masking

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act by which something is masked; the act of masking, of concealing or disguising. countable,uncountable
    — “To function effectively in any social situation,” writes Booth, “we all engage in masking of one kind or another: we do some prettying up: we adorn, […]"
  2. An entertainment at which the guests conceal their faces with masks. countable,uncountable
    — The vassals or tenants collected in the hall for Christmas masking and mumming—the peasant gathering that May-day called out upon the green, drew together ranks whose distance, in our day, occasions forgetfulness on one side, and discontent on the other.
  3. The practice of wearing safety masks, such as face masks. countable,uncountable
    — For millions of American lives touched by the coronavirus, it was too late to correct the failure to stand up protocols for masking and social distancing, testing and contact-tracing. But negative consequences of the culture war around the pandemic could still lie ahead, damaging the national vaccination effort.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of mask form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

maskings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antimasking backmasking backward masking high-masking low-masking masking crab masking tape overmasking phenotypic masking photomasking universal masking

词源

词源 1
By surface analysis, mask + -ing.
词源 2
By surface analysis, mask + -ing.
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