英语词汇“secreting”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

secret /sēˈkrət/

adjective

Kept back from the knowledge of others

Guarded against discovery or observation

Unrevealed, unidentified

Hidden

Secluded

Recondite, occult

Preserving privacy

adverb

poetic

Secretly

noun

A fact, purpose, method, etc, that is kept undivulged

Participation in the knowledge of such a fact

A nostrum (obsolete)

Anything unrevealed or unknown

The fact of being secret, secret quality, secrecy

A secret or private place (obsolete)

A piece of armour hidden by clothes

The key or principle that explains or enables

An inaudible prayer, esp in the Mass

(in pl) external sex organs (obsolete)

ORIGIN: L sēcernere, sēcrētum, from sē- apart, and cernere to separate

secrecy /sēˈkrə-si/ noun

The state or fact of being secret

Concealment

Seclusion

Confidentiality

Power or habit of keeping secrets

The keeping of secrets

secretagogue /si-krētˈə-gog/ noun

(Gr agōgos leading) a substance which stimulates secretion

sēˈcretage noun

Treatment of furs with mercury before felting

secrete /si-krētˈ/ transitive verb

To hide
To take away (usu an object) secretly
To form and emit by means of bodily functions (biology or zoology)

secrēˈtion noun

The act of secreting
That which is secreted, eg the substance produced by a gland
A mass of mineral matter formed by inward growth in a cavity

secrēˈtional adjective

sēˈcretive (also /si-krēˈtiv/) adjective

Inclined to, fond of, secrecy
Very reticent
Indicative of secrecy

seˈcretively adverb

seˈcretiveness noun

sēˈcretly adverb

In secret
In concealment
(of prayers) inaudibly

sēˈcretness noun

secrēˈtor noun

secrēˈtory adjective

(of a gland, etc) secreting

secret agent noun

Someone employed in (the) secret service

secret police noun

A police force which operates in secret, usu dealing with matters of politics, national security, etc

Secret Service noun

A department of the US government service whose operations are covert, not disclosed
Its activities
(without caps) espionage

in on (or in) the secret

Admitted to, participating in, or having knowledge of the secret

in secret

With precautions against being known, found out, etc
In confidence, as a secret
Secretly

keep a secret

Not to divulge a secret

of secret (Shakespeare)

Of a secret character

open secret see under open

secret of (or secret de /sə-krā də/) Polichinelle (Fr equivalent of the character Punchinello)

Something that is common knowledge