His secret temples are hidden in the heart of every community.
Only two are known to exist, and these were worn as the insignia of their rank and position by the two old men in whose charge was placed the operation of the great engines which pump the artificial atmosphere to all parts of Mars from the huge atmosphere plant, the secret to whose mighty portals placed in my possession the ability to save from immediate extinction the life of a whole world.
«I know not Lethe nor Nepenthe,» remarked he; «but I have learned many new secrets in the wilderness, and here is one of them — a recipe that an Indian taught me, in requital of some lessons of my own, that were as old as Paracelsus.
Say that you choose to keep your own secrets, and I shall understand what you mean.»
«That when once taken, he shall be shut up in a fortress from which her secret shall never escape.»
Not alone was their work confined to unseen warfare with the secret agents of the Oligarchy.
First, the weeding out from our circles of the secret agents of the Oligarchy.
We mined the organization of the Iron Heel with our secret agents, and the Iron Heel countermined with its secret agents inside its own organization.
Excepting the secrets of our prison-house, he was ready enough to talk on subjects about which I was curious.
The doctor was not the sort of man to give his daughter, or any other woman, the slightest chance of surprising his secrets.
«Looks like a secret society got hold of them,» said Bert.
«Secret society,» he repeated, with his pipe between his teeth and the match flaring, in response to his words.
Butteridge, and the extraordinary terms he demanded for the secret of his machine.
She had not heard the martial music of the garrison, melting on the evening air, nor seen the strange banner, which fluttered over the heights that rose at no great distance from her father’s extensive grounds, without experiencing some of those secret impulses which are thought to distinguish the sex.
Stimulated no less by the unpropitious aspect of the skies, than by his secret uneasiness, he quickened his pace, making long and rapid strides in the direction of the cottage of Inesella.
тайный, секретный, потайной, скрытый, тайна, секрет, загадка
прилагательное ↓
- тайный, секретный, сохраняемый в тайне
- потайной, скрытый
secret door [staircase, drawer] — потайная дверь [лестница, -ой ящик (в столе)]
to press a secret spring of a writing-desk — нажать на скрытую пружину, открывающую письменный стол
- скрытный, замкнутый
secret in his habits — скрытный по характеру
secret as the grave — молчаливый; ≅ могила
- зашифрованный, условный
secret code — шифровальный код, тайнопись
secret language — воен. а) шифр; код; б) зашифрованный текст
secret padlock — замок с секретом /с шифром/
secret sign — условный знак
- таинственный, загадочный, непостижимый
the secret workings of nature — таинственные процессы, происходящие в природе
the secret workings of the human heart — скрытые /тайные/ движения души
- уединённый; удалённый
secret valley — затерянная долина
- затаённый
secret feeling — затаённое чувство
in my secret heart — в глубине души
the secret places of the heart — тайники души
- уст. непонятный, недоступный для понимания
secret parts — эвф. половые органы
существительное ↓
- секрет, тайна
- ключ, разгадка; тайная причина
the secret of his success — причина /секрет/ его успеха
- загадка, что-л. необъяснимое, скрытое
lover’s secrets — признания влюблённого
the secrets of nature — тайны природы
the secret of human motive — загадка поведения человека, тайна побудительных сил, объясняющих поступки человека
the secret of perpetual youth — тайна /секрет/ вечной молодости
наречие ↓
- в секрете, в тайне
to keep smth. secret — держать что-л. в секрете
the news must be kept secret — эти известия нельзя разглашать
Мои примеры
Словосочетания
one of nature’s greatest secrets — одна из величайших тайн природы
the outing of a secret agent — разоблачение тайного агента
give a secret to the Russians — выдать секрет русским
secret admirer — тайный поклонник
secret plan — тайный, секретный план
to guard / keep a secret — сохранять тайну
the secret of success — секрет успеха
duty to keep secret — обязательство хранить тайну
keep secret — держать в секрете
secret confession — тайное признание
deep secret — непостижимая тайна
give away a secret — выдать тайну
Примеры с переводом
The secret came out.
Секрет раскрылся.
I’ll find out your secret.
Я раскрою ваш секрет.
It’s no longer a secret.
Это уже не секрет.
Her secret was out.
Её тайна была раскрыта.
He left the secret untold.
Он не раскрыл этой тайны.
He blurted out the secret
Он выдал секрет.
She had a secret sorrow.
У неё было горе о котором она никому не рассказывала.
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Примеры, ожидающие перевода
Why is all this such a big secret?
They’re being very secret about it.
She tried to keep her marriage secret.
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Возможные однокоренные слова
secretary — секретарь, министр, руководитель организации
secretion — секреция, выделение, укрывание, сокрытие
secretive — скрытный, замкнутый
secretly — тайно, втайне, тайком, скрытно, незаметно для других
Формы слова
noun
ед. ч.(singular): secret
мн. ч.(plural): secrets
Варианты (v1)
Варианты (v2)
-
secret [ˈsiːkrɪt] сущ
-
секретм, тайнаж, загадкаж, таинствоср
(open secret, mystery, sacrament)
- dirty little secret – маленький грязный секрет
- commercial secret – коммерческая тайна
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secret [ˈsiːkrɪt] прил
-
тайный, секретный, таинственный, сокровенный, потаенный
(hidden, confidential, mysterious, innermost, undercover)
- secret ballot vote – тайное голосование
- secret police agent – агент тайной полиции
- secret revolutionary society – тайное революционное общество
- secret bank account – секретный банковский счет
- shared secret key – общий секретный ключ
- new secret weapon – новое секретное оружие
- secret military base – секретная военная база
- secret charm – таинственное очарование
- secret doctrine – сокровенное учение
- secret corners – потаенные уголки
-
потайной
(concealed)
- secret passage – потайной ход
-
скрытный
(secretive)
-
негласный
(private)
- secret surveillance – негласный надзор
-
закулисный
(backstage)
- secret game – закулисная игра
-
конспиративный
(conspiratorial)
- secret apartment – конспиративная квартира
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secret [ˈsiːkrɪt] прич
-
засекреченный
(classified)
-
скрытый
(hidden)
-
закрытый
(private)
-
затаенный
(concealed)
-
-
secret [ˈsiːkrɪt] нареч
-
тайно, секретно
(in secret, top secret)
-
в секрете
(in secret)
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noun | ||
секрет | secret, discharge | |
тайна | secret, mystery, secrecy, privacy, arcanum, privity | |
загадка | puzzle, riddle, enigma, conundrum, secret, crux | |
adjective | ||
секретный | secret, classified, confidential, undercover, subterranean, backroom | |
тайный | secret, covert, clandestine, arcane, undercover, privy | |
потайной | secret, sunk, flush | |
скрытый | hidden, latent, covert, occult, ulterior, secret | |
негласный | secret, private, backroom | |
конспиративный | secret | |
скрытный | secretive, cagey, reserved, reticent, secret, close | |
укромный | secluded, quiet, cozy, secret, snug, cosy | |
уединенный | secluded, solitary, lonely, private, remote, secret | |
явочный | recruiting, reporting, secret |
Синонимы (v1)
Синонимы (v2)
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secret сущ
- mystery · enigma · riddle · arcanum · dark secret · open secret
- covert · stealth
- confidential
- hidden
- mysterious · mystical
- clandestine · undercover
- private · privy · intimate · confidence · privacy
- esoteric
adjective
- confidential, top secret, classified, undisclosed, unknown, private, under wraps, hush-hush, sub rosa
- hidden, concealed, disguised, invisible
- clandestine, covert, undercover, underground, surreptitious, stealthy, furtive, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, closet, hush-hush
- cryptic, encoded, coded, mysterious, abstruse, recondite, arcane, esoteric, Kabbalistic
- secluded, private, concealed, hidden, unfrequented, out of the way, tucked away
- private
- secluded, privy
- unavowed
- hidden
- confidential
- mystical, mystic, occult, mysterious
- underground, hush-hush, hugger-mugger, clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, undercover, surreptitious
noun
- confidential matter, confidence, private affair, skeleton in the closet
- mystery, enigma, paradox, puzzle, conundrum, poser, riddle
- recipe, (magic) formula, blueprint, key, answer, solution
- arcanum
- closed book, enigma, mystery
Предложения со словом «secret»
However, something changed me a few years ago, when I came across a little secret that we have in Britain. |
Однако пару лет назад всё изменилось, когда я натолкнулась на маленький секрет британских учёных. |
I want to share that secret with you today. |
И я хочу поделиться с вами этим секретом. |
And finally, one of the reasons why things have gotten so out of control is because so much of what happens with surveillance — the technology, the enabling rules and the policies that are either there or not there to protect us — are secret or classified. |
И, наконец, одна из причин, почему всё вышло из — под контроля, это то, что вещи, связанные со слежкой — технологии, политика и правила, дающие дополнительные полномочия, служащие то ли нам, то ли против нас — засекречены или конфиденциальны. |
In 2011, she told me her teachers were being scored with a complex, secret algorithm called the value-added model. |
В 2011 году она рассказала, что её учителей оценивали с помощью сложного секретного алгоритма — «модели добавленной стоимости». |
I consider the common house the secret sauce of cohousing. |
Я считаю эту территорию секретным ингредиентом кохаузинга. |
It’s the secret sauce because it’s the place where the social interactions and community life begin, and from there, it radiates out through the rest of the community. |
Всё дело в ней, потому что это место, где начинается социальное взаимодействие и жизнь всей коммуны, и оттуда она распространяется на остальных участников коммуны. |
It turns out that the oracle of ancient Greece holds the secret key that shows us the path forward. |
Оказывается, у провидиц Древней Греции был секретный ключ, который укажет нам дорогу вперёд. |
That’s the secret of life. |
Это жизненный секрет. |
Even my secret pleasure of studying the Italian painters have been infected by politics. |
Даже на моё тайное увлечение итальянской живописью теперь влияет политика. |
I’ve overpowered his elite guard, burst into his secret bunker with my machine gun ready. |
Я победил его элитную охрану, ворвался к нему в секретный бункер с заряженным автоматом. |
What’s their secret? |
В чём их секрет? |
And it turned out the Hallowiches had made a secret settlement with the gas operators, and it was a take-it-or-leave-it settlement. |
И выяснилось, что Хэллоуичи заключили секретное соглашение с газовой компанией, носившее ультимативный характер. |
One of America’s best-kept secrets is how residential segregation is the secret source that creates racial inequality in the United States. |
Строго охраняемая тайна Америки — так это то, как сегрегация по жительству бесшумно и непреклонно порождает расовое неравенство в США. |
What was their secret? |
В чём же их секрет? |
The only thing that the film industry has to do is unleash its secret weapon, and that’s storytelling. |
Индустрия кино должна лишь обнажить своё секретное оружие, а именно — рассказывание историй. |
And I think I’m a little wrong when I say that life is a mystery, because I think that life is actually an open secret that has been beckoning our species for millennia to understand it. |
И мне кажется, я ошибаюсь, когда говорю, что жизнь — тайна, потому что жизнь на самом деле — это всем известная тайна, которая привлекает всё живое уже многие тысячелетия. |
But the truth is, the real secret is, we tell all women that their sexual pleasure doesn’t matter. |
Правда в том, что мы говорим всем женщинам, что их сексуальное удовольствие не имеет значения. |
I have one last secret for you. |
Я открою вам последний секрет. |
I didn’t tell you one dirty little secret. |
Я не рассказал вам неприятную маленькую тайну. |
And I didn’t want them to grow up with a secret. |
И я не хотела, чтобы они росли с секретом. |
The marriage researcher John Gottman says that the secret of a healthy relationship is not the great gesture or the lofty promise, it’s small moments of attachment. |
Исследователь брака Джон Готтман говорит, что секрет здоровых взаимоотношений не в широких жестах и щедрых обещаниях, а в объединяющих мелочах. |
A little-known secret in American history is that the only American institution created specifically for people of color is the American slave trade — and some would argue the prison system, but that’s another topic for another TED Talk. |
Один малоизвестный факт из американской истории: единственное, что было создано в Америке специально для цветных людей, — это институт работорговли, и некоторые готовы поспорить, что это тюрьмы, но это уже тема для другого выступления. |
The secret lies in what made Lisa see our initial demonstration as political. |
Секрет кроется в том, что заставило Лизу увидеть наш первый показ как политический. |
He made his followers want to aid his secret purpose. |
Он внушил своим приверженцам желание исполнить его тайную цель. |
Ancient catacombs that the Jews use as secret synagogues. |
Древние катакомбы, которые евреи использовали в качестве тайных синагог. |
You think she was planning to meet a secret lover? |
Вы думаете, что она планировала встретиться с тайным любовником? |
Dr. Kovacs has been developing a top-secret process |
Доктор Ковакс разрабатывал сверхсекретный процесс |
He knew all the caves and all the secret paths. |
Он знал там все пещеры и все тайные тропы. |
You don’t believe a secret society is murdering congressmen. |
Ты же не веришь, что тайное общество убивает конгрессменов. |
We stumbled across your little secret after the hostage takedown. |
Мы наткнулись на ваш небольшой секрет после захвата заложников. |
My grandfather always claimed I would inherit a secret fortune. |
Мой дедушка всегда говорил мне что я унаследую тайное состояние. |
My disagreement with Sisko over the Valerians is no secret. |
Мои разногласия с Сиско по поводу валерианцев не являются тайной. |
They have secret techniques based on the type of torture |
Они владеют тайными методами в зависимости от типов пыток. |
McCaskell and the Secret Service will pick you up then. |
Затем Маккаскелл вместе с агентами Секретной службы лично подберет вас. |
Look for the Spring premiere of Secret Life |
Ждите весенней премьеры сериала Втайне от родителей |
It was shot in secret by some of her followers. |
Оно было снято втайне кем — то из её последователей. |
I did in fact find some births that were quite close to the marriage dates, and that was a little unexpected, but my secret wish, I suppose, was to hope that Dick Shepherd, the highwayman, might have been somewhere in the family tree, but if he is, I haven’t got that far back, but I wouldn’t mind at all. |
Я на самом деле нашел некоторые даты рождения, которые были совсем близко к датам свадьбы, и это было немного неожиданно, но мое заветное желание, я полагаю, было бы надеяться, что Дик Шеперд, разбойник, возможно, находится где — то в родословной, и если это так, я не дошел еще так далеко, то я был бы совсем не против. |
It was tightly regulated and kept secret from the public. |
Это жестко регулировалось и держалось в секрете от общественности. |
Making deals with witches, holding secret meetings with werewolves. |
Заключение сделок с ведьмами, проведение секретных встреч с оборотнями. |
That you can pass on the secret of everlasting life? |
О том, что ты можешь передать секрет вечной жизни? |
Remember the lightbulb I took from that secret room? |
Помните лампочку, что я забрал из потайной комнаты? |
What secret requires a payment of four gold florins? |
За какой секрет требуется плата в 4 золотых флорина? |
Membership to the Sherlocks is a closely guarded secret. |
Членство в Шерлоках держится в строжайшем секрете. |
They’ll still be holding on to some terrible secret. |
Они все еще будут хранить какие — то жуткие тайны. |
What flaw in your character, what deep abiding secret? |
Какой порок твоего характера, какая глубоко зарытая тайна? |
I’m not keeping your secret for you anymore. |
Я не буду больше держать твой секрет в тайне. |
I will keep your secret and serve you as Warder. |
Я сохраню твой секрет и буду служить тебе Стражем. |
I never betrayed a secret she asked me to keep. |
Я никогда не выдавал тайны, которую она просила сохранить. |
It is His own secret that God will tell us! |
Теперь уже сам бог посвятит нас в тайны своего творения. |
Anti-Communist Masonic secret society founded during Cold War. |
Антикоммунистическое масонское тайное общество, основанное во время холодной войны. |
The Casey raid was a disaster for the secret police. |
Рейд на жилище Кейзи закончился для тайной полиции полнейшим крахом. |
I financed this entire operation out of secret bank accounts. |
Я финансировал всю эту операцию из секретных банковских счетов. |
The Altans somehow had knowledge of our secret Chicago facility. |
У Алтана имелись сведения о нашем секретном объекте в Чикаго. |
Louis Nelson’s fingerprints were found on the secret door. |
Отпечатки пальцев Луи Нельсона были обнаружены на потайной двери. |
Billy sells their secret recipe online for 500 bucks! |
Билли продал их секретный рецепт в сеть за 500 баксов! |
Would you ask Colonel Sanders for his secret recipe? |
А ты попросил у полковника Сэндерса рецепт его жареных цыплят? |
So bolin brings them to a secret mountaintop training facility |
Так что Болин отправляет их на секретный горный учебный центр! |
We formed secret societies that evolved into the clans. |
Мы создали тайные общества, которые развились в кланы. |
Victoria received letters and gifts from a secret admirer. |
Виктория тоже получала письма и подарки от тайного воздыхателя. |
I thought the location of the Alpha site was secret. |
Я думал, что местоположение базы Альфа было секретным. |
Adjective
Her secret wish is to become a senator.
The message was written in secret code.
I don’t know the secret password.
He was sent on a secret mission.
They engaged in secret negotiations with the enemy.
She tried to keep her marriage secret.
They’ve been very secret about their plans.
Noun
Don’t tell him about the party—it’s a secret.
I’m going to tell you a secret, but you have to promise not to tell anyone else.
You always look great. What’s your secret?
She shared her beauty secrets with the group.
The secret to a good sauce is the base.
the secrets of the universe
one of nature’s greatest secrets
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Recent Examples on the Web
The Washington Post technology columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler wrote last year about how these two companies grab for your secret tax return information.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
But there is no way to independently assess DOPL’s claim that nonmeritorious claims rarely move forward — because Utah is one of six states where panel rulings are kept secret from the public.
—Jessica Miller, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2023
For various agencies to provide material to each other, the official said, requires trust and assurances that certain sensitive information will be kept secret.
—Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
Characters details are being kept secret, but what is known does point the way.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023
The grand jury process is secret, and the indictment is generally not made public until it is filed in court or — in some cases — until the defendant makes their first court appearance.
—BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
Adding to the confusion, the limits themselves are secret.
—Ike Swetlitz, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
Read more: Alabama schools add security after Uvalde shooting, but most measures are secret.
—Savannah Tryens-fernandes | Stryens-fernandes@al.com, al, 31 Mar. 2023
The grand jury process is secret, and the indictment is generally not made public until it is filed in court or — in some cases — until the defendant makes their first court appearance.
—Perry Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
Without revealing her secret, Eva asks to be moved to the young man’s ward – the toughest and most violent in the prison.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
Precluding the walk down the aisle, the film works between timelines to reveal the secrets, hookups and friendship fractures plaguing Harper (Diggs) and his pals.
—Deanna Janes, Harper’s BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2023
Those recipes will remain family secrets, but looking through Lewis’s cookbooks, Thompson found dishes that echo her family’s food.
—Marvin Joseph, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
Some surmise that the Ukrainian armed forces’ new media policy restricting journalists’ access to military units is about keeping the tanks’ location a secret ahead of the counteroffensive.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
The movie follows Bertie, a reality show star who faces hardship when some damaging family secrets are found out by the public.
—oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2023
In this remake of a Danish drama of the same name, Williams plays Isabel, a woman who reluctantly travels to New York to secure funding for her orphanage in India and accidentally uncovers a surprising family secret in the process.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2023
Wrestling’s artifice was no real secret: the Brooklyn Daily Eagle lamented it as far back as 1877, and in 1939 a jaded renegade promoter spilled the beans to A. J. Liebling in this very magazine.
—Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn on Making Their Love Last Despite never marrying, Hawn and Russell are one of the longest-standing couples in Hollywood and the couple insists there’s no big secret to their lasting love.
—Tommy Mcardle, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
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adjective
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; discreet.
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.
(of information, a document, etc.)
- bearing the classification secret.
- limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified.
noun
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 (def. 5).
(initial capital letter)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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Idioms about secret
in secret, unknown to others; in private; secretly: A resistance movement was already being organized in secret.
Origin of secret
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English secrette, from Old French secret, from Latin sēcrētus “hidden,” originally past participle of sēcernere “to secern”
OTHER WORDS FROM secret
se·cret·ly, adverbse·cret·ness, nounnon·se·cret, adjective, nounqua·si-se·cret, adjective
sem·i·se·cret, adjectivesu·per·se·cret, nounul·tra·se·cret, adjective
Words nearby secret
second wind, Second World, Second World War, secos, secrecy, secret, secret admirer, secret agent, secretagog, secretagogue, secretaire
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Words related to secret
classified, covert, furtive, hush-hush, mysterious, obscure, private, secluded, undercover, underground, undisclosed, unknown, unpublished, confidential, restricted, secretive, surreptitious, code, key, mystery
How to use secret in a sentence
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It could require a whole new breakthrough, or the secret ingredient may already be out there, waiting in a stack of old research papers.
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Part of the beauty of the Tabard Inn is that everyone thinks it’s their little secret, their special spot.
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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.
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Many of the alleged secrets were not revealed, but Mak is believed to have passed intelligence related to quieting submarine propulsion to avoid detection.
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It’s no secret that our infrastructure needs a major overhaul.
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In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.
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The death toll, which experts believe has been significantly undercut by secret burials, stands at 7,905.
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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.
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Never mind the huge buildup of clandestine operatives and secret warriors since 9/11.
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Slowly, slowly, dance classes may cease to be such secret and guilty pleasures in Iran.
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The remarkable thing was that all the hurrying people she met seemed also each of them to be on a secret and mystic errand.
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To Berthier, if to any one, Bonaparte entrusted his secret designs, for he knew that he could do so in safety.
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He must be The saltest fish that swims the sea.And, oh!He has a secret woe!
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Dr. Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, founded the secret society of the illuminati.
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The obeying of several hints, of secret impulses, argues great wisdom.
British Dictionary definitions for secret
adjective
kept hidden or separate from the knowledge of othersRelated adjective: cryptic
known only to initiatesa secret password
hidden from general view or usea secret garden
able or tending to keep things private or to oneself
operating without the knowledge of outsidersa secret society
outside the normal range of knowledge
noun
something kept or to be kept hidden
something unrevealed; mystery
an underlying explanation, reason, etc, that is not apparentthe secret of success
a method, plan, etc, known only to initiates
liturgy a variable prayer, part of the Mass, said by the celebrant after the offertory and before the preface
in the secret among the people who know a secret
Derived forms of secret
secretly, adverb
Word Origin for secret
C14: via Old French from Latin sēcrētus concealed, from sēcernere to sift; see secern
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Other Idioms and Phrases with secret
see in secret; open secret.
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