mask

Meaning

Noun

1. A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
2. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
3. Appearance, likeness.
4. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
5. A person wearing a mask.
6. (obsolete) A dramatic performance in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
7. A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
8. In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
9. A screen for a battery.
10. The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
11. A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
12. A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
13. A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
14. The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.

Verb

1. To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
2. To disguise as something else.
3. To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
4. To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
5. To cover or keep in check.
6. To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
7. To wear a mask.
8. (obsolete) To disguise oneself, to be disguised in any way.
9. To conceal or disguise one's autism.
10. to cover or shield a part of a design or picture in order to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting
11. To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
12. To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
13. To learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.

Verb

1. To mash.
2. (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
3. To be infused or steeped.
4. To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.

Verb

To bewilder; confuse.

Synonyms

disguise

cover

veil

masque

cloak

conceal

masquerade

camouflage

guise

screen

hide

block out

shroud

visor

face guard

masquerade party

drape

wear a mask

mantle

mug

false face

obscure

face mask

bathe

dissemble

masking

shield

🛡️

greasepaint

grow over

head

hush up

image

incase

inhibit

inscribe

masked ball

masquer

obliterate

obstruct

occult

overgrow

pack

paste

pretense

protective cover

pupae

segregant

shade

sheathe

shielding

skin

smother

strew

submerge

white out

trouble

vesture

vizor

whiteout

whitewash

actor’s mask

blank out

drown out

masquerade ball

protective covering

screening

quise

safty goggles

dress of an actor

mound over

face-pack

false front

containment shell

false dress

phototched mask

mask off

protective facing

mask code

masked off

balaclava

court masque

blanket

cake

🍰

canopy

cap

carpet

case

cipher

clothe

cloud over

constrain

cover up

curtain

dissimulate

dress up

encase

encrypt

engulf

enshroud

envelop

extractor

face-piece

fancy-dress ball

fascia

fetish

flash

flood

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɑːsk/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha, a borrowing of Proto-West Germanic *maskā from which English mesh is regularly inherited.
Replaced Old English grīma (“mask”), whence grime, and displaced non-native Middle English viser (“visor, mask”) borrowed from Old French viser, visier.
Compare also Hebrew מַסֵּכָה (masseiḥa).