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Masking

noun

1.

The act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it. Synonyms: cover, covering, screening.

2.

The blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation.

3.

Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen. Synonym: masking piece.

Mask

verb

(past & past part. masked; pres. part. masking)

1.

Hide under a false appearance. Synonyms: cloak, dissemble.

2.

Put a mask on or cover with a mask. Antonym: unmask.

3.

Make unrecognizable. Synonym: disguise. "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"

4.

Cover with a sauce.

5.

Shield from light. Synonym: block out.

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"Masking" Quotes from Famous Books

... he, masking under a severe manner whatever he felt. 'The meeting is awkward, and ought not to have occurred, especially if as I suppose, you are shortly to be married to James Hayward. But it cannot be helped now. You had no idea ...

— The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid • Thomas Hardy

... fiction insists ever on figuring to me as the stage or theatre for the second half, and I have in general given so much space to making the theatre propitious that my halves have too often proved strangely unequal. Thereby has arisen with grim regularity the question of artfully, of consummately masking the fault and conferring on the false quantity the brave appearance of ...

— The Tragic Muse • Henry James

... of achievement, from what is simply bad. In literature, as in opinion, it was only when moral faults were mingled with intellectual defects that he became censorious. He detested literary humbug—a pretence of knowledge without the reality, a show of philosophy masking poverty of thought; the vanity of quaintness, the "ring of false metal," the glorification ...

— Matthew Arnold • G. W. E. Russell

... miles the river-bank shines with sunlit canvas—tents, tents everywhere, as far as eye can see, a mushroom growth masking the older cabins. The water-front swarms with craft, scows and canoes, birch, canvas, peterboro; the great bateaux of the northern lumberman, neat little skiffs, clumsy rafts; heavy "double-enders," whip-sawed ...

— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

... to be skeptical concerning any act masking as purely philanthropic. But the huge man wisely ...

— Winner Take All • Larry Evans

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