different between mask vs film

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cavendish to this entry?)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/, [f??m]
  • Rhymes: -?lm
• (North East England, Ireland) IPA^(key): [?f?lm?], [?f?l?m]

Etymology

From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian pl?v? (“membrane, scab”), Russian ?????? (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek ????? (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.

Noun

film (countable and uncountable, plural films)

1. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
2. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
3. A movie.
4. (film, uncountable) Cinema; movies as a group.
5. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

Synonyms

• (motion picture): movie

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

film (third-person singular simple present films, present participle filming, simple past and past participle filmed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.

2. (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

Translations

Anagrams

• MILF, milf

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch film, from English film, or borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/

Noun

film (plural films)

1. film

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

Noun

film m (indefinite plural filma, definite singular filmi, definite plural filmat)

1. film
2. movie

Declension

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [film]

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filml?r)

1. film, movie

Declension

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?film/

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. film (a movie)

   Synonym: pel·lícula

Related terms

• filmar
• fílmic

Further reading

• “film” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film

1. film (clarification of this definition is needed)

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lm/

Noun

film m inan

1. (photography) film
2. movie, film, motion picture

Declension

Derived terms

• filmovat
• filma?

Further reading

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

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/, [?film]
• Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film c (singular definite filmen, plural indefinite film)

1. a movie, a film, motion picture
2. film; a thin layer
3. plural indefinite of film

Inflection

Derived terms

• filme
  • filmning
• filmfotograf
• filmhold
• filmproduktion
• filmskole

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?l?m/, /f?lm/
• Rhymes: -?lm, -?l?m

Noun

film m (plural films, diminutive filmpje n)

1. film, movie

Derived terms

• filmproducent
• filmregisseur
• speelfilm
• tekenfilm
• verfilmen

Estonian

Etymology

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Noun

film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)

1. movie

Declension

Derived terms

• filmindus
• filmilint
• värvifilm

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. movie, film

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Albanian: film
• ? Romanian: film
• ? Turkish: film

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?film]
• Hyphenation: film
• Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film (plural filmek)

1. (photography) film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
2. film, movie, motion picture, picture (a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion)
3. film, cinematic art, cinema, cinematography (the art of making films and movies)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• film in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From earlier pilem, from Dutch film, from English film.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): [?f?lm]
• (Betawi) IPA^(key): /?f?l(?)m/, /?pel?m/

Noun

film (first-person possessive filmku, second-person possessive filmmu, third-person possessive filmnya)

1. film,
   1. a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
   2. (photography) a medium used to capture images in a camera.
   3. a movie, a motion picture, a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion.

Alternative forms

• filem (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Affixed terms

Further reading

• “film” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From English film.

Noun

film m (invariable)

1. film, movie

   Synonym: pellicola

Derived terms

See also

• cinema

Further reading

• film in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. (Jersey) movie, film

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmer, definite plural filmene)

1. a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
2. a film (thin material, layer or coating)
3. a film, movie (cinematic production)

Derived terms

Related terms

• filme

Verb

film

1. imperative of filme

References

• “film” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmar, definite plural filmane)

1. a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
2. a film (thin material, layer or coating)
3. a film, movie (cinematic production)

Derived terms

References

• “film” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ilm/

Noun

film m inan (diminutive filmik)

1. film, movie, motion picture
2. film (medium used to capture images in a camera)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) filmografia, filmowiec
• (adjectives) filmowy, filmograficzny

Further reading

• film in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

film m (plural filmes)

1. Superseded spelling of filme.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, German Film, from English film.

Noun

film n (plural filme)

1. movie, film

Declension

References

• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From English film, from Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“thin skin, membrane”), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?filim/

Noun

film m (genitive singular film, plural filmichean)

1. film, movie

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

f?lm m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. film (photography)
2. film (motion picture)

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi?m/

Noun

film m (genitive singular filmu, nominative plural filmy, genitive plural filmov, declension pattern of dub)

1. photographic film
2. movie, motion picture

Declension

Derived terms

• filmár
• filmova?
• filmový
• filmovo
• filmík

Further reading

• film in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Etymology

From English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?film/, [?film]

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. film, motion picture

Further reading

• “film” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

film c

1. film; a thin layer
2. film; medium used to capture images in a camera
3. a movie

Declension

Related terms

References

• film in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/
• IPA^(key): /filim/ (colloquial)

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)

1. a medium used to capture images in a camera
2. a movie

Declension

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ????? (fil?m), from English film.

Noun

film (plural filmlar)

1. film, movie, motion picture

   Synonyms: kino, kinofilm, kartina

Declension

Related terms

• filmoskop
• filmoteka