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Dust mask         
MASK TO PROTECT FROM DUST
Filtering facepiece particles
A dust mask is a flexible paper pad held over the nose and mouth by elastic or rubber straps for personal comfort against non-toxic nuisance dusts. They are not intended to provide protection from toxic airborne hazards.
masked         
  • An American football player wearing a mask that protects his face from another player's hand
  • A Korean mask worn by a [[Talchum]] performer
  • A protective surgical mask
  • Golden masks excavated from the [[Kalmakareh Cave]] in [[Lorestan]], Iran, first half of first Millennium BC, [[National Museum of Iran]]
  • Asaro mudman]] holding mask, Papua New Guinea
  • recognition]]
  • A [[Peking opera]] mask
  •  access-date = February 26, 2016}}</ref>
  • Batak]] mask dance at a funeral feast in the [[Dutch East Indies]], 1930s
  • Kwakwaka'wakw ritual mask (painted wood, fiber, and cord)
  • Fang mask]] used for the ''ngil'' ceremony, an inquisitorial search for sorcerers. Wood, [[Gabon]], 19th century
  • Iranian surgical technologist with surgical mask
  • Masks of [[Cameroon]]
  • Anonymous]]'' wear Guy Fawkes masks while protesting against the [[Church of Scientology]], 2008, London
  • Vietnamese young people wear surgic masks after the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]
  • Makeup simulates a half-sided mask on this man for [[Halloween]]
  • The so-called '[[Mask of Agamemnon]]', a 16th-century BC mask discovered by [[Heinrich Schliemann]] in 1876 at [[Mycenae]], Greece, [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens]]
  • Mask of Shame]]"
  • Roman mosaic]], second century AD
  • [[Funeral mask]] of [[K'inich Janaab' Pakal]] at the [[National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)]]
  • reusable filter mask]] worn by [[NYPD]] officer
  • Greek mask
  • Three photographs of the same [[noh]] mask of a woman show how her expression appears to change with a tilting of the head of the performer - to demonstrate the effect, the mask was affixed to a wall with constant lighting and only the camera was moved
  • Masked dancers at a [[tshechu]] festival, [[Bhutan]], 2013
  • A Venetian carnival mask
  • Aztec mask of [[Xiuhtecuhtli]], c. 1500, of [[Mixtec]]-Aztec provenance
  • Mask of [[Tengu]]
  • Shu]]
ANY FULL OR PARTIAL FACE COVERING, WHETHER CEREMONIAL, PROTECTIVE, DECORATIVE, OR USED AS DISGUISE
Masks; Masked; Masks (protective); Protective masks; Protective mask; Masks in theatre; Masks and theatre; Masks in ritual; Masks in ritual and theatre; Masks in theater and ritual; Ritual mask; SARS mask; SARS Masks; Swine flu mask; Theatre mask; Tribal mask; Flu mask; Face cover; Melanesian masks; Native American masks; SARS Mask; Face covering; Masked theatre
If someone is masked, they are wearing a mask.
Masked youths threw stones and fire-bombs.
ADJ
cosmic dust         
  • newspaper=ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week}}</ref>
  • Cosmic dust of the [[Andromeda Galaxy]] as revealed in infrared light by the [[Spitzer Space Telescope]].
  • work=ESO Press Release}}</ref>
  • A dusty trail from the early Solar System to carbonaceous dust today.
  • Cosmic dust of the [[Horsehead Nebula]] as revealed by the [[Hubble Space Telescope]].
  • Major elements of 200 stratospheric interplanetary dust particles.
  • Smooth chondrite interplanetary dust particle.
  • access-date=4 April 2016}}</ref>
DUST FLOATING IN SPACE
Interstellar dust; Space dust; Interstellar Dust; Dark Nebulae; Astrophysical dust; Galactic dust; Dust filament; Cosmic Dust; Interstellar grains; Interplanetary grains; Extraterrestrial dust; Dust from space
¦ noun small particles of matter distributed throughout space.
mask         
  • An American football player wearing a mask that protects his face from another player's hand
  • A Korean mask worn by a [[Talchum]] performer
  • A protective surgical mask
  • Golden masks excavated from the [[Kalmakareh Cave]] in [[Lorestan]], Iran, first half of first Millennium BC, [[National Museum of Iran]]
  • Asaro mudman]] holding mask, Papua New Guinea
  • recognition]]
  • A [[Peking opera]] mask
  •  access-date = February 26, 2016}}</ref>
  • Batak]] mask dance at a funeral feast in the [[Dutch East Indies]], 1930s
  • Kwakwaka'wakw ritual mask (painted wood, fiber, and cord)
  • Fang mask]] used for the ''ngil'' ceremony, an inquisitorial search for sorcerers. Wood, [[Gabon]], 19th century
  • Iranian surgical technologist with surgical mask
  • Masks of [[Cameroon]]
  • Anonymous]]'' wear Guy Fawkes masks while protesting against the [[Church of Scientology]], 2008, London
  • Vietnamese young people wear surgic masks after the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]
  • Makeup simulates a half-sided mask on this man for [[Halloween]]
  • The so-called '[[Mask of Agamemnon]]', a 16th-century BC mask discovered by [[Heinrich Schliemann]] in 1876 at [[Mycenae]], Greece, [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens]]
  • Mask of Shame]]"
  • Roman mosaic]], second century AD
  • [[Funeral mask]] of [[K'inich Janaab' Pakal]] at the [[National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)]]
  • reusable filter mask]] worn by [[NYPD]] officer
  • Greek mask
  • Three photographs of the same [[noh]] mask of a woman show how her expression appears to change with a tilting of the head of the performer - to demonstrate the effect, the mask was affixed to a wall with constant lighting and only the camera was moved
  • Masked dancers at a [[tshechu]] festival, [[Bhutan]], 2013
  • A Venetian carnival mask
  • Aztec mask of [[Xiuhtecuhtli]], c. 1500, of [[Mixtec]]-Aztec provenance
  • Mask of [[Tengu]]
  • Shu]]
ANY FULL OR PARTIAL FACE COVERING, WHETHER CEREMONIAL, PROTECTIVE, DECORATIVE, OR USED AS DISGUISE
Masks; Masked; Masks (protective); Protective masks; Protective mask; Masks in theatre; Masks and theatre; Masks in ritual; Masks in ritual and theatre; Masks in theater and ritual; Ritual mask; SARS mask; SARS Masks; Swine flu mask; Theatre mask; Tribal mask; Flu mask; Face cover; Melanesian masks; Native American masks; SARS Mask; Face covering; Masked theatre
I. n.
1.
Cover (for the face), visor.
2.
Cloak, screen, blind, disguise, veil.
3.
Subterfuge, evasion, trick, shift, pretence, pretext, plea, ruse.
4.
Masquerade.
5.
Revel, piece of mummery, bustle.
II. v. a.
1.
Put a mask on.
2.
Disguise, conceal, hide, cloak, veil, screen, shroud, cover.
Masked         
  • An American football player wearing a mask that protects his face from another player's hand
  • A Korean mask worn by a [[Talchum]] performer
  • A protective surgical mask
  • Golden masks excavated from the [[Kalmakareh Cave]] in [[Lorestan]], Iran, first half of first Millennium BC, [[National Museum of Iran]]
  • Asaro mudman]] holding mask, Papua New Guinea
  • recognition]]
  • A [[Peking opera]] mask
  •  access-date = February 26, 2016}}</ref>
  • Batak]] mask dance at a funeral feast in the [[Dutch East Indies]], 1930s
  • Kwakwaka'wakw ritual mask (painted wood, fiber, and cord)
  • Fang mask]] used for the ''ngil'' ceremony, an inquisitorial search for sorcerers. Wood, [[Gabon]], 19th century
  • Iranian surgical technologist with surgical mask
  • Masks of [[Cameroon]]
  • Anonymous]]'' wear Guy Fawkes masks while protesting against the [[Church of Scientology]], 2008, London
  • Vietnamese young people wear surgic masks after the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]
  • Makeup simulates a half-sided mask on this man for [[Halloween]]
  • The so-called '[[Mask of Agamemnon]]', a 16th-century BC mask discovered by [[Heinrich Schliemann]] in 1876 at [[Mycenae]], Greece, [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens]]
  • Mask of Shame]]"
  • Roman mosaic]], second century AD
  • [[Funeral mask]] of [[K'inich Janaab' Pakal]] at the [[National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)]]
  • reusable filter mask]] worn by [[NYPD]] officer
  • Greek mask
  • Three photographs of the same [[noh]] mask of a woman show how her expression appears to change with a tilting of the head of the performer - to demonstrate the effect, the mask was affixed to a wall with constant lighting and only the camera was moved
  • Masked dancers at a [[tshechu]] festival, [[Bhutan]], 2013
  • A Venetian carnival mask
  • Aztec mask of [[Xiuhtecuhtli]], c. 1500, of [[Mixtec]]-Aztec provenance
  • Mask of [[Tengu]]
  • Shu]]
ANY FULL OR PARTIAL FACE COVERING, WHETHER CEREMONIAL, PROTECTIVE, DECORATIVE, OR USED AS DISGUISE
Masks; Masked; Masks (protective); Protective masks; Protective mask; Masks in theatre; Masks and theatre; Masks in ritual; Masks in ritual and theatre; Masks in theater and ritual; Ritual mask; SARS mask; SARS Masks; Swine flu mask; Theatre mask; Tribal mask; Flu mask; Face cover; Melanesian masks; Native American masks; SARS Mask; Face covering; Masked theatre
·adj ·same·as Personate.
II. Masked ·Impf & ·p.p. of Mask.
III. Masked ·adj Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; cincealed; hidden.
IV. Masked ·adj Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage;
- said of birds.
mask         
  • An American football player wearing a mask that protects his face from another player's hand
  • A Korean mask worn by a [[Talchum]] performer
  • A protective surgical mask
  • Golden masks excavated from the [[Kalmakareh Cave]] in [[Lorestan]], Iran, first half of first Millennium BC, [[National Museum of Iran]]
  • Asaro mudman]] holding mask, Papua New Guinea
  • recognition]]
  • A [[Peking opera]] mask
  •  access-date = February 26, 2016}}</ref>
  • Batak]] mask dance at a funeral feast in the [[Dutch East Indies]], 1930s
  • Kwakwaka'wakw ritual mask (painted wood, fiber, and cord)
  • Fang mask]] used for the ''ngil'' ceremony, an inquisitorial search for sorcerers. Wood, [[Gabon]], 19th century
  • Iranian surgical technologist with surgical mask
  • Masks of [[Cameroon]]
  • Anonymous]]'' wear Guy Fawkes masks while protesting against the [[Church of Scientology]], 2008, London
  • Vietnamese young people wear surgic masks after the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]
  • Makeup simulates a half-sided mask on this man for [[Halloween]]
  • The so-called '[[Mask of Agamemnon]]', a 16th-century BC mask discovered by [[Heinrich Schliemann]] in 1876 at [[Mycenae]], Greece, [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens]]
  • Mask of Shame]]"
  • Roman mosaic]], second century AD
  • [[Funeral mask]] of [[K'inich Janaab' Pakal]] at the [[National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)]]
  • reusable filter mask]] worn by [[NYPD]] officer
  • Greek mask
  • Three photographs of the same [[noh]] mask of a woman show how her expression appears to change with a tilting of the head of the performer - to demonstrate the effect, the mask was affixed to a wall with constant lighting and only the camera was moved
  • Masked dancers at a [[tshechu]] festival, [[Bhutan]], 2013
  • A Venetian carnival mask
  • Aztec mask of [[Xiuhtecuhtli]], c. 1500, of [[Mixtec]]-Aztec provenance
  • Mask of [[Tengu]]
  • Shu]]
ANY FULL OR PARTIAL FACE COVERING, WHETHER CEREMONIAL, PROTECTIVE, DECORATIVE, OR USED AS DISGUISE
Masks; Masked; Masks (protective); Protective masks; Protective mask; Masks in theatre; Masks and theatre; Masks in ritual; Masks in ritual and theatre; Masks in theater and ritual; Ritual mask; SARS mask; SARS Masks; Swine flu mask; Theatre mask; Tribal mask; Flu mask; Face cover; Melanesian masks; Native American masks; SARS Mask; Face covering; Masked theatre
n. a death; gas; oxygen; ski; stocking; surgical mask
Mask         
  • An American football player wearing a mask that protects his face from another player's hand
  • A Korean mask worn by a [[Talchum]] performer
  • A protective surgical mask
  • Golden masks excavated from the [[Kalmakareh Cave]] in [[Lorestan]], Iran, first half of first Millennium BC, [[National Museum of Iran]]
  • Asaro mudman]] holding mask, Papua New Guinea
  • recognition]]
  • A [[Peking opera]] mask
  •  access-date = February 26, 2016}}</ref>
  • Batak]] mask dance at a funeral feast in the [[Dutch East Indies]], 1930s
  • Kwakwaka'wakw ritual mask (painted wood, fiber, and cord)
  • Fang mask]] used for the ''ngil'' ceremony, an inquisitorial search for sorcerers. Wood, [[Gabon]], 19th century
  • Iranian surgical technologist with surgical mask
  • Masks of [[Cameroon]]
  • Anonymous]]'' wear Guy Fawkes masks while protesting against the [[Church of Scientology]], 2008, London
  • Vietnamese young people wear surgic masks after the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]
  • Makeup simulates a half-sided mask on this man for [[Halloween]]
  • The so-called '[[Mask of Agamemnon]]', a 16th-century BC mask discovered by [[Heinrich Schliemann]] in 1876 at [[Mycenae]], Greece, [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens]]
  • Mask of Shame]]"
  • Roman mosaic]], second century AD
  • [[Funeral mask]] of [[K'inich Janaab' Pakal]] at the [[National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)]]
  • reusable filter mask]] worn by [[NYPD]] officer
  • Greek mask
  • Three photographs of the same [[noh]] mask of a woman show how her expression appears to change with a tilting of the head of the performer - to demonstrate the effect, the mask was affixed to a wall with constant lighting and only the camera was moved
  • Masked dancers at a [[tshechu]] festival, [[Bhutan]], 2013
  • A Venetian carnival mask
  • Aztec mask of [[Xiuhtecuhtli]], c. 1500, of [[Mixtec]]-Aztec provenance
  • Mask of [[Tengu]]
  • Shu]]
ANY FULL OR PARTIAL FACE COVERING, WHETHER CEREMONIAL, PROTECTIVE, DECORATIVE, OR USED AS DISGUISE
Masks; Masked; Masks (protective); Protective masks; Protective mask; Masks in theatre; Masks and theatre; Masks in ritual; Masks in ritual and theatre; Masks in theater and ritual; Ritual mask; SARS mask; SARS Masks; Swine flu mask; Theatre mask; Tribal mask; Flu mask; Face cover; Melanesian masks; Native American masks; SARS Mask; Face covering; Masked theatre
·noun A screen for a battery.
II. Mask ·add. ·noun The head or face of a fox.
III. Mask ·vi To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
IV. Mask ·vi To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
V. Mask ·noun That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
VI. Mask ·add. ·noun A person wearing a mask; a masker.
VII. Mask ·noun In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
VIII. Mask ·vt To Conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
IX. Mask ·noun The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
X. Mask ·vt To Disguise; to Cover; to Hide.
XI. Mask ·vt To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
XII. Mask ·noun A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
XIII. Mask ·noun A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.
XIV. Mask ·noun A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.
XV. Mask ·vt To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.
XVI. Mask ·noun A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like;
- called also mascaron.
mask         
  • An American football player wearing a mask that protects his face from another player's hand
  • A Korean mask worn by a [[Talchum]] performer
  • A protective surgical mask
  • Golden masks excavated from the [[Kalmakareh Cave]] in [[Lorestan]], Iran, first half of first Millennium BC, [[National Museum of Iran]]
  • Asaro mudman]] holding mask, Papua New Guinea
  • recognition]]
  • A [[Peking opera]] mask
  •  access-date = February 26, 2016}}</ref>
  • Batak]] mask dance at a funeral feast in the [[Dutch East Indies]], 1930s
  • Kwakwaka'wakw ritual mask (painted wood, fiber, and cord)
  • Fang mask]] used for the ''ngil'' ceremony, an inquisitorial search for sorcerers. Wood, [[Gabon]], 19th century
  • Iranian surgical technologist with surgical mask
  • Masks of [[Cameroon]]
  • Anonymous]]'' wear Guy Fawkes masks while protesting against the [[Church of Scientology]], 2008, London
  • Vietnamese young people wear surgic masks after the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]
  • Makeup simulates a half-sided mask on this man for [[Halloween]]
  • The so-called '[[Mask of Agamemnon]]', a 16th-century BC mask discovered by [[Heinrich Schliemann]] in 1876 at [[Mycenae]], Greece, [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens]]
  • Mask of Shame]]"
  • Roman mosaic]], second century AD
  • [[Funeral mask]] of [[K'inich Janaab' Pakal]] at the [[National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)]]
  • reusable filter mask]] worn by [[NYPD]] officer
  • Greek mask
  • Three photographs of the same [[noh]] mask of a woman show how her expression appears to change with a tilting of the head of the performer - to demonstrate the effect, the mask was affixed to a wall with constant lighting and only the camera was moved
  • Masked dancers at a [[tshechu]] festival, [[Bhutan]], 2013
  • A Venetian carnival mask
  • Aztec mask of [[Xiuhtecuhtli]], c. 1500, of [[Mixtec]]-Aztec provenance
  • Mask of [[Tengu]]
  • Shu]]
ANY FULL OR PARTIAL FACE COVERING, WHETHER CEREMONIAL, PROTECTIVE, DECORATIVE, OR USED AS DISGUISE
Masks; Masked; Masks (protective); Protective masks; Protective mask; Masks in theatre; Masks and theatre; Masks in ritual; Masks in ritual and theatre; Masks in theater and ritual; Ritual mask; SARS mask; SARS Masks; Swine flu mask; Theatre mask; Tribal mask; Flu mask; Face cover; Melanesian masks; Native American masks; SARS Mask; Face covering; Masked theatre
¦ noun
1. a covering for all or part of the face, worn as a disguise, for protection or hygiene, or for theatrical effect.
a respirator used to filter inhaled air or to supply gas for inhalation.
a face pack.
2. a likeness of a person's face moulded or sculpted in clay or wax.
the face or head of an animal, especially of a fox, as a hunting trophy.
3. a disguise or pretence: she let her mask of respectability slip.
4. Photography a piece of material used to cover part of an image that is not required when exposing a print.
5. Electronics a patterned metal film used in the manufacture of microcircuits to allow selective modification of the underlying material.
¦ verb
1. cover with a mask.
2. conceal from view; disguise: brandy did not mask the bitter taste.
3. cover so as to protect during a particular process, especially painting.
Derivatives
masked adjective
masker noun
Origin
C16: from Fr. masque, from Ital. maschera, mascara, prob. from med. L. masca 'witch, spectre', but influenced by Arab. mas?ara 'buffoon'.
Surgical mask         
  • Single-use medical masks
  • A medical professional wearing a surgical mask during an operation
  • A face mask with Disney characters, designed for children<ref>[https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/806-fda-clears-first-single-use-face-mask-for-children FDA clears first single-use face mask for children]; URL accessed 18 October 2020.</ref>
  • A supermarket shopper wearing a face mask during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].
  • Comparison of breathing out without (top) and with (bottom) a mask. Note that without a mask jets of air are exhaled that can carry viruses and bacteria rapidly towards a person in front of the person breathing out. But with a mask these jets are blocked, meaning the air instead mostly rises due to convection. Note that although jets are blocked, the same amount of air moves in both cases, allowing the wearer to breathe easily.
  • 2009 swine flu pandemic]].
ORO-NASAL COVER WORN BY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS TO REDUCE SPREAD OF AIRBORNE PATHOGENS
Surgical masks; Surgical facemasks; 😷; Surgical facemask; Medical procedure mask; Procedure mask; Laser surgical mask; Dental mask; Medical mask; Surgical face mask; Duckbill mask; COVID mask
A surgical mask, also known by other names such as a medical face mask or procedure mask, is a personal protective equipment used by healthcare professionals that serves as a mechanical barrier that interferes with direct airflow in and out of respiratory orifices (i.e.
mask         
  • An American football player wearing a mask that protects his face from another player's hand
  • A Korean mask worn by a [[Talchum]] performer
  • A protective surgical mask
  • Golden masks excavated from the [[Kalmakareh Cave]] in [[Lorestan]], Iran, first half of first Millennium BC, [[National Museum of Iran]]
  • Asaro mudman]] holding mask, Papua New Guinea
  • recognition]]
  • A [[Peking opera]] mask
  •  access-date = February 26, 2016}}</ref>
  • Batak]] mask dance at a funeral feast in the [[Dutch East Indies]], 1930s
  • Kwakwaka'wakw ritual mask (painted wood, fiber, and cord)
  • Fang mask]] used for the ''ngil'' ceremony, an inquisitorial search for sorcerers. Wood, [[Gabon]], 19th century
  • Iranian surgical technologist with surgical mask
  • Masks of [[Cameroon]]
  • Anonymous]]'' wear Guy Fawkes masks while protesting against the [[Church of Scientology]], 2008, London
  • Vietnamese young people wear surgic masks after the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]
  • Makeup simulates a half-sided mask on this man for [[Halloween]]
  • The so-called '[[Mask of Agamemnon]]', a 16th-century BC mask discovered by [[Heinrich Schliemann]] in 1876 at [[Mycenae]], Greece, [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens]]
  • Mask of Shame]]"
  • Roman mosaic]], second century AD
  • [[Funeral mask]] of [[K'inich Janaab' Pakal]] at the [[National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)]]
  • reusable filter mask]] worn by [[NYPD]] officer
  • Greek mask
  • Three photographs of the same [[noh]] mask of a woman show how her expression appears to change with a tilting of the head of the performer - to demonstrate the effect, the mask was affixed to a wall with constant lighting and only the camera was moved
  • Masked dancers at a [[tshechu]] festival, [[Bhutan]], 2013
  • A Venetian carnival mask
  • Aztec mask of [[Xiuhtecuhtli]], c. 1500, of [[Mixtec]]-Aztec provenance
  • Mask of [[Tengu]]
  • Shu]]
ANY FULL OR PARTIAL FACE COVERING, WHETHER CEREMONIAL, PROTECTIVE, DECORATIVE, OR USED AS DISGUISE
Masks; Masked; Masks (protective); Protective masks; Protective mask; Masks in theatre; Masks and theatre; Masks in ritual; Masks in ritual and theatre; Masks in theater and ritual; Ritual mask; SARS mask; SARS Masks; Swine flu mask; Theatre mask; Tribal mask; Flu mask; Face cover; Melanesian masks; Native American masks; SARS Mask; Face covering; Masked theatre
(masks, masking, masked)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A mask is a piece of cloth or other material, which you wear over your face so that people cannot see who you are, or so that you look like someone or something else.
The gunman, whose mask had slipped, fled.
...actors wearing masks.
N-COUNT
2.
A mask is a piece of cloth or other material that you wear over all or part of your face to protect you from germs or harmful substances.
You must wear goggles and a mask that will protect you against the fumes...
N-COUNT: oft supp N
3.
If you describe someone's behaviour as a mask, you mean that they do not show their real feelings or character.
His mask of detachment cracked, and she saw for an instant an angry and violent man.
N-COUNT: oft N of n
4.
A mask is a thick cream or paste made of various substances, which you spread over your face and leave for some time in order to improve your skin.
This mask leaves your complexion feeling soft and supple.
N-COUNT
5.
If you mask your feelings, you deliberately do not show them in your behaviour, so that people cannot know what you really feel.
Dena lit a cigarette, trying to mask her agitation.
= conceal, hide
VERB: V n
6.
If one thing masks another, it prevents people from noticing or recognizing the other thing.
Too much salt masks the true flavour of the food...
VERB: V n
7.