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masking |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mask \Mask\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Masked}; p. pr & vb n. {Masking}.] 1. To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor. They must all be masked and vizarded. --Shak. 2. To disguise; to cover; to hide. Masking the business from the common eye. --Shak. 3. (Mil.) a To conceal; also to intervene in the line of b To cover or keep in check; as to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: masking adj : hiding from view; "speeding down the other lane beyond the masking truck"- T.H.White"; "a masking piece is a flat or curtain that hides part of the stage from the audience" n : the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it "the cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft" [syn: {cover}, {covering}, {screening}]
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