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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
masked
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
masked ball
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ball
▪ The city seems like it is preparing for a masked ball.
▪ Ideas had been ruthlessly stolen from the Nice masked ball at Mardi Gras.
▪ Mercutio is in high spirits, teasing Romeo about his love as they prepare to go to the Capulet masked ball.
▪ He had just won her gracious consent to attend the Grand Duke Igor's masked ball in two weeks' time.
▪ You can make different kinds of mask for a witch or a pirate, or more elaborate ones for a masked ball.
man
▪ Paris children held hostage An masked man armed with a revolver is holding twenty-five children hostage in a nursery school in Paris.
▪ But the sight of masked men with a gun would put people in fear, he said.
▪ There in front of her was the masked man!
▪ Read in studio Two twelve year old girls have been sexually assaulted by a masked man in Milton Keynes.
▪ Yesterday morning two masked men walked into her Oxford home through an open back door.
▪ A girl screamed, and a masked man ran through the bar, pursued by two cops in turn-of-the-century uniforms.
▪ On the night of the killings a dozen armed masked men broke into the workers' dormitories.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a masked gunman
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Guildford returned leading a large company of masked figures who marched into the hall to the raucous clamour of tambour and fife.
▪ Ideas had been ruthlessly stolen from the Nice masked ball at Mardi Gras.
▪ It is said that the masked lady died there in childbirth.
▪ Read in studio A masked robber armed with a shotgun has held up a newsagent's shop.
▪ Read in studio Two twelve year old girls have been sexually assaulted by a masked man in Milton Keynes.
▪ The city seems like it is preparing for a masked ball.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Masked

Masked \Masked\, a.

  1. Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; concealed; hidden.

  2. (Bot.) Same as Personate.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.

    Masked ball, a ball in which the dancers wear masks.

    Masked battery (Mil.), a battery so placed as not to be seen by an enemy until it opens fire.
    --H. L. Scott.

    Masked crab (Zo["o]l.), a European crab ( Corystes cassivelaunus) with markings on the carapace somewhat resembling a human face.

    Masked pig (Zo["o]l.), a Japanese domestic hog ( Sus pliciceps). Its face is deeply furrowed.

Masked

Mask \Mask\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Masked; p. pr. & vb. n. Masking.]

  1. To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.

    They must all be masked and vizarded.
    --Shak.

  2. To disguise; to cover; to hide.

    Masking the business from the common eye.
    --Shak.

  3. (Mil.)

    1. To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.

    2. To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortress by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.

Wiktionary
masked
  1. 1 Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; concealed; hidden. 2 (context botany English) personate 3 (context zoology English) Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds. alt. (en-past of: mask) v

  2. (en-past of: mask)

WordNet
masked

adj. having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading; "hidden agenda"; "masked threat" [syn: cloaked, disguised]

Wikipedia
Masked (film)

Masked is a 1920 American short Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and featuring Hoot Gibson.

Masked (album)

Masked is Machinemade God's second full-length album, released on Metal Blade Records on September 4, 2007. The band has changed direction towards a more melodic sound with elements of melodic death metal used. Masked is the final album with vocalist Flow Velten.

Masked (The Secret Circle)

"Masked" is the 7th episode of the first season of the CW television series The Secret Circle, and the series' 7th episode overall. It was aired on October 27, 2011. The episode was written by Michelle Lovretta and it was directed by Charles Beeson.

Usage examples of "masked".

His bold, Hanshire arrogance masked a consuming concern, that his plans would be balked despite the extreme measures taken.

Shadow masked him, while his ears rang and burned to the language of wind, singing litanies over bared granite.

The masked bargeman leaned on his pole, and looked thoughtfully about him.

The fisherman bent his head aside, and regarded the figure of his masked companion, for a moment, with indifference, betraying neither curiosity nor feeling at his address.

According to the newspaper, the police defined the robber as the same masked man who had entered a brokerage office two days ago and forced the owner to hand over a batch of securities that were in his desk drawer.

Spoleto Festival, Buccaneer Days was a nonstop extravaganza of parties, masked balls, parades, street fairs, a beauty pageant, and nightly sea battles.

I closed my eyes and opened them again, imagining myself in an earlier time, when masked women in wide cloaks stepped into gondolas, the gondolas that now rode emptily in their moorage in the wide basin to our left.

Lal already had one of the tents nearly erected, and Moreen watched his deft fingers at work, with an anxiety none the less because it was masked.

Gondas were clustered in flotillas along either bank, filled and overfilled with masked and costumed figures, standing shapes balanced precariously against the chop where the two currents met.

After that came pyramids and crystals, positive and negative ion generators, a grow-your-own-clone booth, a tarot reader, a palmist, a noodle stand, cheap body organs and cyberware, another noodle stand, soykaf, a Sidewalk Doc, and a group of masked men big enough to be orks, all wearing the black hoods, jumpsuits, gloves, and boots of the Sanitation Department.

Corrupt, wise, weary old Earth fought with masked weapons, since only hidden weapons could maintain so ancient a sovereigntysovereignty which had long since lapsed into a titular paramountcy among the communities of mankind.

It was erect and vaguely manlike, but covered with a pelt of long grayish fur, and it had long prehensile fingers and a face like a masked monkey.

Three similarly masked blind men stood nearby passing out printed leaflets about cultural recidivism and the coming Dark Age.

The masked and cloaked lady floating in the air just above their reach, reclining at her ease on nothing, was all too familiar.

George Anthony was the masked criminal who had hired the Rego mob to steal the alloy powder.