Just a few days ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the CDC—issued newmask guidelines. Under these new guidelines, most Americans in most of the country can now bemask free. And based on the projections, more of the country will reach that point across the next couple of weeks.
2021 October 26, Stephanie Zacharek, “The 19 Most Underrated Movies on Netflix”, inTime[2]:
Grouchy and wary and tender, he’s a sozzled hedonist seemingly out for himself—though his party-animal facade is just amask for his bottomless generosity.
1667,John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
This thought might lead me through the world's vainmask.
1749, Henry Fielding,The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
Jones, now taking themask by the hand, fell to entreating her in the most earnest manner, to acquaint him where he might find Sophia; and when he could obtain no direct answer, he began to upbraid her gently[…]
(obsolete) A dramaticperformance in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
(architecture) Agrotesque head or face, used to adornkeystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
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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 mustmask 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, page118:
Many autistic people have language and cognitive skills; [and] theymask 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.
2020 December 30, Jaren Kerr, “Flu almost non-existent this year as coronavirus cases rise across Canada”, inThe Globe and Mail[3]:
Dr. Shelita Dattani, director of professional affairs at the Canadian Pharmacists Association, says[…]. “The efforts that we’re taking to reduce the spread of COVID are working … people aremasking and distancing and staying away from each other and using hand hygiene, so I think all of these efforts combined are contributing to lower rates.”
2018, Sally Cat,PDA by PDAers: From Anxiety to Avoidance and Masking to Meltdowns, Jessica Kingsley Publishers,→ISBN, page86:
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 autisticsmask 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, page132:
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 successfullymask if they struggle with this ability?
(transitive) tocover orshield 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
1993, Richard E. Haskell,Introduction to computer engineering, page287:
That is, the lower nibble (the 4 bits 1010 = A) has beenmasked to zero. This is because ANDing anything with a zero produces a zero, while ANDing any bit with a 1 leaves the bit unchanged[…]
1998, Rick Grehan, Robert Moote, Ingo Cyliax,Real-Time Programming: A Guide to 32-bit Embedded Development,page199:
Some hardware interrupts can bemasked, or disabled; that is, the CPU is told to ignore them.
(psychology, of anautistic person) To learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear moreneurotypical.
2020, Sarah Kurchak,I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder,unnumbered page:
Masking can leave a person with less energy to handle other aspects of their day, from performing basic housework to processing thoughts and feelings.
2021, Felicity Sedgewick, Laura Hull, Helen Ellis,Autism and Masking: How and Why People Do It, and the Impact It Can Have,page220:
Some group members describemasking during therapy in order to seem more likeable to the therapist, or because they felt it necessary in order to be seen as engaging with the support.
2022, Hannah Louise Belcher,Taking Off the Mask: Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimise the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging,page80:
Kayleigh, who was finally diagnosed at 18, felt that shemasked a lot growing up because she "always felt different and was bullied if [she] showed it both at home and in school".
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“mask”, in[EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2009
“mask”, in[ÕS]Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2018,→ISBN
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