Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Wearing a mask.
- adj. Disguised or concealed as if by a mask: masked emotions.
- adj. Latent or hidden, as a symptom or disease.
- adj. Botany Personate.
- adj. Zoology Having masklike markings on the head or face.
- adj. Zoology Having the anatomy of the next developmental form outlined beneath the integument, as in certain insect pupae.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the face covered with a mask; disguised or concealed.
- Bewildered; amazed.
- In zoology: Larvate or larval: thus, a caterpillar is the masked state of a butterfly.
- In entomology, applied to pupæ which have the wings, legs, etc., of the future imago indicated by lines on the surface, as in Lepidoptera.
- Marked on the head or face as if literally wearing a mask; capistrate; personate.
- In botany, same as personate.
- In pathology, same as larval, 2.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of mask.
- adj. Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; concealed; hidden.
- adj. botany personate
- adj. zoology Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; concealed; hidden.
- adj. (Bot.) Same as Personate.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading
- adj. having markings suggestive of a mask
Examples
“Her expression masked, she nodded toward the remaining stragglers veering toward their cars.”
“In his words “We aren’t going anywhere” and using the term masked the situation.”
“But Savage has barriers put between him and his destiny by Mayans with red-tipped fingers, the warriors led by a villain masked as Kukulcan, the Feathered Serpent.”
“Mr. Heyman spends most of his time delving through financial statements, looking for strong cash-flow potential that is being masked from a company's earnings performance due to accounting expenses, like depreciation of assets, that don't always reflect reality.”
“It is only lightly masked, that is to say, by American channels such as section A of the New York Times.”
The Huffington Post: David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran
“They called him "chief" or "the boss man," and they only exchanged his telephone number in code, masked as lottery numbers.”
“No, no crash for me, looks like it was a different issue, masked from the same IE error window. doh!”
“Throwing it on, I call the masked heeler out of the warm truck.”
“With his expression masked, the man beside her considered her.”
“Creeper may be a harsh term, but what else do you call a masked man hiding behind a tree?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘masked’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
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feeling words
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Some Wednesday words
Just another arbitrary list of words that come up for me today, June 20 2007
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favorite words
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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