| 单词 | covert |
| 释义 | covert (once / 963 pages) 1adjn 2adj 3n Covert means secret or hidden. Soldiers might take part in a covert mission to infiltrate an enemy camp — and you might take part in a covert mission to steal your brother's leftover Halloween candy. Covert is the opposite of overt, which means obvious, or in full view. Covert things are hidden, private, or stealthy. It comes from the Old French covert, or "covered." A covert bag of chips you've snuck into the movie theater might literally be covered, hidden under your coat, while a covert plan to throw your dad a surprise party is just a secret. WORD FAMILYcovert: covertly, covertness, coverts USAGE EXAMPLES“This covert action by the Nixon campaign,” he said, “laid the ground for the skulduggery of his presidency.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Special Forces in El Salvador in the 1980s and provided the identities of four U.S. covert intelligence officers working in Cuba. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) “But I’m not yet seeing such impacts on their covert activities.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1adj secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed covert actions by the CIA covert funding for the rebels Syn|Ant implicit, inexplicit implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something backstair, backstairs, furtivesecret and sly or sordid black(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, undergroundconducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods secretindulging only covertly collusive, connivingacting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end cloaked, disguised, maskedhaving its true character concealed with the intent of misleading secretcommunicated covertly behind-the-scenes, sub-rosa, under-the-tabledesigned and carried out secretly or confidentially subterranean, subterraneous, ulteriorlying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) under wrapskept secret undisclosed, unrevealednot made known concealedhidden on any grounds for any motive invisible, unseeableimpossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye open, overt open and observable; not secret or hidden explicit, expressedprecisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication bald, barefacedwith no effort to conceal naked, rawdevoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure undisguisedplain to see visibleobvious to the eye publicnot private; open to or concerning the people as a whole unconcealednot concealed or hidden 2n a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something 2the brush provided a covert for game Syn|Hypo|Hyper concealment, cover, screen blind a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) camouflagedevice or stratagem for concealment or deceit shojia translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper stalking-horsescreen consisting of a figure of a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game covering an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) adj (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband 3a woman covert Syn protected kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss n a flock of coots Hyper flock a group of birds |
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