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Masking   /mˈæskɪŋ/   Listen
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.
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



... within him. A glance at his maddened features was sufficient for the musicians, and they did not delay. By the time they had resumed their duties, however, the curtains of composure had closed upon the Kid, masking his emotion again; but from her brief glimpse Cherry Malotte knew that this man was not of ice, as some supposed. He turned to her and said, "Do you ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach

... up to the moment of her first disgrace was solely employed by her in establishing her power by masking it. She still remained without a very precise mission; the indirect encouragement of Torcy and Madame de Maintenon, it is true, soon came to sustain her, and her entire study centered in meriting at their hands, and especially at those ...
— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

... heightens life. Now while it remains true that tactile values can, as Giotto and Masaccio have forever established, be admirably rendered on the draped figure, yet drapery is a hindrance, and, at the best, only a way out of a difficulty, for we feel it masking the really significant, which is the form underneath. A mere painter, one who is satisfied to reproduce what everybody sees, and to paint for the fun of painting, will scarcely comprehend this feeling. His ...
— The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance - With An Index To Their Works • Bernhard Berenson

... have daubed him with his own puddle: and now we are come from aboard his dancing, masking, rebounding, breathing fleet; and, as if we had landed at Gotham, we meet nothing but ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson

... coming straight for the rifle pit; no doubt they had marked the bushes masking it. Ambrose saw that they were young men, slim-waisted and graceful. The one on the right end had lost his hat through some accident. He had fair hair ...
— The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner


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