Hiding

Hiding (also called abscondence or concealment) is obscuring something from view or rendering it inconspicuous.

Hiding may also refer to:

  • Hiding Out, a 1987 movie starring Jon Cryer
  • A Figure in Hiding, Volume 16 in the original Hardy Boys book series
  • In computer science:
    • Information hiding, in computer science, the hiding of design decisions in a computer program that are most likely to change
    • The Hiding (programming) of inherited methods in object-oriented programming
  • In British and New Zealand slang a "hiding" may refer to a sound beating. Come here Rangi, I am gonna give you such a hiding
  • Christoffer Hiding (born 1985), Swedish singer

Famous quotes containing the word hiding:

    When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
    Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)

    O hiding hair and dewy eyes,
    I am no more with life and death,
    My heart upon his warm heart lies,
    My breath is mixed into his breath.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)