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secretness

/see-krit/US // ˈsi krɪt //UK // (ˈsiːkrɪt) //

隐秘性,秘密性,保密性,秘密

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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    • : secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn: a secret hiding place.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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.