Definizione monolingua

secrete

secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)

1. (physiology, transitive, of organs, glands, &c.) To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
   • 2008, Stephen J. McPhee, Maxine A. Papadakis, et al., Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, McGraw-Hill Medical, p. 1202

     Many tumors secrete two or more different hormones.

2. figurative uses
   • 1863: Charles Kingsley [aut.], Frances Elizabeth Kingsley [ed.], Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life (first published posthumously in 1877), page 156 (8^th Ed.: 1880)

     If you won’t believe my great new doctrine (which, by the bye, is as old as the Greeks), that souls secrete their bodies, as snails do shells, you will remain in outer darkness.

   • 1887: James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses, page 15 (1892 reprint)

     Let me not be misunderstood. I see as clearly as any man possibly can, and rate as highly, the value of wealth, and of hereditary wealth, as the security of refinement, the feeder of all those arts that ennoble and beautify life, and as making a country worth living in. Many an ancestral hall here in England has been a nursery of that culture which has been of example and benefit to all. Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

secrete (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, rare) separated
   • 1678: Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, book 1, chapter 4, pages 307^{1} and 582^{2}

     ^{1} […] they ?uppo?ing Two other Divine Hypo?a?es Superiour thereunto, which were perfec?tly Secrete from Matter.

     ^{2} This ?o containeth all things, as not being yet ?ecrete and di?inc?t?;?whereas in the Second they are di?cerned and di?ingui?hed by Rea?on?;?that is, they are Ac?tually di?ingui?hed in their Ideas?;?whereas the Fir? is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things.

s?cr?t? (comparative s?cr?tius, superlative s?cr?tissim?)

1. secretly, in secret, privately

Definizione dizionario secrete

celare

nascondere

occultare

secernere

Altri significati:

(physiology, transitive, of organs, glands, &c.) To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.

to conceal

Prevent from being seen or discovered.

'''figurative uses'''

(transitive) To conceal.

(obsolete, rare) separated

(transitive) To steal.

to steal

( '''transitive''' ) produce by secretion