mask

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /mɑːsk/    美 /mæsk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Mesh.
  2. Mash. UK,dialectal
  3. 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
  4. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
    — Grouchy and wary and tender, he’s a sozzled hedonist seemingly out for himself—though his party-animal facade is just a mask for his bottomless generosity.
  5. The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag. Scotland,UK,dialectal
  6. Appearance, likeness. poetic
    — Come then, pure hands, and bear the head ⁠That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep, ⁠And come, whatever loves to weep, And hear the ritual of the dead.
  7. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
    — This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask.
  8. A person wearing a mask.
    — the mask that has the arm of the Indian queen
  9. A dramatic performance in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters. obsolete
  10. A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
  11. In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
  12. A screen for a battery.
  13. The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
  14. A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
  15. A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
  16. A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
  17. The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
动词 v.
  1. To mash. UK,dialectal,transitive
  2. To bewilder; confuse. UK,dialectal,transitive
  3. To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor. transitive
    — They must all be masked and vizarded
  4. To disguise as something else. transitive
  5. (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort. UK,dialectal,transitive
  6. To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide. transitive
    — Masking the business from the common eye
  7. To be infused or steeped. Cumbria,Durham,Geordie,Northumbria,Scotland
  8. To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of. transitive
  9. To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew. Cumbria,Durham,Geordie,Northumbria,Scotland
  10. To cover or keep in check. transitive
    — to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out
  11. To prepare (to storm). Northern-England,Scotland,rare
    — I saw the storm was masking fast, That soon wad fa' on me;[…]
  12. To take part as a masker in a masquerade. intransitive
    — Come Pentecost as quickly as it will, Some five and twenty years, and then we mask’d.
  13. To put on a mask; to wear a mask. intransitive
    — Dr. Shelita Dattani, director of professional affairs at the Canadian Pharmacists Association, says […]. “The efforts that we’re taking to reduce the spread of COVID are working … people are masking and distancing and staying away from each other and using hand hygiene, so I think all of these efforts combined are contributing to lower rates.”
  14. To disguise oneself, to be disguised in any way. intransitive,obsolete
    — Ioue sometime maſked in a ſhepheards weede, And by thoſe ſteps that he hath ſcal’d the heauens, May we become immortall like the Gods.
  15. To conceal or disguise one's neurodivergence, especially autism; to learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical. intransitive
    — Masking is exhausting and some autistics require copious amounts of time afterwards to recover from hiding who they are and pretending to be someone they aren't. Even when autistics mask they don't always pass fully as an NT person.
  16. To cover or shield something, or a portion of something, so as to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting. transitive
  17. To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask. transitive
    — That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has been masked to zero. This is because ANDing anything with a zero produces a zero, while ANDing any bit with a 1 leaves the bit unchanged[…]
  18. To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit. transitive
    — Some hardware interrupts can be masked, or disabled; that is, the CPU is told to ignore them.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
vizard
衍生词
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相关词
mascara masking tape masquerade

词源

词源 1
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 and mask (“mesh”) (below at Etymology 2) are inherited. Doublet of masque and mesh.
Replaced Old English grīma (“mask”), whence grime, and displaced non-native Middle English viser (“visor, mask”) borrowed from Old French viser, visier.
词源 2
From Middle English maske, from Old English max, masċ (“net”), from Proto-West Germanic *maskā (“mesh, netting, mask”). Doublet of mesh and mask above.
词源 3
From Middle English *mask, masch, from Old English māx, māsc (“mash”). Doublet of mash.
词源 4
From Middle English masken, short for *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder; be confused, wander”). More at masker.
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