect from it is far from clear.
The city's financial success stories mask a darker reality - quality of life for many city-dwellers has deteriorated over recent years.
But force of character cannot mask real problems and a changing political agenda.
Without this conviction the letter of the law is nothing but a mask for bureaucratic caprice and authoritarian will.
It will be even worse if the EU countries try to mask their screening activities by inviting only diplomats to embassy celebrations in Cuba.
According to him, nothing would be more dangerous than to impose an artificial silence on a question that is boiling under the mask of political correctness.
The global economic crisis has merely helped to mask chronic structural imbalances within the region.
Worse, direct talks have not only failed to produce the desired results; their continuation has also helped to mask widespread construction of Israeli colonies on Palestinian territory.
In personal relationships, denial tends to mask imbalances - but only for so long.
These average rates mask stark differences between countries.

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