secrete

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vt. 隐秘, 隐藏, 隐匿, 分泌 [医] 分泌

发音

US /sɪˈkɹiːt/

词形变化

secretes 三单 secreting 现在分词 secreted 过去式 secreted 过去分词 more secrete 比较级 most secrete 最高级

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.

    分泌

    及物 医学
  2. 2.

    To exude or yield.

    比喻 及物

    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.

  3. 1.

    To conceal.

    及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Separated.

    废旧 罕用

    […] they ſuppoſing Two other Divine Hypoſtaſes Superiour thereunto, which were perfectly Secrete from Matter. […] This ſo containeth all things, as not being yet ſecrete and diſtinct; whereas in the Second they are diſcerned and diſtinguiſhed by Reaſon; that is, they are Actually diſtinguiſhed in their Ideas; whereas the Firſt is the Simple and Fecund Power of all things.

  2. 1.

    Archaic form of secret.

    古体

    a secrete breach, a secrete bed (Spenser)

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

release

上位词 6

hide conceal ooze exude exudate transude

下位词 1

water

词源

First directly attested in 1728; attested as the past-participial adjective secreted in 1707: from Latin sēcrētus, perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“to separate”); reinforced by back-formation from secretion; compare secern; cognate with French sécréter and the Spanish secretar.

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