secret
秘密,秘密的,隐秘,秘书
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Definitions
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- : done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
- : kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged: a secret password.
- : faithful or cautious in keeping confidential matters confidential; close-mouthed; reticent.
- : designed or working to escape notice, knowledge, or observation: a secret drawer; the secret police.
- : secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn: a secret hiding place.
- : beyond ordinary human understanding; esoteric.
- : bearing the classification secret.limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified.
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- : something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- : a mystery: the secrets of nature.
- : a reason or explanation not immediately or generally apparent.
- : a method, formula, plan, etc., known only to the initiated or the few: the secret of happiness; a trade secret.
- : 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.
- : Liturgy. a variable prayer in the Roman and other Latin liturgies, said inaudibly by the celebrant after the offertory and immediately before the preface.
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Examples
It could require a whole new breakthrough, or the secret ingredient may already be out there, waiting in a stack of old research papers.
Part of the beauty of the Tabard Inn is that everyone thinks it’s their little secret, their special spot.
According to Forbes, Americans are inundated with 4,000 to 10,000 every single day, and it’s no secret that they start to filter them out eventually.
Many of the alleged secrets were not revealed, but Mak is believed to have passed intelligence related to quieting submarine propulsion to avoid detection.
It’s no secret that our infrastructure needs a major overhaul.
In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.
The death toll, which experts believe has been significantly undercut by secret burials, stands at 7,905.
Henri Paul actually worked for the French Secret Service and he had €200,000 in his account when he only earned €30,000 a year.
Never mind the huge buildup of clandestine operatives and secret warriors since 9/11.
Slowly, slowly, dance classes may cease to be such secret and guilty pleasures in Iran.
The remarkable thing was that all the hurrying people she met seemed also each of them to be on a secret and mystic errand.
To Berthier, if to any one, Bonaparte entrusted his secret designs, for he knew that he could do so in safety.
He must be The saltest fish that swims the sea.And, oh!He has a secret woe!
Dr. Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, founded the secret society of the illuminati.
The obeying of several hints, of secret impulses, argues great wisdom.