CAMOUFLAGE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of camouflage in English

(Definition of camouflage from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of camouflage

camouflage
As previously noted, camouflaging self-presentations and preoccupation with peer acceptance create a situation in which youths invest little time or effor t in academic pursuits.
Occasionally, culturally camouflaged informers helped achieve significant results.
However, their dominance camouflages cultural differences in the perception of the historical landscape and local practices of historical identity.
We hypothesized that receipt of involved- suppor tive parenting would be negatively associated with camouflaging self-presentations and preoccupation with peer group acceptance.
First, conversation must not be so purely formal that the truth, if disagreeable, becomes camouflaged.
Thus, the fetishization of machines in the culture of technology, like the fetishization of the commodity, camouflages the necessary activity of skilled workers.
In addition, we explored an ancillary hypothesis that suppor tive sibling relationships would occasion more similarity in siblings' externalizing symptoms, internalizing symptoms, camouflaging self-presentations, and concern about peer acceptance.
In this study, we tested the hypothesis that camouflaging one's academic abilities or interests is a risk factor for the development of externalizing and internalizing symptoms.
After the experiments, stimulation ar tifacts were camouflaged in the broadband data by substituting ar tifact data samples by a linear interpolation between the adjacent time windows.
Existing research has not focused on the pathways through which camouflaging self-presentations and concern about peer acceptance may act as risk factors for the development of externalizing symptoms.
As with externalizing symptoms, we analyzed a model that included direct paths from older and younger siblings' camouflaging self-presentations and preoccupation with peer acceptance to their internalizing symptoms.
Oceans and vegetation on land have camouflaged warming by absorbing more than half of man-made emissions so far.
How many inter-union disagreements have been camouflaged by some other description?
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The debate is camouflaged with an enormous amount of political correctness.
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What is true of the ordinary citizen camouflaged in blue is equally true of the ordinary citizen camouflaged in khaki.
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Translations of camouflage

in Chinese (Traditional)
(軍事)掩護,隱蔽,偽裝, (動植物的)保護色,保護形狀, 掩飾…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(军事)掩护,隐蔽,伪装, (动植物的)保护色,保护形状, 掩饰…
in Spanish
camuflaje, trajes de camuflaje, camuflar…
in Portuguese
camuflagem, camuflar, camuflagem [feminine]…
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カモフラージュ, 迷彩(めいさい), 擬態(ぎたい)…
kamuflaj, gizleme, kamuflaj yapmak…
camouflage [masculine], mimétisme [masculine], se camoufler…
camuflatge, camuflar…
camouflage, camoufleren…
camouflage, camouflere…
kamouflage, kamouflera…
penyamaran, menyamarkan…
die Tarnung, tarnen…
kamuflasje [masculine], kamuflere, kamuflasje…
камуфляж, маскування, маскувати(ся)…
маскировка…
تَمويه, يُمَوّه…
maskování, (za)maskovat…
penyamaran, menyamarkan…
การอำพราง, อำพราง…
ngụy trang…
kamuflaż, kamuflować…
위장, 속임수를 쓰다, 위장막을 치다…
mimetizzazione, mimetizzare, mascheramento…
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