Ear vs Mask - What's the difference?
ear | mask |
(countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
(countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
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(countable, slang) A police informant.
* 1976 , Stirling Silliphant, Dean Riesner, Gail Morgan Hickman, .
The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones.
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The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
* (Francis Bacon)
* (William Shakespeare)
That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle.
(architecture) An acroterium.
(architecture) A crossette.
(humorous) To take in with the ears; to hear.
* Two Noble Kinsmen
(countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.
(archaic) To plough.
* 1595 , William Shakespeare, Richard II :
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 verbs the difference between ear and mask
is that ear is (label) refuse, deny; repel while 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.As a noun 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.ear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), .Noun
(en noun)- No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear.
- songsnot all ungrateful to thine ear
- Dionysiuswould give no ear to his suit.
- Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears .
Alternative forms
* ereDerived terms
* bend somebody's ear * between the ears * by ear * cauliflower ear * earache * earbud * ear canal * eardrum * earful * earhole * earlobe * earmark * earpiece * earphone * earprint * earring * ears are burning * earshot * earsore * ear to the ground * ear trumpet * earwax * external ear * have one's ears lowered * inner ear * little pitchers have big ears * make a silk purse of a sow's ear * middle ear * mind's ear * out on one's ear * outer ear * surfer’s ear * swimmer’s ear * (ear)Verb
(en verb)- I eared her language.
See also
* (wikipedia) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (m).Noun
(en noun)- He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.
Synonyms
* head * spikeEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- That power I have, discharge; and let them go
- To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,
- For I have none.
mask
English
(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?