How do you feel about masks? Psychologists say that when a person covers his face, he symbolically relieves himself of responsibility for his actions. Therefore, when bandits use, for example, hats pierced in appropriate places, this is no accident. But we will talk, of course, about more pleasant things, although not far from criminals. We are concerned with the question of what is a mask. We will analyze this today.
Origin
The paradox of interpretation is that it seems to us that the tone of the word is obviously understandable. For example, the object of study clearly carries some kind of negative meaning. But perhaps this is an illusion. Since while we do not know the meaning of the word "mask", it is difficult for us to say anything about its tone and emotional pole. For example, do you know that “crypt” in Polish means “shop”? And say the same word to a Russian, his hair will probably move. So everything is relative.
So our object of study is derived from the "face" and borrowed fromOld Church Slavonic. The “face” itself does not carry any negative meaning in itself, unless various adjectives are added to it. But the face - that's another question. Yes, they forgot to say that "face" is "face" (tired and tall).
Meaning
Immediately, as to a life-giving source, we rush to the explanatory dictionary, and there:
- Same as mask (in the first value). Currently obsolete.
- Hypocritical behavior, pretense (literal and figurative).
We know enough about the mask. There was even such a movie with Jim Carrey back in 1994. But how often do we look in the dictionary to check the meaning of a word? This case cannot be missed. Let's decipher the first meaning of the word "mask": "A special overlay that hides the face (sometimes with the image of a human face or an animal muzzle), with cutouts for the eyes." That's how long it is. But the "mask" is much shorter. There are words that, it seems, we cannot explain more easily than they are. If a person finds himself in such a situation, then an explanatory dictionary will always help him out, which can determine a huge number of words. True, it cannot be said that his wording is chased.
Offers
For this section, it is important to remember the expression "under the guise". It means the following: to use something as an excuse when the true motives are completely different. Let's illustrate the meanings of the object of study and expression with sentences:
- Imagine, he came to me under the guise of extremeneeds and began to ask for money for an apartment when he found out that I had won a million dollars! Although I know that he recently bought a car for himself!
- At the ball, Marina put on a fox mask, or, in the old way, a mask. This image perfectly characterized her nature.
- Nothing, I just need to collect evidence and I will rip off his vile guise of a sage and benefactor of young scientists. I know that he launders money through his foundation. True, I can’t support the statements with facts in any way, so I’m silent for now.
Yes, "face" is an unpleasant noun. But there is no need to be afraid of him, because, as Vladimir Sorokin said, these are just words on paper.
