What's the difference between divulgation and secret?

Divulgation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of divulging or publishing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) People are not willing to use online booking forms, not willing to divulge their details.
  • (2) It may be that these two methods divulge different information regarding the electrophysiologic state of the myocardium.
  • (3) As a responsible company, we would not divulge details of individual cases."
  • (4) Independent security expert Graham Cluley told the Guardian suggested that a hacker could have worked for years to gather information leading to the images, or could have hacked an address book with celebrity emails and then used phishing techniques, where users are tricked into divulging their password by fake emails.
  • (5) Ratner also asks whether the California-based company did anything to challenge the warrants and whether it has received any further data demands it has yet to divulge.
  • (6) The middle ground is to divulge what the law requires.” Lynch’s Justice Department currently is fighting Apple in a federal court over the company has to weaken an iPhone’s security controls to make it easier for investigators to guess the passcode, which Apple doesn’t have.
  • (7) Yahoo filed a suit in the Fisa court on 9 September, joining Microsoft, Google and others in an attempt to force the court to allow them to divulge more information and preserve their reputations.
  • (8) He has not published detailed clinical reports, divulged the details of his methods, published meaningful statistics, conducted a controlled trial, nor provided independent investigators with specimens of his treatment materials for analysis.
  • (9) Just hours after her admission, two Australian radio DJs impersonating the Queen and Prince of Wales duped hospital staff into divulging intimate medical details.
  • (10) He is under intense pressure to divulge the name of one of his sources at the criminal leak trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent who is another of the Espionage Act eight.
  • (11) She didn’t divulge names or any possible actors, however.
  • (12) It is acknowledged that new legal procedures will be required to ensure that those who attend such hearings do not divulge details until they are reportable.
  • (13) However, Samsung has been obliged to divulge details of US shipments for a wide range of allegedly infringing phones and tablets.
  • (14) The program's confidentiality prevented him from divulging any identifying information, Dr. Fluharty replied.
  • (15) Perhaps the cause really is proving harder to establish than whatever the black boxes have so far divulged.
  • (16) Francis said that if the police confirmed he would not be investigated for divulging official secrets, he would then talk to Hogan-Howe or Creedon to see if they could offer assurances that the investigation would be completed properly.
  • (17) Research firm CreditSights said it expected a benign market reaction to the European tests, given the amount of information divulged by individual banks: "Controversy remains over the treatment of sovereign risks, but private sector loan losses look to have been adequately factored in.
  • (18) Sussex police does not divulge dealings with individual members of the public but said that it investigated all complaints against the force.
  • (19) Another claimed: “Isis is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base.” Central Command said it viewed the hack as “purely an act of vandalism,” adding that no classified information divulged or operational networks had been affected.
  • (20) Evidence suggests nurses experience communication difficulties and frequently block patients from divulging their worries or concerns.

Secret


Definition:

  • (a.) Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.
  • (a.) Withdraw from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
  • (a.) Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.
  • (a.) Separate; distinct.
  • (a.) Something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed.
  • (a.) A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery.
  • (a.) The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs.
  • (v. t.) To keep secret.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the absence of atrial dilatation there was minimal stimulus for ANF secretion.
  • (2) We have previously shown that serotonin is present in secretory granules of frog adrenochromaffin cells; concurrently, we have demonstrated that serotonin is a potent stimulator of corticosterone and aldosterone secretion by adrenocortical cells.
  • (3) We have investigated a physiological role of endogenous insulin on exocrine pancreatic secretion stimulated by a liquid meal as well as exogenous secretin and cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8) in conscious rats.
  • (4) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
  • (5) The present study was therefore carried out to specify further which type of adrenoceptor is involved in lithium-induced hyperglycaemia and inhibition of insulin secretion.
  • (6) Significant increases in acid secretion were observed without changes in cyclic nucleotides.
  • (7) In summary, GABAergic tone did not effect basal acid secretion in anesthetized rats.
  • (8) The effects of glucagon-induced insulin secretion upon this lipid regulation are discussed that may resolve conflicting reports in the literature are resolved.
  • (9) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (10) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
  • (11) "They wanted to pass it almost like a secret negotiation," she said.
  • (12) The secretion of GH as measured by increased plasma level, in response to oral administration of 500 mg L-dopa or 30 min-infusion of arginine, was not modified by prior intravenous administration of 200 micrograms GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
  • (13) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
  • (14) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
  • (15) These results provide evidence that trait selection can change gonadotrophin receptor concentration and the dynamics of hormone secretion during the oestrous cycle of the mouse.
  • (16) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
  • (17) The sites of action for somatostatin and epinephrine to inhibit insulin secretion have been reported to be exclusively in the exocytotic pathway.
  • (18) Since intracellular Ca2+ seems to play a role in stimulus-secretion coupling and ion movements, several aspects of Ca2+ homeostasis have been investigated in CF.
  • (19) The Metoclopramide-induced secretion of prolactin and aldosterone was blunted in 6 patients pretreated with 200 mg ibopamine.
  • (20) On the basis of obtained data on the uniformity of chemical compounds of the secretion of glands belonging to different groups their common origin has been suggested.

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