Word Finder - mask

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A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.

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a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask

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That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.

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A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade

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A person wearing a mask.

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A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.

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A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like

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• mascaron

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(fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.

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(fortification) A screen for a battery

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The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.

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(Puebloan) A ceremonial object used in Puebloan kachina cults that resembles a Euro-American mask. (The term is objected to as an appropriate translation by Puebloan peoples as it emphasizes imitation but ignores power and representational intent.)

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A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.

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A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.

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The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.

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To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.

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To disguise; to cover; to hide.

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To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.

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To cover or keep in check.

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to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out

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To take part as a masker in a masquerade

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To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way

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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

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To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.

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To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.

His face was a mask of fright.

He dropped the mask on the ground.

And yet, didn't clinical words like selective reduction and gestational carrier mask the facts?

Brady pulled off his mask, trotting towards her.

He truly lost himself in music and the hard mask of self-control gave way to softening features.

He removed his hood and mask and inched away from the stranger.

The stocky man was hooded, wore a mask and was already in the room!

Brady tugged Dan's mask off, gaze roving the compound.

In 1750 he decided not to take holy orders, giving as his reason, according to Dupont de Nemours, "that he could not bear to wear a mask all his life."

We see a black crow tightly holding a human mask which he is in the act of incubating.

I don't think it would be fashionable if I wore a ski mask.

He wore a mask and spent a lot of time in the apartment.

Partly because of the way he worded things, but mostly because he tried to mask his emotions - like Alex.

He had no emotions, like a man in a Halloween mask.

The doctor pulled at the mask that hung below his mouth, and for the first time, sounded interested.

He gaped at her, his face a mask of shock.

His face didn't look rubbery like a Halloween mask, but he didn't look normal.

Xander's eyes settled on the mask and hood he dropped near the door when he arrived the day before.

He swiped the mask and hood from the floor and put them on.

Damian issued few clean-up orders, for there was no way to maintain the discretion his Guardians needed to mask their shadow operations protecting humanity.

A hand held mask covered her face.

His mask of veneration slowly turned into a licentious grin.

He pulled the mask down, and locked eyes with her.

Like Alex, he tried to mask his emotions, but he wasn't near as good at it.

No one took pity on a young man in a mask the way they did a cute little boy with dirty hands and huge, innocent eyes.

He didn't remove his mask and hood, even within the confines of his home.

You could walk around without your mask and feed whenever you were hungry.

Peeling off the mask, he waited for the world to crash down around him and people to lynch him.

He grew up among enemies, and became artful, suspicious and self-controlled, concealing his feeling behind the mask of an immobile, almost repulsive, coldness.

While the mask of friendship was kept up Elphinstone carried out the only suitable policy, that of vigilant quiescence, with admirable tact and patience; when in 1817 the mask was thrown aside and the peshwa ventured to declare war, the English resident proved for the second time the truth of Wellesley's assertion that he was born a soldier.

The use of a nasopharyngeal airway or the laryngeal mask airway may be helpful in certain cases.

The mask lens has a special anti fogging coating.

Mask preparation In most cases, suitably accurate astrometry of the target field will not be available.

You can also specify a bitmap and mask file of your own.

Two dancing eyes blink through a black, velvet mask beneath the brim of a fine top hat.

A dancing man wearing only a body stocking, a strategically-placed bag and a bearded mask, was especially popular with the onlookers.

But their oral fluency may mask difficulties with formal, academic English.

And every time I went to Point Pleasant, I carried a gas mask with me.

Finally, marvel at museum facsimiles of some of Tutankhamun's greatest golden treasures, including the funerary mask.

The basic individual protection against a biological agent attack is the wearing of the protective mask with hood attached.

Generally there is no point providing a solvent mask, since the solvent density generally does not provide a match to atomic features.

The man pulled up his mask enough for Howie to see a mustache and glasses but little else.

He whirled and stalked toward her, his face a mask of fury.

Hannah exclaimed, her face a mask of terror.

The micro would allow her to map a route west, and she could put on his tactical clothing and mask and leave the tent.

He hoped the darkened car would mask his face.

This mask, which furnished abundant opportunities for the decorators, musicians and dancers, in showing forth how the seasons and their delights are successively exhausted by a "wanton darling," Raybright the grandchild of the Sun, is said to have been very popular.

Amulets and ornaments in the form of the figure or mask of Bes are common after the New Kingdom; he is often associated with children and with childbirth and is figured in the "birth-houses" devoted to the cult of the child-god.

The male also has a distinctive face mask which is absent in the female.

The systems function in open mode, i.e. attached to a full face mask, or covered mode, i.e. inside a protective suit.