CAMOUFLAGE


Meaning of CAMOUFLAGE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kæməflɑ:ʒ ]

( camouflages, camouflaging, camouflaged)

1.

Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.

They were dressed in camouflage and carried automatic rifles.

...a camouflage jacket.

N-UNCOUNT : also a N , oft N n

2.

If military buildings or vehicles are camouflaged , things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see them.

You won’t see them from the air. They’d be very well camouflaged...

VERB : usu passive , be V-ed

3.

If you camouflage something such as a feeling or a situation, you hide it or make it appear to be something different.

I think that there has been an attempt to camouflage what really happened.

= conceal

VERB : V n

Camouflage is also a noun.

The constant partygoing of her later years was a desperate camouflage for her grief.

N-UNCOUNT : also a N

4.

Camouflage is the way in which some animals are coloured and shaped so that they cannot easily be seen in their natural surroundings.

N-UNCOUNT : also a N

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне.