Character vs Mask - What's the difference?
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A being involved in the action of a story.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
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, title= A distinguishing feature; characteristic.
A complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person or a group.
* Motley
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
A written or printed symbol, or letter.
* Holder
Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
* Shakespeare
(computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
(informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.
(mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
(dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.
* Addison
(dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to his/her behaviour, competence, etc.
A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade
* (rfdate) :
(obsolete) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
(architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
(fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
(fortification) A screen for a battery
(zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
(Puebloan, anthropology) A ceremonial object used in Puebloan kachina cults that resembles a Euro-American masks. (The term is objected as an appropriate translation by Puebloan peoples as it emphasizes imitation but ignores power and representational intent.)
(computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
(computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, IV,vi :
To disguise; to cover; to hide.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare, Macbeth, III-i :
(military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
(military) To cover or keep in check.
To take part as a masker in a masquerade
To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way
(computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
* 1993 , Richard E. Haskell, Introduction to computer engineering (page 287)
(computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting the associated bit.
* 1998 , Rick Grehan, ?Robert Moote, ?Ingo Cyliax, Real-time programming: a guide to 32-bit embedded development
To mash.
(brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
As nouns the difference between character and mask
is that character is while mask is a cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection or mask can be a mesh or mask can be mash.As a verb mask is
to cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor or mask can be to mash or mask can be to bewilder; confuse.character
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Noun
Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, passage=But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it. }}
- a man of thoroughly subservient character
- He has a great deal of character .
- Julius Caesar is a great historical character .
- It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.
- an inscription in the Runic character
- You know the character to be your brother's?
- in the miserable character of a slave
- in his character as a magistrate
- a man's character for truth and veracity
- Her actions give her a bad character .
- This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.
Usage notes
A comparison of character'' and ''reputation'': It would be well if ''character'' and ''reputation were used distinctively. In truth, character is what a person is; reputation is what he is supposed to be. Character is in himself, reputation is in the minds of others. Character is injured by temptations, and by wrongdoing; reputation by slanders, and libels. Character endures throughout defamation in every form, but perishes when there is a voluntary transgression; reputation may last through numerous transgressions, but be destroyed by a single, and even an unfounded, accusation or aspersion.Derived terms
* cartoon character * character actor * character assassination * character class * character encoding * characterise / characterize * characterisation / characterization * characteristic * characterless * character recognition * character set * character theory * Chinese character * control character * dominant character * escape character * fictional character * in character * null character * out of character * player character * round character * staple character * stock character * whitespace character (character)See also
* codepoint * font * glyph * letter * symbol * rune * pictogramStatistics
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(wikipedia mask)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . . * Derived from the -r- form: (etyl) maschera, (etyl) and (etyl) , (etyl) masker, (etyl) masquerade. * Derived from the form lacking -r- : German Maske and Swedish mask.Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- a dancer's mask'''; a fencer's '''mask'''; a ball player's '''mask
- (Francis Bacon)
- This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask .
Hyponyms
* (a cover for the face) (l), (l)Derived terms
* dust mask * death mask * gas mask, gasmask * mask house(qualifier) * screen mask * unmaskVerb
(en verb)- They must all be masked and vizarded
- Masking the business from the common eye
- to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out
- (Cavendish)
- (Shakespeare)
- That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has been masked to zero. This is because ANDing anything with a zero produces a zero, while ANDing any bit with a 1 leaves the bit unchanged
- When should you mask a specific interrupt, rather than disabling all interrupts?