Meaning

18 senses
  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

    Maske

    ма́скаmáska, личи́наličína

    ма́скаmáska

    a covering to disguise or conceal the face

  2. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.

    Maske

    ма́скаmáska, личи́наličína

  3. (poetic)Appearance, likeness.

  4. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.

    ма́скаmáska

  5. A person wearing a mask.

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

  7. In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.

  8. A screen for a battery.

  9. The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.

  10. A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.

  11. A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.

  12. A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.

Examples

472 sentences
  1. Why are you wearing a mask?

    Чому ти у масці? — deniko

    ruПочему ты в маске? — marafon

  2. I put on a gas mask.

    Я одягнув протигаз. — deniko

    ruЯ надел противогаз. — astru

  3. You need to put on your gas mask.

    Тобі потрібно одягнути протигаз. — deniko

  4. Tom wore a mask.

    Том був у масці. — deniko

    deTom trug eine Maske. — wolfgangth

  5. I wore a mask.

    Я був у масці. — deniko

    ruЯ был в маске. — marafon

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
cover for the face:
Русский
By meaning 1
cover for the face:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
cover for the face:

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 maske, from Old English max, masċ (“net”), from Proto-West Germanic *maskā (“mesh, netting, mask”). Doublet of mesh and mask above.

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

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