Usually means: Covering concealing face or identity.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mask: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mask: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mask: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mask: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mask: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mask, mask: Wordnik
  7. mask: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mask: Wiktionary
  9. mask: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mask: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mask: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mask: Dictionary.com
  13. mask (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mask: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. M.A.S.K, M.A.S.K. (TV series), MASK (franchise), Mask (Bauhaus album), Mask (DC Comics), Mask (Forgotten Realms), Mask (Roger Glover album), Mask (Vangelis album), Mask (computing), Mask (disambiguation), Mask (film), Mask, The Mask (Gotham), The Mask (disambiguation), The Mask (film), The Mask (movie), The Mask (novel), The Mask (short story), The Mask (video game), The Mask, The mask: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mask: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mask: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mask: Rhymezone
  19. mask: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mask: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mask: Free Dictionary
  22. mask: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Mask, mask: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. mask: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. mask: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Mask: Glossary of Binary Graphics
  3. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  4. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  5. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mask: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mask: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. Mask (computing), mask: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. mask: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MASK: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. mask: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mask: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. mask: Archaeology Wordsmith
  3. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mask: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. M.A.S.K, M.A.S.K, mask, the mask: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  4. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
noun:  That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
noun:  (poetic) Appearance, likeness.
noun:  A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
noun:  A person wearing a mask.
noun:  (obsolete) A dramatic performance in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
noun:  (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
noun:  (fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
noun:  (fortification) A screen for a battery.
noun:  (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
noun:  (publishing, film) A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
noun:  (computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
noun:  (computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
noun:  (heraldry) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
noun:  (psychology) A social phenomenon where autistic people learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.
verb:  (transitive) To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
verb:  (transitive) To disguise as something else.
verb:  (transitive) To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
verb:  (transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
verb:  (transitive, military) To cover or keep in check.
verb:  (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
verb:  (intransitive) To wear a mask.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To disguise oneself, to be disguised in any way.
verb:  (intransitive) To conceal or disguise one's autism.
verb:  (transitive) to cover or shield a part of a design or picture in order to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting
verb:  (transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
noun:  mesh
noun:  (UK dialectal, Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
noun:  (UK dialectal) Mash.
verb:  (transitive, UK dialectal) To mash.
verb:  (transitive, UK dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
verb:  (transitive, Scotland dialectal) To be infused or steeped.
verb:  (UK dialectal, Scotland) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
verb:  (transitive, UK dialectal) To bewilder; confuse.

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