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PRONUNCIATION OF LIFE MASK

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LIFE MASK

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Life mask is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LIFE MASK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

life mask

Death mask

A death mask is a wax or plaster cast made of a person’s face following death. Death masks may be mementos of the dead, or be used for creation of portraits. It is sometimes possible to identify portraits that have been painted from death masks, because of the characteristic slight distortions of the features caused by the weight of the plaster during the making of the mold. In other cultures a death mask may be a clay or another artifact placed on the face of the deceased before burial rites. The best known of these are the masks used by ancient Egyptians as part of the mummification process, such as Tutankhamun’s mask. In the tenth century in some European countries, it was common for death masks to be used as part of the effigy of the deceased, displayed at state funerals. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries they were also used to permanently record the features of unknown corpses for purposes of identification. This function was later replaced by photography. In the cases of people whose faces were damaged by their death, it was common to take casts of their hands.

Definition of life mask in the English dictionary

The definition of life mask in the dictionary is a cast taken from the face of a living person, usually using plaster of Paris.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LIFE MASK

life force
life form
Life Guards
life history
life imprisonment
life instinct
life insurance
life interest
life jacket
life lesson
life member
life membership
life partner
life peer
life peerage
life preserver
life president
life raft
life science
life sciences

WORDS THAT END LIKE LIFE MASK

antimask
damask
death mask
dismask
face mask
gas mask
iron mask
loo mask
mask
oxygen mask
photomask
shadow mask
stocking mask
unmask

Synonyms and antonyms of life mask in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «life mask» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LIFE MASK

Find out the translation of life mask to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of life mask from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «life mask» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

面具生活
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

máscara de la vida
570 millions of speakers

English

life mask
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जीवन मुखौटा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قناع الحياة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

жизнь маска
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

máscara de vida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জীবন মাস্ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

masque de la vie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Topeng nyawa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Leben Maske
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ライフマスク
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

삶 마스크
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Topeng urip
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mặt nạ cuộc sống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாழ்க்கை மாஸ்க்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जीवन मुखवटा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hayat maskesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

maschera vita
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

maska ​​życie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

життя маска
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

masca de viață
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μάσκα ζωής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lewe masker
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

liv mask
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

livet maske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of life mask

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LIFE MASK»

The term «life mask» is normally little used and occupies the 135.260 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LIFE MASK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about life mask

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIFE MASK»

Discover the use of life mask in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to life mask and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Life Mask
A love story.
Emma Donoghue, 2011
2
Life mask
Poetry by Scotland's leading lesbian poet.
Jackie Kay, 2005
3
Leonardo Da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities
His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities Janis Herbert. People often asked Verrocchio to make death masks, masks of the faces of people who had died, as keepsakes of their loved ones. This is a life mask, one that displays your inner self—your ...
Janis Herbert, 1998
4
The Life Mask; a Novel
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson, 2012
5
The Changing Image of Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking
It was the life mask that counted; it was that riveting plaster cast with its famous frown, replicated in hundreds of thousands of white or black copies and spread across the globe, that mattered. Why? First of all, because the life mask was exactly ...
Alessandra Comini, 2008
6
John Adams
Late in November, Adams submitted to one further ordeal for the sake of posterity , when an itinerant sculptor named John Henry Browere appeared at Quincy to make a life mask by a secret process of his own invention. It was known that the ...
David McCullough, 2008
7
The Lincoln Life Mask, Hands, Bust and Statuette
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
C. Hennecke Co, 2011
8
Facials of the Soul: A Journey 25 Years of Life-Mask Sculpture
Liz captures the breathing essence of life in her works.The book offers an intimate journey through the evolution of this unique art form with over sixty magnificent images and commentary by the artist.
Liz Learmont, 2011
9
The Lincoln Life-Mask and How It Was Made
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Leonard Wells Volk, 2010
10
Charles Darwin Slept Here: Tales of Human History at World's End
In 1825, the sculptor John Henri Isaac Browere created a life mask of the Captain , and Porter himself stated that “Nothing can be more accurate and expressive.” Both the engraving and the life mask display a distinctive tuft of hair at the top of ...
John Woram, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIFE MASK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term life mask is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Montana Album: Bypass takes fair land; boy is hero
The face and head, modeled after a life mask, combine 17 different movements. Sister Mary Trinitas, 57, professor of art and chairman of the ... «Great Falls Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Banish boredom and defeat Darth
The hotel has an onsite museum dedicated to the historic hero, featuring personal letters and an original life mask cast in Vienna in 1800. «Independent Online, Jul 15»
3
Marc Quinn: “You can't be Turner in the age of global warming”
In person Quinn looks little older than his chilled early-1990s incarnation, a cross between William Blake (a copy of whose life mask sits in his ... «New Statesman, Jul 15»
4
Lower Town artist celebrates decade in city by making faces
She calls it the "30 minute facial," because that's all the time it takes for the mud to harden and for the life mask to take on a life of its own. «Paducah Sun, Jul 15»
5
Blaine Gibson, Legendary Disney Sculptor, Dies at 97
He created hundreds of sculptures from which Audio-Animatronics figures were produced, first using a life mask of Abraham Lincoln to create a ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jul 15»
6
Tracing the mark left by the Marquis de Lafayette
There are multiple renderings of Lafayette: busts, a life mask, prints, and oil portraits. Washington commissioned one of the paintings, in 1779, ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
7
Bay Area Residents Most Well-Read in California
More stories from Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz Juneteenth Celebration · Travel to Cuba Seminar in Santa Cruz · Life Mask Workshop in Santa Cruz. «Patch.com, Jun 15»
8
How To Build A Cutting&Edge Digital Strategy From World&Class Art
... to resemble a document), a Lincoln life mask—bronze made from a mold of his face—and a standing Lincoln statue that's a smaller version of ... «Fast Company, Jun 15»
9
Sree Sreenivasan
... a Lincoln life mask—bronze made from a mold of his face—and a standing Lincoln statue that's a smaller version of one in Chicago's Lincoln ... «Fast Company, May 15»
10
British crime writer redefined the 'whodunnit' genre
Ruth Rendell, crime novelist and patron of the Handel House Museum, holds a life mask of George Frideric Handel, in the room where the ... «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, May 15»

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