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Secret (2007 film)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Not openly made known
"A secret marriage"
"A secret bride"
(2) The next to highest level of official classification for documents
(3) Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
"Mysterious symbols"
"The mystical style of Blake"
"Occult lore"
"The secret learning of the ancients"
(4) Not expressed
"Secret (or private) thoughts"
(5) Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
"Clandestine intelligence operations"
"Cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"
"Hole-and-corner intrigue"
"Secret missions"
"A secret agent"
"Secret sales of arms"
"Surreptitious mobilization of troops"
"An undercover investigation"
"Underground resistance"
(6) Indulging only covertly
"A secret alcoholic"
(7) Communicated covertly
"Their secret signal was a wink"
"Secret messages"
(8) (of information) given in confidence or in secret
"This arrangement must be kept confidential"
"Their secret communications"
(9) Hidden from general view or use
"A privy place to rest and think"
"A secluded romantic spot"
"A secret garden"
(10) Designed to elude detection
"A hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole"
"A secret passage"
"The secret compartment in the desk"
(11) Not open or public; kept private or not revealed
"A secret formula"
"Secret ingredients"
"Secret talks"
noun
(12) Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
"How it got out is a mystery"
"It remains one of nature's secrets"
(13) Information known only to a special group
"The secret of Cajun cooking"
(14) Something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
"The combination to the safe was a secret"
"He tried to keep his drinking a secret"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
- Can you keep a secret? So can I.
Adjective
- Being or kept hidden.
- We went down a secret passage.
Verb
- To make or keep secret.
- 1984, Peter Scott Lawrence, Around the mulberry tree, Firefly Books, p. 26
- [...] she would unfold the silk, press it with a smooth wooden block that she'd heated in the oven, and then once more secret it away.
- 1986, InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.
- Diskless workstations [...] make it difficult for individuals to copy information [...] onto a diskette and secret it away.
- 1994, Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara, Monks and magicians: religious biographies in Asia, Mosaic Press, p. 50
- To prevent the elixir from reaching mankind and thereby upsetting the balance of the universe, two gods secret it away.
- 1984, Peter Scott Lawrence, Around the mulberry tree, Firefly Books, p. 26
Usage notes
- All other dictionaries label this sense 'obsolete', but the citations above and on the citations page demonstrate recent usage.
- The present participle and past forms and are liable to confusion with the corresponding heteronymous forms of the similar verb .
Dictionary notes
- Most other dictionaries do not have an entry for the verb sense of ; all of those that do list it mark it as obsolete, seeing it as having been superseded by its derivation .