亚洲网紅露点

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secret

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adjective

  1. done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others:

    secret negotiations.

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  2. kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged:

    a secret password.

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  3. faithful or cautious in keeping confidential matters confidential; close-mouthed; discreet.

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  4. designed or working to escape notice, knowledge, or observation: the secret police.

    a secret drawer;

    the secret police.

  5. secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn:

    a secret hiding place.

  6. beyond ordinary human understanding; esoteric.

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  7. (of information, a document, etc.)
    1. bearing the classification secret.
    2. limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified.


noun

  1. something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
  2. the secrets of nature.

  3. a reason or explanation not immediately or generally apparent.
  4. a method, formula, plan, etc., known only to the initiated or the few: a trade secret.

    the secret of happiness;

    a trade secret.

  5. a classification assigned to information, a document, etc., considered less vital to security than top-secret but more vital than confidential, and limiting its use to persons who have been cleared, as by various government agencies, as trustworthy to handle such material. Compare classification ( def 5 ).
  6. (initial capital letter) Liturgy. a variable prayer in the Roman and other Latin liturgies, said inaudibly by the celebrant after the offertory and immediately before the preface.

secret

/ 藞蝉颈藧办谤瑟迟 /

adjective

  1. kept hidden or separate from the knowledge of others cryptic
  2. known only to initiates

    a secret password

  3. hidden from general view or use

    a secret garden

  4. able or tending to keep things private or to oneself
  5. operating without the knowledge of outsiders

    a secret society

  6. outside the normal range of knowledge
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. something kept or to be kept hidden
  2. something unrevealed; mystery
  3. an underlying explanation, reason, etc, that is not apparent

    the secret of success

  4. a method, plan, etc, known only to initiates
  5. liturgy a variable prayer, part of the Mass, said by the celebrant after the offertory and before the preface
  6. in the secret
    among the people who know a secret
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞蝉别肠谤别迟濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蝉别路肠谤别迟路濒测 adverb
  • 蝉别路肠谤别迟路苍别蝉蝉 noun
  • 苍辞苍路蝉别路肠谤别迟 adjective noun
  • 辩耻补路蝉颈-蝉别路肠谤别迟 adjective
  • 蝉别尘路颈路蝉别路肠谤别迟 adjective
  • 蝉耻路辫别谤路蝉别路肠谤别迟 noun
  • 耻濒路迟谤补路蝉别路肠谤别迟 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of secret1

First recorded in 1350鈥1400; Middle English secrette, from Old French secret, from Latin 蝉脓肠谤脓迟耻蝉 鈥渉idden,鈥 originally past participle of 蝉脓肠别谤苍别谤别 鈥渢辞 secern
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of secret1

C14: via Old French from Latin 蝉脓肠谤脓迟耻蝉 concealed, from 蝉脓肠别谤苍别谤别 to sift; see secern
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. in secret, unknown to others; in private; secretly:

    A resistance movement was already being organized in secret.

More idioms and phrases containing secret

see in secret ; open secret .
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Example Sentences

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The bar was dark, intimate, tucked into Hollywood in a way that almost feels like a secret.

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England have made no secret of their desire for bowlers of high pace so Cook, an 'English style' seamer whose strengths lie in accuracy and movement, has had to wait for his chance.

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"We put them on this pedestal, and when you look closer, they're going to have cell phones, they're going to smoke, they have the same problems and vices and secrets as we do."

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What is the secret to a good martini so that I can go home at 10 a.m. in the morning and start stirring?

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She said the secret to her longevity was "never arguing with anyone, I listen and I do what I like".

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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