different between mask vs domino

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??sk/
• (General American, UK) IPA^(key): /mæsk/
• Rhymes: -æsk, -??sk
• Homophones: masque, masc (some accents)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha, a borrowing of Proto-West Germanic *mask? from which English mesh is regularly inherited. Replaced Old English gr?ma (“mask”), whence grime, and displaced non-native Middle English viser (“visor, mask”) borrowed from Old French viser, visier.

Alternative forms

• masque (archaic, noun, verb)

Noun

mask (plural masks)

1. 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

2. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
3. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

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

4. A person wearing a mask.
   • 1880, George Washington Cable, The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life

     the mask that has the arm of the Indian queen
5. (obsolete) A dramatic performance in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
6. (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like

   Synonym: mascaron

7. (fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
8. (fortification) A screen for a battery
9. (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
10. (publishing, film) A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
11. (computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
12. (computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
13. (heraldry) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.

Synonyms

• vizard (archaic)

Hyponyms

• (a cover for the face): domino mask, sleep mask

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

mask (third-person singular simple present masks, present participle masking, simple past and past participle masked)

1. (transitive) To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
2. (transitive) To disguise; to cover; to hide.
   • 1998, Rudolf Jakhel, Modern Sports Karate: Basics of Techniques and Tactics, Meyer & Meyer Sport (?ISBN)

     The opponent must not be able to recognize when we inhale and when we exhale. We achieve this by breathing with the diaphragm and we do not raise the shoulders while breathing. In particular we must mask when we are out of breath.

   • 2020, Lisa Morgan, Mary Donahue, Living with PTSD on the Autism Spectrum: Insightful Analysis with Practical Applications, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (?ISBN), page 118:

     Many autistic people have language and cognitive skills; [and] they mask their autism, cover up social discomfort, and work hard to be someone they are not, so people often see them as “fitting in” just fine.

3. (transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
4. (transitive, military) To cover or keep in check.

5. (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.

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6. (intransitive) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
7. (intransitive) To conceal or disguise one's autism.
   • 2018, Sally Cat, PDA by PDAers: From Anxiety to Avoidance and Masking to Meltdowns, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (?ISBN), page 86:

     Masking is exhausting and some autistics require copious amounts of time afterwards to recover from hiding who they are and pretending to be someone they aren't. Even when autistics mask they don't always pass fully as an NT person.

   • 2021, Yenn Purkis, Wenn B. Lawson, The Autistic Trans Guide to Life, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (?ISBN), page 132:

     So, masking seems to be a very poor explanation for the difference in gender diagnosis of autism. In particular, masking requires theory of mind. How can autistic people successfully mask if they struggle with this ability?

8. (transitive) to cover or shield a part of a design or picture in order to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting
9. (transitive, 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 […]

10. (transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.

Derived terms

• maskable
• masked
• unmask

Related terms

• mascara

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English maske, from Old English max, mas? (“net”), from Proto-West Germanic *mask? (“mesh, netting, mask”). Doublet of mesh and mask above.

Noun

mask (plural masks)

1. mesh
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *mask, masch, from Old English m?x, m?sc (“mash”). Doublet of mash.

Noun

mask (plural masks)

1. (Britain dialectal) Mash.

Verb

mask (third-person singular simple present masks, present participle masking, simple past and past participle masked)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To mash.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
3. (transitive, Scotland dialectal) To be infused or steeped.
4. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.

Etymology 4

From Middle English masken, short for *maskeren, malskren (“to bewilder; be confused, wander”). More at masker.

Verb

mask (third-person singular simple present masks, present participle masking, simple past and past participle masked)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To bewilder; confuse.

References

Anagrams

• KAMs, ma'ks, maks

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish maþker, from Old Norse maðkr. Cognate with English mawk, Danish maddike and Finnish matikka.

Pronunciation

Noun

mask c

1. worm

Declension

Derived terms

• daggmask

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French masque.

Pronunciation

Noun

mask c

1. mask; a cover designed to disguise or protect the face

Declension

Derived terms

• maskera
• maskerad
• maskering

Anagrams

• kams, skam, smak

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French domino (1801), from Medieval Latin domino, from Latin dominus (“lord, master”); compare Medieval Latin dominicale (“a kind of veil”). The game is said to be so called from the black under surface or part of the pieces with which it is played.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?'m?n?, IPA^(key): /?d?m?n??/
• (US) enPR: däm?n?, IPA^(key): /?d?m?no?/

Noun

domino (plural dominos or dominoes)

1. (dominoes) A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes. [from c. 1800]
2. (politics) A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect.
3. A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face.

   Synonym: domino costume

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 485:

     all the women were desirous of having the bundle immediately opened; which operation was at length performed by little Betsy, with the consent of Mr Jones: and the contents were found to be a domino, a mask, and a masquerade ticket.

   • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1007:

     Then he hunted for the black carnival domino, supposing that it was the appropriate thing for a penitent to wear.

4. The mask itself.

   Synonyms: domino mask, half mask, eyemask
5. The person wearing the costume.
6. (geometry) A polyomino made up of two squares.

   Synonym: 2-omino

7. (music, colloquial) A mistake in performing.
   • 1932, The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular (page 263)

     Any player is liable to make a 'domino' — that is to say, he goes wool-gathering and continues to play when everyone else has stopped. If he does so at a grown-up concert the fault is irredeemable […]

Derived terms

Related terms

• dominate

Translations

Verb

domino (third-person singular simple present dominoes, present participle dominoing, simple past and past participle dominoed)

1. (intransitive) To collapse in the manner of dominoes.
   • 2010, Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey ?ISBN, page 107:

     A dismasting often means the dominoing of one mast into the other, down through the decks, cannoning the cargo through the hull below, and sinking the ship very quickly.

2. (transitive) To cause to collapse in the manner of dominoes.

Translations

Further reading

• domino in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• domino in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• monoid

Catalan

Verb

domino

1. first-person singular present indicative form of dominar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dom?no]
• Rhymes: -?no

Noun

domino n

1. dominoes

Further reading

• domino in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• domino in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?domino/, [?do?mino?]
• Rhymes: -omino
• Syllabification: do?mi?no

Noun

domino

1. (dominoes) dominoes
2. (dominoes) a domino (tile)

Declension

Anagrams

• moodin

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin domino, from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).

Pronunciation

Noun

domino m (plural dominos)

1. dominoes
2. (in the plural) a domino set
3. (in the singular) a domino tile

Derived terms

• effet domino

Further reading

• “domino” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French domino, from Medieval Latin domino, from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).

Noun

domino m (plural domini)

1. dominoes

Verb

domino

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of domare
2. third-person plural imperative of domare

Verb

domino

1. first-person singular present indicative of dominare

Japanese

Romanization

domino

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Latin

Noun

domin?

1. dative singular of dominus
2. ablative singular of dominus

References

• domino in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• domino in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French domino, from Latin dominus

Noun

domino m (definite singular dominoen, indefinite plural dominoer, definite plural dominoene)

1. dominoes (game)
2. a domino (cloak)

Derived terms

• dominobrikke

References

• “domino” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “domino_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “domino_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French domino, from Latin dominus

Noun

domino m (definite singular dominoen, indefinite plural dominoar, definite plural dominoane)

1. dominoes (game)
2. a domino (cloak)

Derived terms

• dominobrikke

References

• “domino” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From French domino, from Medieval Latin domin?, from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??m?i.n?/

Noun

domino n

1. (dominoes) dominoes

Declension

Noun

domino n

1. domino costume (masquerade costume)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) dominowy

Further reading

• domino in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• domino in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Verb

domino

1. first-person singular present indicative of dominar

Romanian

Etymology

From French domino

Noun

domino n (plural dominouri)

1. domino

Declension

Spanish

Verb

domino

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of dominar.

Swedish

Noun

domino n (uncountable)

1. dominoes; a type of game

Declension

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dominó (“domino”).

Noun

dominó

1. domino