secretとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkɹɪt/
• ハイフネーション: se‧cret

名詞

secret (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 secrets)

1. (countable, uncountable) Knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. [from later 14th c.]

   Can you keep a secret? So can I.

   • Rambler

     To tell our secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery.

   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

   • 2014, Thomas Feller, Trustworthy Reconfigurable Systems

     The storage of cryptographic secrets is one of the paramount requirements in building trustworthy systems.

2. Something not understood or known.
   • Milton

     All secrets of the deep, all nature's works.

3. (archaic, in the plural) The genital organs.

同意語

• dern

派生語

形容詞

secret (comparative more secret, superlative most secret)

1. Being or kept hidden. [from late 14th c.]

   We went down a secret passage.

   • Bible, Deuteronomy xxix. 29

     The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[3]:

     The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.

2. (obsolete) Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 6–10:

     Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top

     Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire

     That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,

     In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth

     Rose out of Chaos:

   • Fenton

     secret in her sapphire cell

   • Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

     “He was a secret man, Alexander — a secret, silent man,” he continued.

3. (obsolete) Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive, separate, apart.
   • Shakespeare

     Secret Romans, that have spoke the word, / And will not palter.

4. (obsolete) Separate; distinct.
   • Cudworth

     They suppose two other divine hypostases superior thereunto, which were perfectly secret from matter.

別の表記

• secrette (廃れた用法)

同意語

• private
• dern
• confidential
• concealed

反意語

• overt

派生語

関連する語

• secrete
• secretion

動詞

secret (third-person singular simple present secrets, present participle (英国用法) secretting or (米国用法) secreting, simple past and past participle (英国用法) secretted or (米国用法) secreted)

1. (transitive) To make or keep secret. [from late 16th c.]
   • 1984, Peter Scott Lawrence, Around the mulberry tree, Firefly Books, p. 26

     [...] she would unfold the silk, press it with a smooth wooden block that she'd heated in the oven, and then once more secret it away.

   • 1986, InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.

     Diskless workstations [...] make it difficult for individuals to copy information [...] onto a diskette and secret it away.

   • 1994, Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara, Monks and magicians: religious biographies in Asia, Mosaic Press, p. 50

     To prevent the elixir from reaching mankind and thereby upsetting the balance of the universe, two gods secret it away.

2. (transitive) To hide secretly.

   He was so scared for his safety he secreted arms around the house.

使用する際の注意点

• All other dictionaries label this sense 'obsolete', but the citations above and on the citations page demonstrate recent usage as part of the idiom "secret [something] away".
• The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are liable to confusion with the corresponding heteronymous forms of the similar verb secrete.

引用

• For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:secret.

派生語

• secrete

参照

• “†ˈsecret, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]
  Tagged as obsolete. Notes: “In the inflected forms it is not easy to distinguish between ˈsecret and secrete v.”
• “Se"cret (?), v. t.” listed on page 1,301 of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
  Se"cret (?), v. t. To keep secret. [Obs.] Bacon.

アナグラム

• Cretes, certes, erects, resect, terces