mask1 nounmask2 verb
maskmask1 /mɑːsk $ mæsk/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINmask1
Origin:
1500-1600 French masque, from Old Italian mascheraEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- In Japanese Kabuki theater, the actors wear special masks.
- At the Spinning Wheel Puppets exhibit, children can create masks and puppets.
- But can the child transcend the blackness and wear the white mask with pride?
- His face was a mask, friendly, but in an impersonal way.
- I put my hand over my nose and mouth like a surgical mask just in case I inhaled any of Senga.
- Keep the gondola, the mask too.
- Workers in surgical masks are running a hydraulic compressor and tractor-trailer drivers are warming up their big rigs.
- You will need to think carefully about modifiers for wearing a mask.
Longman Language Activatorto hide your feelings
to deliberately not show what you are feeling or thinking: · He hides his real feelings under that big smile.· "That's OK," she said, trying to hide her disappointment.hide something from somebody: · I tried to hide my anxiety from the rest of the family by pretending that everything was normal.
to not show in your face, voice, or movements what you really think or feel: · If she was surprised, she didn't show it.· My husband never shows emotion, so I never know if he's upset.
formal to hide your feelings or intentions especially when you have to make an effort to do this: · Kim could barely conceal her annoyance that I had arrived so late.· I yawned, not bothering to conceal my boredom.conceal something from somebody: · Hawkins was incapable of concealing how he felt from his close friends.
to avoid showing your true feelings or intentions by pretending to feel something else: · Kate gave a cheerful smile, somehow managing to disguise her embarrassment.· "That's great!" she cried, unable to disguise her excitement.· He often masked his feelings of guilt by becoming angry at the people he had wronged.
to not allow yourself to show your feelings, especially if you are angry, worried, or upset - use this especially when you think it would be better for someone to show their feelings so they can be dealt with: bottle something up: · It's not healthy to bottle all your feelings up like that.· The anger that he had bottled up inside him finally exploded.keep something bottled up: · She wanted to cry but she kept it bottled up inside.
formal to not allow yourself to feel or show strong feelings such as anger, sadness, or love, especially when you have difficulty controlling these feelings: · She had had to suppress her feelings for George throughout his long marriage to her friend.· Finally Glen could suppress his anger no longer and he lashed out at his mother.
formal to deliberately stop yourself from having or expressing particular feelings, especially because you are ashamed of them, in a way that may have harmful mental effects: · Individuals who repress their sexual desires often suffer from psychological problems.· Denying or repressing sorrow often seems the easiest way out when confronted with death.
to pretend that you are happy or confident when in fact you are very upset about something but you do not want to show this: · When she lost her job she put on a brave face and said it didn't matter.· Most of his teammates put up a brave front when they talked about his departure.put on a brave face/put up a brave front on: · The speech was given to put a brave face on the president's declining popularity.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
He was attacked and robbed by two people wearing masks.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1 He was attacked and robbed by two people wearing masks.· Inside the car was a man in a black leather mask.· So he dons black cape and mask and finds romance and adventure as El Zerro!· A woman in her mid forties was dragged into bushes by a man wearing a black stocking mask.· They wore black masks and held what were meant to look like large axes, from medieval times.· During camera rehearsals earlier in the day he was able to cut out, align and stick down his black cardboard mask.· They wore black boots, green military fatigues, had their faces covered with black ski masks and carried automatic weapons.· The attacker was described as white, wearing dark clothes and a black mask.· Some children may therefore adopt a black mask which they wear fiercely but weakly.
· But can the child transcend the blackness and wear the white mask with pride?· Janet Flanner, cross-legged on the floor, top hat decorated with one black, one white mask.· Benjamin spun round, his face a white mask in the darkness.· Her face was a white powder mask with black eye make-up and black lip gloss.· He looked extremely unhealthy; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask.· The next moment Miss Kilspindie's front door opened and a white mask surmounted by a minefield of curlers peered out.
NOUN· The body is dressed in jewelled vestments, the face covered with a silver mask fashioned from a wax death mask.· It also includes a grainy, retouched photograph of the man holding the death mask in his hands.· The whereabouts of Flaxman's death mask was not known, and nothing came of the suggestion.· There is the coroner from Philadelphia, Gold, with the death mask of the little boy.· A death mask of pieces badly assembled.
· His speciality - opening his face mask to reveal the electronic workings of his head - had the audience gasping.· He was holding, grabbing guys by the face mask, leg-whipping.· They are protected from head to foot with face masks, caps and white gowns.· It was such a cold month that his mom would not let him sit outside without his Yogi Bear face mask.· Our Oatmeal and Avocado face mask will absorb any impurities or excess oils from your skin.· He positioned his face mask then pulled up his hood.· Wear a face mask when removing this type of system.· Simply smear on a generous amount over your skin after cleansing to make a revitalising face mask.
· They took gas masks and attached grenades to their belts.· Delaney snapped on his gas mask.· Some even began wearing gas masks to block the suspicious fumes.· Heard him say that sirens were blowing and people were donning gas masks and moving into sealed rooms.· While they all wore gas masks, none were tightly clothed, and none wore gloves.· Every child had a gas mask and a suitcase, or paper parcel.· Everywhere I went, I carried the gas mask I had purchased on the black market.
· They placed an oxygen mask on my love and dared me to count up to ten.· The shock was terrific, he gasped into his oxygen mask, his hands clenching involuntarily.· He told me that the oxygen mask had pulled away from my face some, and that I was probably just blacking out.· But he saw nothing, nothing but dark sky: The oxygen mask was filled with sweat.· It felt good sitting there with the oxygen mask off and not having to worry about flak.· They coaxed everything from pygmy mice to snakes to cheetahs into running on a treadmill while wearing an oxygen mask.· He remembered his oxygen mask and placed it over his mouth after removing the smog mask.· The car with its whirring air conditioning was like an oxygen mask.
· He is of slim to medium build and was wearing a dark ski mask.· An early police report said the men had been wearing ski masks.· They were later seen wearing ski masks and driving the vehicles across the Denes area.· Pappas was shot by two men wearing ski masks.· The girl has told officers her attacker was taller than her and wore a ski mask.· The rapist had worn a ski mask, but she knew his approximate height and his coloring.· They wore black boots, green military fatigues, had their faces covered with black ski masks and carried automatic weapons.· In winter he wears up to four layers of clothing, a ski mask, gloves.
· A woman in her mid forties was dragged into bushes by a man wearing a black stocking mask.
VERB· On impulse, and against his better judgment, he pulled off his own mask.· After a few minutes, they were ordered to pull their masks back and take a whiff.· A second lay on the floor, writhing and trying to pull the mask off his face.· He pulled the mask forward slowly, relying for his protection on Forster while he was temporarily blinded.· Don't try and pull off your mask.
· George frowned as he put his mask neatly in the brown carrier bag before driving home.· They put on gloves and masks to remove strips of insulation in the loft.· When insulted, they stripped to the waist, put on hideous driftwood masks and sang nasty songs at each other.· She had them put an oxygen mask over Matthew's face immediately.
· The man fell against the altar, trying to remove the mask from his face.· Posing in a tableau, they artfully remove their masks, only to reveal more masks underneath.· He remembered his oxygen mask and placed it over his mouth after removing the smog mask.
· Williams and Bailey recently described using a reinforced laryngeal mask for adenotonsillectomy.
· As I said she wore a mask, and a rich black cloak with white lambswool trimmings.· Some even began wearing gas masks to block the suspicious fumes.· Sir, if that was my master, why was he wearing a mask over his face?· They wear custom, low-volume masks.· The demonic figures wearing ugly masks and straw and brushwood clothes are intended to scare away evil spirits.· The tribesmen assumed the names of beasts and in their rites wore animal masks.· You will need to think carefully about modifiers for wearing a mask.· They appeared with starlets at cabarets, guested on game shows and even flirted with politics, always wearing their masks.
something that covers all or part of your face, to protect or to hide it: a surgical face mask He was attacked and robbed by two people wearing masks.2something that covers your face, and has another face painted on it, which is used for ceremonies or special occasions: a Halloween mask3[usually singular] an expression or way of behaving that hides your real emotions or character SYN front: Her sarcasm is a mask for her insecurity.4a substance that you put on your face and leave there for a short time to clean the skin or make it softer SYN face pack: a facial mask → death mask, gas maskmask1 nounmask2 verb
maskmask2 verb [transitive] 1if a smell, taste, sound etc is masked by a stronger one, it cannot be noticed because of the stronger one: Liz turned on a radio to mask the noise. Air-fresheners mask bad smells instead of removing them.► see thesaurus at hide2to hide your feelings or the truth about a situation: Men often mask their true feelings with humour.3to cover or hide something so that it cannot be clearly seen: The new accommodation block has all but masked the original building.