Secrete
[sɪ'kriːt] or [sɪ'krit]
Definition
(verb.) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; 'secrete digestive juices'; 'release a hormone into the blood stream'.
(verb.) place out of sight; keep secret; 'The money was secreted from his children'.
Edited by Bonita--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.
(v. t.) To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Hide, conceal, shroud, bury.[2]. Separate (as from blood or sap).
Typist: Rosa
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hide, conceal
ANT:Expose, publish, manifest, exhibit, disclose
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Definition
v.t. to make secret: to hide: to conceal: to produce from the circulating fluids as the blood in animals the sap in vegetables.—adj. separate distinct.—n.pl. Sēcrē′ta the products of secretion.—n. Sēcrē′tion the act of secreting or separating from a circulating fluid: that which is so secreted.—adj. Sēcrē′tional.—n. Sē′cretist a dealer in secrets.—adjs. Sēcreti′tious produced by secretion; Sēcrē′tive tending to or causing secretion: given to secrecy or to keeping secrets.—adv. Sēcrē′tively.—ns. Sēcrē′tiveness a phrenological organ supposed to indicate a turn for secrecy and concealment; Sēcrē′tor a secreting organ.—adj. Sēcrē′tory performing the office of secretion.—Secreting glands true glands; Secreting organs certain specialised organs of plants.
Editor: Nita
Examples
- I design to secrete it in the wall of the chimney, where I have slowly and laboriously made a place of concealment for it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Why not secrete her there until I could return and fetch her away in safety and for ever from this awful place. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Why,' replied Mr. Trotter, 'my master and I, being in the confidence of the two servants, will be secreted in the kitchen at ten o'clock. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The diamonds were sewed into her habit, and secreted in my Lord's padding and boots. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They were taken and secreted. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His embarkation was clandestine; and if we may credit a tale of the Princess Anna, he passed the hostile sea closely secreted in a coffin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet when the first of the brothers died, the other, much to his surprise, found large sums of money which had been secreted even from him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The walls of this room were hung with transparent tapestries behind which I secreted myself without being apprehended. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- You suspect Miss Verinder of deceiving us all, by secreting the Diamond for some purpose of her own? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The Captain could not but own that the secreting of the money had a very ugly look. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In most flowers belonging to other orders the stigma secretes a little viscid matter. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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