different between mask vs mold

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

Alternative forms

• mould (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling)

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?ld, m?ld
• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??ld/, /m??ld/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mo?ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld

Etymology 1

Via Middle English and Old French, from Latin modulus, from Latin modus. Doublet of module and model.

Noun

mold (countable and uncountable, plural molds) (American spelling)

1. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
2. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
3. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
4. The shape or pattern of a mold.
5. General shape or form.
   • 1711, Alexander Pope, "The Temple of Fame", in The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin, Volume 1, J.Murray, p.206

     Crowned with an architrave of antique mould.

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

6. Distinctive character or type.

7. A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.

8. (architecture) A group of moldings.

9. (anatomy) A fontanelle.

Derived terms

• break the mold
• (archaeology): post mold
• (paleontology): fossil mold

Translations

Verb

mold (third-person singular simple present molds, present participle molding, simple past and past participle molded) (American spelling)

1. (transitive) To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
   • 1978, Job 10:8-9, Old Testament, New International Version:

     Your hands shaped me and made me?… Remember that you molded me like clay.

2. (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence
   • 1963. Haile Selassie (translated)

     It is you who must mold the minds of your students that they may be wise, farsighted, intelligent, profound in their thinking, devoted to their country and government and fruitful in their work. It is you who must sense as the example.

3. (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
4. (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
5. (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
6. (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.

   These shoes gradually molded to my feet.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English mowlde, noun use and alteration of mowled, past participle of moulen, mawlen (“to grow moldy”), from Old Norse mygla (compare dialectal Danish mugle), from Proto-Germanic *mugl?n?, diminutive and denominative of *mukiz 'soft substance' (compare Old Norse myki, mykr (“cow dung”)), from Proto-Indo-European *mewk- (“slick, soft”). More at muck and meek.

Noun

mold (countable and uncountable, plural molds) (American spelling)

2. A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air.

Derived terms

• moldy, mouldy
• moulder

Translations

See also

• mildew

Verb

mold (third-person singular simple present molds, present participle molding, simple past and past participle molded) (American spelling)

1. (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
2. (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.

Etymology 3

From Old English molde, from Proto-Germanic *muld? ‘dirt, soil’ (compare Old Frisian molde, Middle Dutch moude, Dutch moude, obsolete German Molte, Norwegian Bokmål mold), from Proto-Indo-European *ml?-t? (compare Old Irish moll ‘bran’, Lithuanian mìltai ‘flour’), from *mel- (compare English meal). More at meal.

Noun

mold (countable and uncountable, plural molds)

1. Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
2. (Britain, dialectal, chiefly plural) Earth, ground.

Alternative forms

• mool

Derived terms

• leaf mold
• vegetable mold

Translations

Verb

mold (third-person singular simple present molds, present participle molding, simple past and past participle molded) (American spelling)

1. To cover with mold or soil.

Anagrams

• LMDO

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muld? ‘dirt, soil’, from Proto-Indo-European *ml?-t?, from *mel-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?lt]

Noun

mold f (genitive singular moldar, uncountable)

1. (agriculture) earth, humus soil, humus layer
   • tá myndaði Harrin Guð mannin av mold jarðar

     And the Lord God formed man of the soil of the ground (Genesis 2,7)

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muld? (“dirt, soil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

mold f (genitive singular moldar, nominative plural moldir)

1. dirt, mould, humus, ground, earth

Declension

Middle English

Noun

mold

1. Alternative form of molle (“mole”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mold (“earth, dirt, soil”), from Proto-Germanic *muld? (“mould, soil, dirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“to grind, crush”), from *mel- (“to rub”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m?l?/

Noun

mold f or m (definite singular molda or molden, uncountable)

1. humus, earth, soil, topsoil

Alternative forms

• muld

References

• “mold” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “mold” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse mold, from Proto-Germanic *muld?.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m?l?/

Noun

mold f (definite singular molda, uncountable)

1. humus, earth, soil, topsoil

References

• “mold” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *muld? (“dirt, soil”). Cognate with Old English molde (English mold), Old High German molta, Gothic ???????????????????? (mulda).

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /mõld/

Noun

mold f (genitive moldar, plural moldir)

1. earth, dirt, soil
   • V?luspá, verse 2

Declension

Descendants

References

• mold in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press