Mask vs Dissimulate - What's the difference?

Mask is a related term of dissimulate.

In lang=en terms the difference between mask and dissimulate

is that mask is to wear a mask; to be disguised in any way while dissimulate is to hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance.

As verbs the difference between mask and dissimulate

is that 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 while dissimulate is to practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance.

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.

As an adjective dissimulate is

feigning; simulating; pretending.

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 cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.

a dancer's mask'''; a fencer's '''mask'''; a ball player's '''mask

That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.

A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade

(Francis Bacon)

* (rfdate) :

This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask .

(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.

Hyponyms

* (a cover for the face) (l), (l)

Derived terms

* dust mask * death mask * gas mask, gasmask * mask house(qualifier) * screen mask * unmask

Verb

(en verb)

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 :

They must all be masked and vizarded

To disguise; to cover; to hide.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare, Macbeth, III-i :

Masking the business from the common eye

(military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.

(military) To cover or keep in check.

to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out

To take part as a masker in a masquerade

(Cavendish)

To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way

(Shakespeare)

(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)

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

(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

When should you mask a specific interrupt, rather than disabling all interrupts?

Etymology 2

From (etyl) maske, from (etyl) max, .

Noun

(en noun)

A mesh.

The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)

Mash.

Verb

(en verb)

To mash.

(brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.

To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.

Etymology 4

From (etyl) masken, short for . More at (l).

Verb

(en verb)

To bewilder; confuse.

References

Anagrams

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dissimulate

English

Verb

(en-verb)

To practise deception by concealment or omission or by feigning a false appearance.

* 1912 Booth Tarkington, The Flirt , Chapter 13

But now, as he paced alone in his apartment, now that he was not upon exhibition, now when there was no eye to behold him, and there was no reason to dissimulate or veil a single thought or feeling, his look was anything but open; the last trace of frankness disappeared; the muscles at mouth and eyes shifted; lines and planes intermingled and altered subtly; there was a moment of misty transformation -- and the face of another man emerged. It was the face of a man uninstructed in mercy; it was a shrewd and planning face: alert, resourceful, elaborately perceptive, and flawlessly hard.

To hide or disguise by adopting a false appearance.

Public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.

(rare) To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.

* 1533 John Bourchier (Lord Berners), The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius 9:

That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children.

Derived terms

* dissimulation

Adjective

(-)

Feigning; simulating; pretending.

(Henryson)

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