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HIDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activity of keeping something secret
Synonyms:
concealing; concealment; hiding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hiding" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hiding"):
camouflage; disguise (the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance)
mask (activity that tries to conceal something)
cover; covering; masking; screening (the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it)
cover (a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent))
cover-up (concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public)
burial; burying (concealing something under the ground)
smoke screen; smokescreen (an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure)
stealing; stealth (avoiding detection by moving carefully)
money laundering (concealing the source of illegally gotten money)
Derivation:
hide (make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being hidden
Example:
he went into hiding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hiding" is a kind of...):
concealment; privacy; privateness; secrecy (the condition of being concealed or hidden)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb hide
Context examples:
Monster black holes sometimes lurk behind gas and dust, hiding from the gaze of most telescopes.
(Black Holes Hide in Our Cosmic Backyard, NASA)
"Does this suit you, Mr. Bhaer?" she asked, turning her back to him, and feeling deeply grateful for the chance of hiding her face.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Nor was his uninjured hand behind his back hiding something.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“No, no, no!” she cried, hiding her face.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A familiar ingredient has been hiding in plain sight on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)
Now, astronomers studying a globular cluster have found just such a black hole at its center, showing that intermediate-mass black holes could be hiding out in these compact agglomerations of stars.
(Elusive Middleweight Black Hole Found at Center of Giant Star Cluster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The peasant replied: “He says that the Devil is hiding outside there in the closet on the porch.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He remarked the pregnant silence of the forest. The bird life had flitted. The squirrels were in hiding.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Work by Dr Richard Randall, a co-author on the manuscript from the University of St Andrews, has shown that influenza viruses are good at hiding their RNA.
('Significant breakthrough' in understanding the deadly nature of pandemic influenza, University of Cambridge )
I was aware also that I should often lose all self-command, all capacity of hiding the harrowing sensations that would possess me during the progress of my unearthly occupation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
