ALL meanings of masquerading
mas·quer·ade
M m - noun masquerading a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes. 1
- noun masquerading a costume or disguise worn at such a gathering. 1
- noun masquerading false outward show; façade; pretense: a hypocrite's masquerade of virtue. 1
- noun masquerading activity, existence, etc., under false pretenses: a rich man's masquerade as a beggar. 1
- verb without object masquerading to go about under false pretenses or a false character; assume the character of; give oneself out to be: to masquerade as a former Russian count. 1
- verb without object masquerading to disguise oneself. 1
- verb without object masquerading to take part in a masquerade. 1
- noun masquerading Present participle of masquerade. 1
- noun Technical meaning of masquerading 1. (networking) "NAT" (Linux kernel name). 2. (messaging) Hiding the names of internal e-mail client and gateway machines from the outside world by rewriting the "From" address and other headers as the message leaves the organisation. This is good practise because external users do not need to know about internal changes in message routing. The external mail gateway needs to know how to route incoming replies back to the original sender. 1
- noun masquerading The act of one who masquerades. 0