Definizione monolingua

secret

secret (third-person singular simple present secrets, present participle secretting (UK) or secreting (US), simple past and past participle secretted (UK) or secreted (US))

1. (transitive) To make or keep secret. [from late 16th c.]
   • 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 shed 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.

secret (plural secrets)

1. Knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. [from later 14th c.]

   Can you keep a secret? So can I.

secret (comparative more secret, superlative most secret)

1. Being or kept hidden. [from late 14th c.]

   We went down a secret passage.

Definizione dizionario secret

	segreto
	knowledge that is hidden
	being or kept hidden.
	Being or kept hidden from public perception.

riservato

arcano

confidenza

misterioso

mistero

nascosto

occulto

segreta

Altri significati:

private (information)

secret (of doing something)

(transitive) To make or keep secret. [from late 16th c.]

Knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. [from later 14th c.]

private or confidential matter

(in) secret

Being or kept hidden. [from late 14th c.]