Disguise vs Smokescreen - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between disguise and smokescreen

is that disguise is attire (eg clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another while smokescreen is smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.

As a verb disguise

is to change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.

disguise

English

Noun

(en noun)

Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.

''That cape and mask complete his disguise .

(figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.

The act of disguising, notably as a ploy

''Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.

Synonyms

* camouflage * guise * mask * pretense

Verb

To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.

Spies often disguise themselves.

* Macaulay

Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.

To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.

He disguised his true intentions.

(archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

* Spectator

I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.

Synonyms

* cloak * mask * hide

Derived terms

* disguisedly * disguisement * disguiser

smokescreen

English

(wikipedia smokescreen)

Alternative forms

* smoke screen

Noun

(en noun)

Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.

Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.

All that talk is just a smokescreen to disguise the fact that he has nothing to say.