单词 | hiding |
释义 | hidingn.1 1. The action of hide v.1, literal and figurative; the condition of being hidden; concealment. (Often in in hiding, Sc. under hiding.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] hiding?c1225 heelinga1250 hidea1300 hillinga1300 coverturec1374 tapinage1390 concealing1421 hodymokec1450 occultation1453 concelising1492 blindnessa1616 concealmenta1616 shrouding1615 back-hood1621 absconsion1649 screening1651 obvelation1664 muffling1788 tucking1810 smokescreening1922 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] > concealed condition hiding?c1225 concealment1608 latency1615 delitescence1632 concealedness1635 latentness1660 abscondment1694 delitescencya1697 occultation1758 latence1794 caving1867 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 133 In þis word ester beoð hudunge. & hechnesse ifeiȝet togedere. c1290 Beket 1355 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 145 In huydinge ase þei it were. c1400 Rom. Rose 6712 Sothfastnesse wole none hidyngis. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Hab. iii. 4 There was the hiding of his power. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xxxix If our light be seene, it matters not for our hiding. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xxiv. 368 A gentleman who was ‘in hiding’ after the battle of Culloden. View more context for this quotation 1835 H. Miller Scenes & Legends N. Scotl. x. 173 When under hiding, word was brought him that she lay sick of a fever. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 612 The Popish priests, indeed, were in exile, in hiding, or in prison. 1890 W. Besant Demoniac ii. 27 A man..who has to go away into hiding every month or so. 2. Something that hides; a means of concealment; a hiding place. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] shadowc1200 blindfolding?c1225 coverturec1374 hiding1382 veilc1384 palliation?c1425 covert1574 panoply1576 hoodwink1577 mask1597 cover1600 screena1616 pretexture1618 purdah1621 subterfuge1621 tecture1624 coverlet1628 domino1836 face shield1842 concealment1847 protective colouring1873 camouflage1885 protective coloration1892 smokescreen1926 cover-up1927 scrim1942 marzipan1945 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] hidelsc975 hidela1300 bushc1330 hulkc1330 derna1340 tapissinga1340 coverta1375 hiding1382 loting-placea1398 cover14.. hiding placec1440 mewa1450 closetc1450 hole1483 cure1502 secret1530 shrouding place1571 ivy-bush1576 coney burrowa1586 hidlings1597 foxhole1606 shrouding corner1610 recess1611 subterfuge1616 latibule1623 latebra1626 blind1646 privacy1648 hide1649 retreat1697 rathole1770 hidey-hole1817 tod hole1846 hulster1880 hideout1885 cwtch1890 castle1898 lurk1906 stash1927 hideaway1930 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Heb. ix. 3 Aftir the veil, or hydyng, the secunde tabernacle. c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xlvii. 160 I..seche hydinges and corneres. 1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxxii. 38 Let them rise up..and be your protection [margin. an hiding for you] . View more context for this quotation 1859 G. W. Dasent tr. P.C. Asbjørnsen & J. Moe Pop. Tales from Norse 94 Then he rode off with it to the hiding, where he kept the other two. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > something concealed, a secret > hidden things, secrets hidinga1325 privacya1625 Apocrypha1839 a1325 Prose Psalter xliii. 23 [xliv. 21] He knewe þe hidynges of þe hert. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as hiding-hole. Also hiding place n. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cache,..a hiding hole, hidden corner. c1731 J. Swift Storm 69 Else some hiding hole he seeks. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xviii. 298 The more drawers and closets there were, the more hiding-holes could Dinah make. C2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > curtain or hanging cloth > [noun] hiding-clothc1275 c1275 Passion Our Lord 480 in Old Eng. Misc. 50 Þat huding~cloþ to-delde in þe temple a to. hiding power n. the capacity of paint or other colouring materials to obliterate certain surfaces. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > capacity to obliterate surfaces hiding power1951 1951 R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. (new ed.) 433 Hiding power, degree of opacity in a paint or pigment; ability to mask or conceal an underpainting. The term covering power is sometimes confused with it. 1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 79/1 Hiding power, the power of an opaque dye or other colouring material, when applied to hair, to cover or hide its existing colour. 1967 Gloss. Paper Ink Terms Letterpress Printing (B.S.I.) 11 Hiding power, the capacity of an ink to obliterate the previously printed ink film. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hidingn.2 slang or colloquial. 1. A flogging, thrashing, beating. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person threshingOE sousingc1580 rib-roast1595 basting1599 swingeing1603 cuffing1610 lamming1611 rib-roasting1613 mauling1621 pinking1637 drubbing1650 diverberation1651 verberation1661 trimming1675 rib1699 thrashing1720 dousing1721 fagging1746 bumping1751 dusting1799 clapperclawing1806 milling1806 hiding1809 punishment1811 doing1814 bethumping1831 mugging1846 jacketing1850 frailing1851 pasting1851 towelling1851 tanning1863 fum-fum1885 ribbing1894 paddywhack1898 tanking1905 beating-up1915 shellacking1931 sloshing1931 clobbering1948 twatting1963 duffing-up1967 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating > instance of threshingOE fustigation1428 breeching1520 trouncingc1550 bace1575 firking1594 belting1602 knave's grease1602 oil of baston1604 oil of birch1604 oil of hazel1604 oil of holly1604 oil of whip1604 lamb-pie1607 lamming1611 drubbing1650 vapulation1656 warming1681 floggation1688 working over1695 cullis1719 thrashing1720 halberd1756 licking1756 dressing1769 leathering1790 nointing1794 dusting1799 teasing1807 hiding1809 whopping1812 thrumming1823 toco1823 flaking1829 teaser1832 lathering1835 welting1840 pasting1851 towelling1851 whaling1852 hickory oil1855 swishing1859 slating1860 going-over1881 six of the best1912 belt beating1928 ass-kicking1943 stomping1958 seeing to1968 butt-kicking1970 1809 Sporting Mag. 34 95 As complete a hiding as the greatest glutton..would wish to take. 1817 W. Scott Search after Happiness xiii Some tumours..Gave indication of a recent hiding. 1822 T. Bewick Mem. 118 Giving him a severe beating, or, what was called, a ‘hideing’. 2. In colloquial phrase to be on a hiding to nothing, to be faced with a situation in which any outcome would be unfavourable or in which success is impossible, spec. (apparently originally in Horse Racing) that of being expected to win easily, so that one gains no credit from victory, and is disgraced by defeat. Cf. to prep. 19a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort on something futile to shoe the goose14.. to send (also carry, etc.) owls to Athens1548 to break, crush, a fly upon the wheel1606 to carry coals to Newcastlea1614 to bang (also run, bash, etc.) one's head against a brick wall1689 to preach to the converted1857 to be on a hiding to nothing1905 to chase one's tail1963 1905 A. M. Binstead Mop Fair xi. 193 They will, like the man who was on a hiding to nothing the first time Tom Sayers saw him, ‘take it lying down’. 1964 C. P. Snow Corridors of Power ii. 17 He wanted to get out of his present job as soon as he had cleaned it up a little—‘This is a hiding to nothing,’ he said simply—and back to the Treasury. 1975 Sunday Times 8 June 28/2 The Indian batsmen were on a hiding to nothing. They could not win. 1977 Times 29 Jan. 10/7 Derby know they are on a hiding to nothing at Fourth Division Colchester, who have a reputation as giant-killers. 1980 Spectator 8 Mar. 3/1 Lord Soames would have been on a hiding to nothing in trying to exercise gubernatorial authority and viceregal judgment. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019). hidingadj. That hides: see the verb. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] concealing1421 hiding1483 veiling?1591 palliative1611 shrouding1623 muffling1638 maskinga1652 screening?a1656 wimpling1747 secretive1830 secludinga1851 hideaway1876 1483 Cath. Angl. 185/2 Hydynge, occultans, abscondens. 1705 E. West Mem. (1865) 222 Not altogether a hiding God. 1874 J. P. Hopps Princ. Relig. (1878) xiii. 42 Freed from most of these hiding veils. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adverb] stillyc1000 dernlyc1175 dernea1200 privement?c1225 hidlingsa1250 in hidela1300 in scubardisa1300 stilla1300 hidel-likea1325 privyc1330 ywryȝeliche1340 in secre wysec1374 hidinglya1382 hidlya1382 in privy1384 closea1387 secrelyc1386 stalworthlya1400 covertlyc1400 secrec1405 in hidlings1422 secretly1447 secretementc1470 in secret1474 hugger-muggera1529 in hugger-mugger1529 secret1539 underboard1548 closely1552 darkly1559 in secret wise1563 hiddenly1580 tectly1587 underwater1600 concealedly1622 underground1632 occultly1641 in petto1647 under the rosea1704 subterraneously1791 suppressedly1825 underfoot1860 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xviii. 9 Hidendly [a1425 L.V. priueli] forsothe the riȝtwis childer of goode men sacrifieden. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Sam. xii. 12 Forsothe thou didist hidyngli. 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