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Cloaking vs Masking - What's the difference?

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Cloaking is a related term of masking.


As verbs the difference between cloaking and masking

is that cloaking is while masking is .

As nouns the difference between cloaking and masking

is that cloaking is the act of wrapping or covering with a cloak while masking is the act by which something is masked.

cloaking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of wrapping or covering with a cloak.
  • * Strype
    • to take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings
  • * (Sir Walter Scott), Guy Mannering – or The Astrologer
    • I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings , his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.
  • The material from which cloaks are made.

    • masking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * antimasking * masking tape

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is masked.
  • An entertainment at which the guests conceal their faces with masks.
  • * 1984 , John Norman, Players of Gor
    • Such things, maskings , and disguisings, and dressing up, sometimes in incredible and wild fashions, are all part of the fun of carnival.

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