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Secrete
secrete
(secretes, secreting, secreted) 1. If part of a plant, animal, or human secretes a liquid, it produces it. The sweat glands secrete water. VERB: V n 2. If you secrete something somewhere, you hide it there so that nobody will find it. (LITERARY) She secreted the gun in the kitchen cabinet. VERB: V n prep/adv
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I. transitive verb (~d; secreting) Etymology: back-formation from secretion Date: 1693 to form and give off (a secretion) II. transitive verb (~d; secreting) Etymology: alteration of obsolete secret, from 1secret Date: 1741 1. to deposit or conceal in a hiding place 2. to appropriate secretly ; abstract Synonyms: see hide ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. v.tr. Biol. (of a cell, organ, etc.) produce by secretion. Derivatives secretor n. secretory adj. Etymology: back-form. f. SECRETION 2. v.tr. conceal; put into hiding. Etymology: obs. secret (v.) f. SECRET ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. обыкн. физиол. выделять an aeroplane was in the act of secreting a black bomb —- от самолета отделилась черная бомба 2. книж. укрывать, прятать to secrete oneself —- прятаться to secrete stolen goods —- укрывать краденые товары he secreted himself in a cupboard —- он спрятался в шкафу 3. редк. утаивать, тайно присваивать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ v technical 1 if a part of an animal or plant secretes a substance, it produces it (Hormones are secreted by various glands.) (- see also excrete) 2 formal to hide something (McCready secreted the package inside his donkey-jacket.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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