Some articles on secret:
... In effect, it was created a "secret service" which had the power to arrest, to convict, to grant bail or parole, and to imprison or to deport ... He confided to Crosby that a secret enemy military company was being formed and introduced him to the group ... He managed to "escape" and, as directed, infiltrated another secret Tory unit ...
... Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, in their 2003 book Gold Warriors America's secret recovery of Yamashita's gold—report that secret repositories of loot from across Southeast Asia, were created by the Japanese ... also allege that Hirohito appointed his brother, Prince Chichibu, to head a secret organisation called Kin no yuri (Golden Lily) for this purpose ...
... A secret society is a club or organization whose activities and inner functioning are concealed from non-members ... The exact qualifications for labeling a group as a secret society are disputed, but definitions generally rely on the degree to which the organization insists on ... Anthropologically and historically, secret societies are deeply interlinked with the concept of the Mannerbund, the all-male "warrior-band" or "warrior-society" of pre-modern cultures (see H ...
... edition of the Blick newspaper) published a secret report produced by the Swiss government using data intercepted by Onyx ... Embassy in London, and described the existence of secret detention facilities ("black sites") run by the CIA in Eastern Europe ... military judiciary procedure for leakage of secret documents against the newspaper on 9 January 2006 ...
... Keep It Like a Secret is the fourth full-length album released by indie rock band Built to Spill, and their second for Warner Bros ... Keep It Like a Secret was released on February 2, 1999 ...
More definitions of "secret":
- (adj): Not openly made known.
Example: "A secret marriage"; "a secret bride"
Synonyms: unavowed
- (adj): Communicated covertly.
Example: "Their a secret signal was a wink"; "secret messages"
- (noun): Something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on).
Example: "The combination to the safe was a secret"; "he tried to keep his drinking a secret"
- (adj): Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding.
Example: "The secret learning of the ancients"
Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic
- (noun): Information known only to a special group.
Example: "The secret of Cajun cooking"
Synonyms: arcanum
- (adj): Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.
Example: "Secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"
Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, on the quiet, surreptitious, undercover, underground
- (adj): The next to highest level of official classification for documents.
- (adj): Not open or public; kept private or not revealed.
Example: "A secret formula"; "secret ingredients"; "secret talks"
- (adj): Indulging only covertly.
Synonyms: closet
- (noun): Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
Synonyms: mystery, enigma, closed book
- (adj): (of information) given in confidence or in secret.
Example: "Their secret communications"
Synonyms: closet, confidential
- (adj): Not expressed.
Example: "Secret (or private) thoughts"
Synonyms: private
Famous quotes containing the word secret:
“virtue lies therein,
A secret virtue bringing peace and mirth
By flight of sin.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay at all. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)