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adjective

concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.

verb

past participle of hide¹.

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Related forms

hid·den·ly, adverb

hid·den·ness, noun

half-hid·den, adjective

un·hid·den, adjective

well-hid·den, adjective

Synonyms
1. secret, veiled; occult.

Example Sentences

The hotel and airline industries, among others, cannot seem to bring themselves to be upfront about hidden fees.

First-year students pour concrete beams and use acoustic technology to scan them for hidden cracks.

Hidden in secret vaults for hundreds of years, it is thought to be worth many.

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The hotel and airline industries, among others, cannot seem to bring themselves to be upfront about hidden fees.

First-year students pour concrete beams and use acoustic technology to scan them for hidden cracks.

Hidden in secret vaults for hundreds of years, it is thought to be worth many.

Unable to interact with light, the hidden object is therefore invisible, a new study found.

Give your brain a break, and it will find hidden connections.

Bentley revealed the hidden structure of falling flakes.

Design a lampshade with a secret bloom that stays hidden till you switch on the light.

If you have a crystal that depolarizes light, you can determine the location of the rings around the hidden sun.

The threat to democracy today is not the size of government but rather the hidden form that so much of its growth has taken.

One thing that helps is calculating the hidden benefits.

Much of the action takes place in a hidden world within the hidden world:.

Video cameras attached to sea turtles and sharks reveal an underwater world hidden to humans.

No one talks but for the occasional murmur, tactfully hidden behind fan or hand.

The small kitchen had an awkward space for dining and was hidden from the home's main living areas by a closet wall.

Sounds hidden within the toadfish calls may communicate.

Paris is full of sumptuous mansions and secret gardens, hidden from outsiders by sober stone facades and closed coach doors.

Schnooks take the bait only to find out the hidden costs.

But cows, in particular, may have a hidden talent that far outweighs any meteorological skills.

They might be hidden under a rock, covered by bramble, at the top of a.

Augumented-reality apps uncover the hidden reality all around.

Maybe it was a hidden overlook, a fishing pond, a small-town hardware store or the tree house in your backyard.

Knowledge, because all are hidden among the trees along a rugged, winding road so steep it can make your ears pop.

Imagine a world hidden in the midst of our own, one in which you notice clues and symbols that elude you in your everyday life.

Hidden from view is a little-advertised patchwork of public gardens and courtyards that offer refuge from the urban rush.

She has raised awareness and sought solutions to the largely hidden but immense problems of elder abuse and neglect.

So the drug becomes a tool to help customers identify and avoid hidden fats in food.

Agents find a secret stash of marijuana hidden behind cargo in a tractor trailer.

Exposure to the chemicals in everyday objects poses a hidden health threat.

It is a holiday whose history was hidden for much of the last century.

Water skimming over the vase is captured by a reservoir hidden beneath stones.

The trick for locating the position of the hidden sun is to detect polarization, the orientation of light waves along their path.

Alcohol abuse by seniors: experts call it a hidden epidemic.

Terro can be hidden away from pets but products applied to surfaces to which pets have access can be dangerous.

Porsche drivers keep their cars tactfully hidden away.

Or a cache of discarded camping gear hidden in the snow.

Conway is adept at finding the theorems hidden in simple puzzles.

As the liquid levels replenish-perhaps between gulps-the plug once again stops the hidden reservoir.

But the house was on a nice lot in a good neighborhood, and there was hidden potential.

These days, the batteries come hidden away from the user, freed from.

Hidden because its symptoms often mimic or are masked by common physical and mental.

There may be hidden gems, there may be a lot of heartbreak.

For a start, there was space for a good chess player to be hidden inside.

Phobias, panic attacks and obsessions are caused by intrusions of the hidden drives into voluntary behavior.

Water runs through a pipe hidden beneath the channel's river rocks to a catchment pond at the far end.

Maybe by her breasts, which are as anatomically prominent as her ovulation is hidden.

But the biggest threats to the single market are those hidden from view.

Discover the hidden forces behind tomorrow's weather.

Tiny subconscious eye movements called microsaccades stave off blindness in all of us-and can even betray our hidden desires.

The researchers then trained nectar-eating bats to find a feeder hidden in artificial foliage.

Now a sliding barn door allows the kitchen to be hidden for formal dinner parties and serves as a place to hang holiday greeting.

The whole episode was hidden from academic faculty until it hit the press.

These hidden debts have forced the government to take extra measures to keep to its deficit promises.

Utilize real life diving equipment and techniques to help reveal clues along the way in this hidden object game.

The day-care centers that millions of parents entrust their children to harbor a hidden danger.

But being a cheap date might have a hidden benefit: a new study.

Leaves are narrow and willow-like, but its midseason white flowers sparse and almost hidden by new leaves are insignificant.

In my era, there was the ubiquitous comic book hidden in a boring text.

But there are crumbs of comfort hidden in these ones.

Part of the answer may be hidden in your family's past.

Clever experiments root out nooks and crannies in the brain that are hidden from your conscious awareness.

Hine scribbled details in a notebook hidden in his pocket.

It's tempting to sip coffee and be serenaded by birds hidden in the creekside forest.

Much of it hidden and some of it blatantly obvious eg.

The result is a fascinating study of how society is shaped by hidden pay-offs and punishments.

Find objects hidden among historical sites brought to life by beautiful.

Signs of impending social and political change may lie hidden in a sea of news reports.

In those solutions are hidden the mysteries and revelations of all things.

Along with the pleasure comes a hidden dividend: health benefits.

If the administrative costs weren't so hidden in the budget to actually do an apples-to-apples comparison of the programs.

Or there may be a hidden commercial explanation, perhaps involving wine-wary vodka-makers.

But they also spent time and treasure creating hidden underground mausoleums that no one was.

Debunking pirate myths reveals how hidden economic forces generate social order.

The heat and smoke, rising to ceiling height, had effectively hidden all exit signs.

Ignoble, utilitarian outbuildings hidden in backyard corners have given way to something so much better-and much more fun.

It pains me to tell some of my best students that the structure of employment in the academy has been hidden from them.

But the layers can be alternated to any thickness desired, and inconvenient antigens thus hidden from view.

Daydreaming and imposter thinking are hidden shades of our personalities.

When they arrive and find it's hidden away, they complain and write nasty letters.

Reddish pink bracts are held close to stems and are partially hidden by foliage add to my plant list.

Useless expenditures of collosal size are hidden in the military industrial complex.

Or to discover whether hidden traits might be driving a person's schizophrenia or dyslexia.

Features of the bag included separate pockets for clean and dirty laundry, a detachable pillow and a hidden pockets for storage.

The place is kind of hidden but once you step inside there are tons of pathways and walkways that are fun to walk around in.

Augumented-reality apps uncover the hidden reality all around you.

The metal barrel is hidden inside the guitar's warm wooden neck and can never fire another shot.

In mild-winter areas, flowers tend to form without stalks, so they are partly or completely hidden among the leaves.

Such brushes with the law have convinced him to hide his research: he now keeps his data hidden in several locations around town.

Suddenly my foot plunged into a crack hidden by drifted snow.

Teak boards mask plumbing, and slotted boards on the floor drain into a hidden shower pan.

One of the largest orb-weaving spiders had remained hidden from entomologists in plain sight.

There's a little joke hidden in this sleek, sophisticated garden.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to conceal from sight; prevent from being seen or discovered: Where did she hide her jewels?

to obstruct the view of; cover up: The sun was hidden by the clouds.

to conceal from knowledge or exposure; keep secret: to hide one's feelings.

verb (used without object)

to conceal oneself; lie concealed: He hid in the closet.

noun

British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.

Verb phrase

hide out, to go into or remain in hiding: After breaking out of jail, he hid out in a deserted farmhouse.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English hiden, Old English hȳdan; cognate with Old Frisian hūda, Greek keúthein to conceal

Related forms

hid·a·ble, adjective

hid·a·bil·i·ty, noun

hid·er, noun

Synonyms
1. screen, mask, cloak, veil, shroud, disguise. Hide, conceal, secrete mean to put out of sight or in a secret place. Hide is the general word: to hide one's money or purpose; A dog hides a bone. Conceal, somewhat more formal, is to cover from sight: A rock concealed them from view. Secrete means to put away carefully, in order to keep secret: The spy secreted the important papers. 3. disguise, dissemble, suppress.

Antonyms
1. reveal, display.

noun

the pelt or skin of one of the larger animals (cow, horse, buffalo, etc.), raw or dressed.

Informal.

the skin of a human being: Get out of here or I'll tan your hide!

safety or welfare: He's only worried about his own hide.

Australia and New Zealand Informal. impertinence; impudence.

verb (used with object)

Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.

to protect (a rope, as a boltrope of a sail) with a covering of leather.

Idiom

hide nor hair, a trace or evidence, as of something missing: They didn't find hide nor hair of the murder weapon. Also, hide or hair.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English hȳd; cognate with Dutch huid, Old Norse hūth, Danish, Swedish hud, Old High German hūt (German Haut), Latin cutis skin, cutis; see hide¹

Related forms

hide·less, adjective

Synonyms
1. See skin.

Link To hidden

Collins

World English Dictionary

hidden (ˈhɪd^ən)

—vb
1.	a past participle of hide

—*adj*
2.	concealed or obscured: a hidden cave; a hidden meaning

'hiddenly

—*adv*

'hiddenness

—n

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Word Origin & History

hide

"measure of land" (obsolete), O.E. hid, earlier higid, from hiw- "family" (cf. hiwan "household," hiwo "a husband, master of a household"), from PIE *keiwo- (cf. L. civis "citizen"). The notion was of "amount of land needed to feed one free family and dependents," usually 100 or 120 acres, but the amount

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could be as little as 60, depending on the quality of the land.

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Slang Dictionary

hide definition

n.
the skin. : I need to get some rays on my hide.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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