Definition von a-secret im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- State secret
- Alternative form of state secret
- Victoria's Secret
- A retail marketer of women's clothing and beauty products, most recognizable as a marketer of bras and other lingerie, founded in San Francisco in 1977
She told him her Victoria’s Secret things were in the bottom drawer, to save him the trouble of searching for them.
- open secret
- Information that is not widely known, despite being freely available
- open secret
- A fact that is widely known, but not acknowledged openly
It was an open secret in the profession at that time that Mr. Field had very explicit documentary evidence that would have made Mr. Evarts very uncomfortable had the Bar Association thrown down the gauntlet.
- secret
- Knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden
Can you keep a secret? So can I.
- secret
- To make or keep secret
To prevent the elixir from reaching mankind and thereby upsetting the balance of the universe, two gods secret it away.
- secret
- Being or kept hidden
We went down a secret passage.
- secret Santa
- The person who bought a present for another, in the secret Santa exchange
I could tell Mary was my secret Santa.
- secret Santa
- A Christmas tradition where a group of people give anonymous gifts among the group, with each person only required to give one gift
- secret Santas
- plural form of secret Santa
- secret admirer
- One who admires another romantically but purposely remains anonymous
I received a Valentines card from my secret admirer.
- secret admirers
- plural form of secret admirer
- secret agent
- A member of an intelligence agency whose identity or affiliation is kept confidential
- secret agents
- plural form of secret agent
- secret ballot
- The voting system involving ballots available only at official polling places, prepared at public expense, containing the names of all candidates, and marked in secret at the polling places
- secret of Polichinelle
- A supposed secret known to everyone
British public life specializes in an elegant variation of the secret of Polichinelle. After a secret is disclosed it may still be treated as if it were a secret.
- secret police
- A police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law, usually in support of a totalitarian government to suppress political dissent
- secret service
- A governmental agency that deals with espionage and other acts of secrecy
- secret-sacred
- In Australian Aboriginal culture, restricted to initiated men, or to women; not public knowledge
While it is true that, in some areas, women possessed secret-sacred knowledge and rituals, nowhere was this corpus considered more important for social reproduction than that held by mature men, who claimed they exercised their responsibilities for the society as a whole.
- state secret
- Information which pertains to the affairs of a country and access to which is restricted by the government
Zimbabwean prosecutors have charged four men including top figures from President Robert Mugabe's party with selling state secrets to foreign agents.
- top secret
- Information classified at the highest level of sensitivity by a government, based on an assessment that it would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if disclosed
NSA's report on the Liberty incident was originally classified top secret.
- top secret
- Pertaining to any especially sensitive closed-room activities
Steve Jobs set up a top secret team to design the Macintosh.
- top secret
- A level of security clearance needed to access such information
- trade secret
- A formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information used by a business to obtain an advantage over competitors within the same industry or profession
- trade secret
- A formula, practice, device, idea, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not patented and which is used by the owner to obtain an advantage over competitor within the marketplace and is treated in a way that can reasonably be expected to prevent the public or competitors from learning about it except when there is improper access, eavesdropping, data acquisition or theft (where the country's law recognises theft) of that trade secret and where the implementation of the trade secret does not allow reverse engineering
- secret
- {a} concealed, unseen, private, faithful
- secret
- {v} to keep private
- secret
- {n} a thing unknown
- secret ballot
- A type of voting in which each person's vote is kept secret, but the amassed votes of various groups are revealed publicly
- secret combination
- In the Latter Day Saint movement, a secret combination is a secret society of "people bound together by oaths to carry out the evil purposes of the group." Secret combinations were first discussed in the Book of Mormon, published in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. The most notable example of a secret combination is the Gadianton robbers, a conspiracy throughout much of the Book of Mormon narrative. According to the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, Cain also entered a secret combination with Satan and became Master Mahan
- Victoria's Secret
- famous chain of stores for women's lingerie
- best-kept secret
- little known but excellent (of a restaurant, etc.)
- can keep a secret
- does not reveal secrets, can keep quiet
- closely guarded secret
- hidden secret, secret which is protected
- disclose a secret
- divulge a secret, reveal a secret
- disclosed his secret
- revealed his secret
- divulge a secret
- tell a secret
- divulged secret information
- revealed confidential information, disclosed secret facts, leaked secrets
- divulged the secret
- revealed the confidential information, disclosed the concealed information, told the secret, revealed the mystery
- hid his secret
- concealed his secret
- his secret thoughts
- ideas and dreams which he kept to himself, thoughts that he told to no one
- impart a secret
- tell a secret, reveal a secret
- in secret
- secretly, clandestinely, in private, without telling others
- in secret
- secretly: in secrecy; not openly; "met secretly to discuss the invasion plans"; "the children secretly went to the movies when they were supposed to be at the library"; "they arranged to meet in secret"
- keep a secret
- safeguard a secret, not tell anyone
- kept his secret to himself
- did not share his secret with anyone
- kept it a secret
- did not tell others, did not reveal
- made no secret of it
- did not bother to conceal it
- military secret
- classified information pertaining or belonging to the military
- open secret
- If you refer to something as an open secret, you mean that it is supposed to be a secret, but many people know about it. It's an open secret that the security service bugged telephones. Something supposedly secret but in fact generally known
- open secret
- something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known; "their love affair was an open secret
- open secret
- secret which has been revealed, uncovered secret
- reveal a secret
- tell a secret, disclose a secret
- revealed his secret
- told his secret, disclosed his secret
- revealed the secret
- told the secret, disclosed the secret
- secret
- Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded
- secret
- If you say that a particular way of doing things is the secret of achieving something, you mean that it is the best or only way to achieve it. The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing
- secret
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"
- secret
- {i} information that is confidential or classified; mystery, unexplained phenomenon; method or procedure that is known only by a select group of people
- secret
- {s} classified, confidential; clandestine, covert; hidden, latent
- secret
- If you do something in secret, you do it without anyone else knowing. Dan found out that I had been meeting my ex-boyfriend in secret
- secret
- The designation that shall be applied only to information or material the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe
- secret
- In SD-UX security, a password used to verify the authenticity of the caller's host SD-UX manages sets of hosts by restricting and changing the default secret on all controller and target hosts in the network See shared secrets file
- secret
- not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts"
- secret
- Encryption key used by RADIUS to send authentication information over a network
- secret
- If something is secret, it is known about by only a small number of people, and is not told or shown to anyone else. Soldiers have been training at a secret location The police have been trying to keep the documents secret. see also top secret + secretly se·cret·ly He wore a hidden microphone to secretly tape-record conversations
- secret
- Something you tell to one person at a time
- secret
- information known only to a special group; "the secret of Cajun cooking" something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on); "the combination to the safe was a secret"; "he tried to keep his drinking a secret" the next to highest level of official classification for documents not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts" communicated covertly; "their a secret signal was a wink"; "secret messages" not open or public; kept private or not revealed; "a secret formula"; "secret ingredients"; "secret talks
- secret
- Something's secrets are the things about it which have never been fully explained. We have an opportunity now to really unlock the secrets of the universe
- secret
- not open or public; kept private or not revealed; "a secret formula"; "secret ingredients"; "secret talks
- secret
- To secrete (to hide away)
- secret
- It is the encryption key used by RADIUS to send authentication information over a network
- secret
- A string well known to both client and server and used to validate and/or encrypt data, transmitted between them
- secret
- To keep secret
- secret
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients"
- secret
- (of information) given in confidence or in secret; "closet information"; "this arrangement must be kept confidential"; "their secret communications"
- secret
- The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs
- secret
- Information that must be known only to authorised users and/or the TSF in order to enforce a specific SFP
- secret
- designed to elude detection; "a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole"; "a secret passage"; "the secret compartment in the desk"
- secret
- Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive
- secret
- indulging only covertly; "a closet alcoholic"; "closet liberals"
- secret
- the next to highest level of official classification for documents not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts"
- secret
- not openly made known; "a secret marriage"; "a secret bride"
- secret
- something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on); "the combination to the safe was a secret"; "he tried to keep his drinking a secret"
- secret
- information known only to a special group; "the secret of Cajun cooking"
- secret
- hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden"
- secret
- Something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed
- secret
- A secret is a fact that is known by only a small number of people, and is not told to anyone else. I think he enjoyed keeping our love a secret
- secret
- communicated covertly; "their a secret signal was a wink"; "secret messages"
- secret
- If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly. His wife made no secret of her hatred for the formal occasions. Armenian Secret Army to Liberate Armenia secret police secret society
- secret
- If you say that someone can keep a secret, you mean that they can be trusted not to tell other people a secret that you have told them. Tom was utterly indiscreet, and could never keep a secret
- secret
- the next to highest level of official classification for documents
- secret
- Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow
- secret
- A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery
- secret
- Separate; distinct
- secret
- not open or public; kept private or not revealed; "a secret formula"; "secret ingredients"; "secret talks"
- secret
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance"
- secret affair
- secret love story, romance that people are unaware of
- secret agent
- A secret agent is a person who is employed by a government to find out the secrets of other governments. someone whose job is to find out and report on the military and political secrets of other countries = spy
- secret agent
- a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
- secret agent
- agent that people are unaware of
- secret ballot
- a way of voting in which people write their choices on a piece of paper in secret, or an act of voting in this way by secret ballot
- secret ballot
- voting by sealed envelope
- secret ballot
- a vote in which each person's choice is secret by the totaled votes are public
- secret clause
- classified paragraph, piece of text which is secret
- secret code
- secret number, undisclosed code, private number
- secret document
- classified document, document containing sensitive or secret information
- secret elections
- election by secret voting, election by secret ballot
- secret intelligence service
- the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas
- secret language
- mysterious language, language that is hidden or not well known
- secret partner
- A partner whose participation in a business partnership is hidden from the public
- secret partner
- {i} partner whose partnership and involvement in a business are kept secret
- secret police
- a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition)
- secret police
- detective unit, undercover unit
- secret police
- The secret police is a police force in some countries that works secretly and deals with political crimes committed against the government. A police force operating largely in secret and often using terror tactics to suppress dissent and political opposition. the secret police a police force controlled by a government, that secretly tries to defeat the political enemies of that government. Police established by national governments to maintain political and social control. Generally clandestine, secret police have operated independently of the civil police. Particularly notorious examples were the Nazi Gestapo, the Russian KGB, and the East German Stasi. Secret-police tactics include arrest, imprisonment, torture, and execution of political enemies and intimidation of potential opposition members
- secret service
- The secret service is the government department in the United States which protects the president. a) a British government organization that protects the country's military and political secrets, and obtains secrets about other countries b) a US government department that deals with special kinds of police work, especially protecting the President
- secret service
- The detective service of a government
- secret service
- A country's secret service is a secret government department whose job is to find out enemy secrets and to prevent its own government's secrets from being discovered
- secret service
- In the United States, in time of peace the bureau of secret service is under the treasury department, and in time of war it aids the war department in securing information concerning the movements of the enemy
- secret service
- governmental agency that handles investigating the military power of other countries; governmental institute dealing with spying; U.S. government agency for uncovering counterfeiters and guarding the president
- secret society
- a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers
- secret society
- clandestine group, secret organization
- secret society
- An organization, such as a lodge, that requires its members to conceal certain activities, such as its rites of initiation, from outsiders. Any of various oath-bound societies devoted to brotherhood (or sisterhood), moral discipline, and mutual assistance. Such societies usually conduct rituals of initiation to instruct new members in the rules of the group (see rite of passage). Greek and Roman mystery religions had their secular counterparts in clandestine social clubs, some of which served as platforms for political dissent. In West Africa secret societies such as Poro (for men) and Sande (for women) serve to translate slight advantages of wealth and prestige into political authority. In parts of New Guinea secret men's societies serve as repositories of tribal knowledge. Fraternal orders such as the Freemasons (see Freemasonry) may be considered secret societies, as may criminal groups such as the Mafia and the Chinese Triads and hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan
- secret treaty
- treaty between countries which is kept secret and is not revealed to other nations or observers that have an interest
- secret visit
- clandestine visit
- secret weapon
- weapon that is kept secret in order to create a surprise reaction; secret that someone keeps as a last resort to attain a request
- secret weapon
- Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about. Discipline was the new coach's secret weapon
- the secret died with him
- he perished without revealing his secret
- the secret is out
- the secret has been revealed, the secret is now exposed, the cat is out of the bag
- told him a secret
- revealed something private to him
- top secret
- highly confidential
- top secret
- Top secret information or activity is intended to be kept completely secret, for example in order to prevent a country's enemies from finding out about it. The top secret documents had to do with the most advanced military equipment
- top secret
- The designation that shall be applied only to information or material the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe
- top-secret
- top-secret documents or information must be kept completely secret
- top-secret
- the highest official level of classification of documents
- trade secret
- secret which is related to the creation of commercial products
- trade secret
- A trade secret is a piece of knowledge that you have, especially about how to do something, that you are not willing to tell other people. I'd rather not talk about it too much because I don't like giving trade secrets away. A secret formula, method, or device that gives one an advantage over competitors
- trade secret
- A trade secret is information that is known, used, and kept secret by a particular firm, for example about a method of production or a chemical process. The nature of the polymer is currently a trade secret
- trade secret
- a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition
- uncovered the secret of
- revealed the secret of, exposed
- united states secret service
- the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents
- unveil a secret
- expose a secret, reveal a secret
- worm out a secret
- obtain secret information by deception, cheat someone into revealing a secret
- yield a secret
- {f} reveal a secret, tell a secret, disclose a secret