oxygen mask
15
3.4
- noun
- /ˈɑksɪdʒən mæsk/
:
mascarilla de oxígeno
- The flight attendant instructed each passenger to wear an oxygen mask if the cabin pressure drops.
- your oxygen masks
Think of when you're on a plane and the oxygen mask may drop down.
- Think of when you're on a plane and the oxygen mask may drop down.
- The first is that you must put on your own oxygen mask first.
- He would just look at me and then kind of wave for me to come over and move his oxygen mask.
- Once you get your oxygen mask on, then you could say, OK, I'm safe.
- It's like when the flight attendant tells you to put your oxygen mask on first before you can help the other people next to you.
- I guess in that moment, though, that's when the gas, the the oxygen masks come out.
- How can they expect me to put in my oxygen mask before putting it to my kids?
- And I remember seeing a woman sitting there with a oxygen mask on in a wheelchair and she sat there like this doing this, the slot machine.
Examples
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Behind a curtain, May lies sleeping, IV tubing supplying nutrition, an oxygen mask supplying life.
Fiction book (1999) -
Clarissa was sedated, an oxygen mask fastened over her nose and mouth.
Fiction book (1995) -
Put your own oxygen mask on first.
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You can take off your oxygen masks now, if you like.
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Hold the oxygen mask firmly against your face.
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His hand trembles as he reaches for the oxygen mask and places it over his face.
Fiction book (2000) -
A second nurse, Jim, puts an oxygen mask over Rudy's face.
Fiction book (1995) -
Please return to your seats and securely fasten your oxygen masks coming from above.
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All right, So those oxygen masks, those are there in case the airplane loses pressure and you're breathing very low density air has hardly any oxygen in it.
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Tegan hastily set up the anesthetic machine and clamped the oxygen mask over Sweet Pea's nose.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
3
4.4
A device that helps a person breathe when the air is unsafe or not available
1
3.9
A machine that helps a person take air into their lungs when they cannot do it themselves
How Oxygenated
- Specialized
5
7.8
- Specialized
38
4.6
15
3.4
- Specialized
7
7.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'oxygen' (the gas needed for breathing) with 'mask' (a face covering); together they denote a face covering that supplies oxygen. This is a literal, compositional compound found cross-linguistically and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Oxygen mask comes from the simple image of a mask that gives oxygen to the nose and mouth. People first used them in planes and hospitals when the air was thin or a patient could not breathe, so today oxygen mask means a device you wear in an 'emergency' to 'help you breathe'.