Meaning

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

    maskieren

    put a mask on or cover with a mask

  2. (transitive)To disguise as something else.

    maskieren

  3. (transitive)To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.

    cover with a sauce

  4. (transitive)To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.

  5. (transitive)To 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. (intransitive)To take part as a masker in a masquerade.

  7. (intransitive)To put on a mask; to wear a mask.

    sich maskieren

  8. (intransitive)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.

  9. (transitive)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.

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

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

  12. (UK, dialectal, transitive)To mash.

Examples

472 sentences
  1. Why are you wearing a mask?

    Чому ти у масці?

    ruПочему ты в маске?

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  2. I put on a gas mask.

    Я одягнув протигаз.

    ruЯ надел противогаз.

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  3. You need to put on your gas mask.

    Тобі потрібно одягнути протигаз.

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  4. Tom wore a mask.

    Том був у масці.

    deTom trug eine Maske.

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  5. I wore a mask.

    Я був у масці.

    ruЯ был в маске.

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to cover, as the face:
to wear a mask:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italia

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 mascara, masque, and mesh.

From Middle English *mask, masch, from Old English māx, māsc (“mash”). Doublet of mash.

From Middle English masken, short for *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder; be confused, wander”). More at masker.

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Forms

masks, masking, masked, masked
Base formmask · to mask
3rd person singularmasks
Present participlemasking
Past simplemasked
Past participlemasked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymask
he, she, itmasks

Past simpleLesson

all personsmasked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave masked
he, she, ithas masked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mask

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

10 related words

Collocations

5 patterns
  • wearing a mask
  • men wearing masks
  • gas mask
  • ski masks
  • wearing masks

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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