masknoun詞源 1/mɑːsk/

• 1

  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
  • Just a few days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the CDC—issued new mask guidelines. Under these new guidelines, most Americans in most of the country can now be mask free. And based on the projections, more of the country will reach that point across the next couple of weeks.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  Appearance, likeness.

  • 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.
• 4

  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.
• 5

  A person wearing a mask.

  • the mask that has the arm of the Indian queen
  • Jones, now taking the mask by the hand, fell to entreating her in the most earnest manner, to acquaint him where he might find Sophia; and when he could obtain no direct answer, he began to upbraid her gently […]
• 6

  obsoleteA dramatic performance in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.

• 7

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

• 8

  fortificationfortificationsgovernmentIn a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.

maskverb詞源 1/mɑːsk/

• 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.

  • They must all be masked and vizarded
• 2

  To disguise as something else.

• 3

  To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.

  • Masking the business from the common eye
  • The opponent must not be able to recognize when we inhale and when we exhale. We achieve this by breathing with the diaphragm and we do not raise the shoulders while breathing. In particular we must mask when we are out of breath.
• 4

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

• 5

  governmentmilitarypoliticsTo cover or keep in check.

  • to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out
• 6

  To take part as a masker in a masquerade.

  • Come Pentecost as quickly as it will, Some five and twenty years, and then we mask’d.
  • noble Gentilmen / who daunced & masked wt thes fayer ladyes & gentillwomen
• 7

  To put on a mask; to wear a mask.

  • 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.”
• 8

  obsoleteTo disguise oneself, to be disguised in any way.

  • 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.

masknoun詞源 2/mɑːsk/

• 1

  Mesh.

• 2

  dialectalThe mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.

masknoun詞源 3/mɑːsk/

• 1

  dialectalMash.

maskverb詞源 3/mɑːsk/

• 1

  dialectalTo mash.

• 2

  dialectal(brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.

• 3

  dialectalTo be infused or steeped.

• 4

  dialectalTo prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.

• 5

  rareTo prepare (to storm).

  • I saw the storm was masking fast, That soon wad fa' on me;[…]
  • ... mirky cluds in the south-wast / Are masking up a blashy blast, ...

maskverb詞源 4/mɑːsk/

• 1

  dialectalTo bewilder; confuse.