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Unmasking

Definition: Unmasking

Unmasking

Noun

1. The exposure of an impostor or a fraud; "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unmasking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)


Synonym: Unmasking

Synonym: expose (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unmasking

Specialty definitions using "unmasking": decoy shipQ-ship. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unmasking

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Unmasking (1915)

Unmasking the Horror (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Unmasking

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality Disorders of Our Age (reference)

  • True Self/False Self : Unmasking the Spirit Within (reference)

  • Unmasking Male Depression (reference)

  • Unmasking the Rose: A Record of a Kundalini Initiation (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unmasking

"Unmasking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Unmasking" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)70%7133,076
Noun (singular)30%3202,518
                    Total100.00%10N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unmasking

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

kane unmasking

11

unmasking the jezebel spirit

8

unmasking

7

movie unmasking

5

binary masking unmasking

4

antigen unmasking

3

kane unmasking video

2

batgirl unmasking

2

mask photographic unmasking

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unmasking

Language Translations for "unmasking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

demaskim (disclosure, exposure, reveal). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

ζ'•下假青具 (unmask). (various references)

   

German

  

entlarvend (debunking). (various references)

   

Italian

  

smascherante. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ζ‘˜η™Ί (exposing, laying bare). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひとかわ, てきは぀ (exposing, laying bare). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

askingunmay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unmasking

Misspellings

"Unmasking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unamusing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Unmasking

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-k-m-n-n-s-u"

-1 letter: unmaking.

-2 letters: amusing, guanins, kinsman, makings, masking, snaking.

-3 letters: animus, asking, gamins, gaskin, guanin, gunman, kamsin, kiangs, making, musing, naming, nanism, nuking, numina, saning, umiaks, unakin, unmans, unmask.

-4 letters: agism, amins, ankus, gains, gamin, gaums, ginks, guans, gunks, kagus, kains, kiang, kinas, kings, magus, mains, manus, minas, minks, minus, munis, sagum, sigma, suing, sunna.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unmasking


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 6D 61 73 6B 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    --    .-    ...    -.-    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101101 01100001 01110011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#109 &#97 &#115 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 006D 0061 0073 006B 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558079678577758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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