MASKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does masked mean? 

• MASKED (adjective)
  The adjective MASKED has 2 senses:

1. having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading

2. having markings suggestive of a mask

  Familiarity information: MASKED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading

Synonyms:

cloaked; disguised; masked

Context example:

masked threat

Similar:

covert (secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having markings suggestive of a mask

Context example:

the masked face of a raccoon

Similar:

marked (having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination)

 Context examples 

“We both think more than we have said; let us make a clean breast. This masked figure that you saw, did you recognise it?”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This locks DNA polymerase thereby resulting in "masked termination" during DNA replication.

(Gemcitabine, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the roles of individuals who are masked for blinded studies.

(Blinded Role Code, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the roles of individuals who are masked for single or double blind studies.

(Interventional Study Protocol Version Blinded Role Code, NCI Thesaurus)

At least one month after the masked study injection, 13 participants chose to receive open-label botulinum toxin injections in areas that remained in spasm and were then followed for at least four months.

(Scientists identify spasm in women with endometriosis-associated chronic pelvic pain, National Institutes of Health)

An individual qualified to perform an evaluation who is masked from a subject's data in order to minimize bias or maximize consistency and quality.

(Independent Rater, NCI Thesaurus)

One in five people with masked hypertension never register as having high blood pressure in a clinical setting, according to another study.

(High Blood Pressure Liked to Long Hours on Job, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I touched Holmes on the arm, and he turned his masked face in that direction.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What creature was it, that, masked in an ordinary woman's face and shape, uttered the voice, now of a mocking demon, and anon of a carrion-seeking bird of prey?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines masked the full impact of greenhouse gases on accelerating sea level rise, according to a new study.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)