(p. p. & a.) from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
(p. p.) of Hide
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that gamma-(312-324) is hidden in fibrinogen and is exposed by the formation of fibrin.
(2) The unauthorised trades remained hidden for years in so-called umbrella accounts set up to store the funds.
(3) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(4) Such inquiries - set up under the Police Act, to look into a matter of serious public concern - are far from common and bring to light facts and opinions that are frequently hidden from view.
(5) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(6) Next month we’ll see him in Hidden Figures, the story of the African-American women who powered Nasa .
(7) This process is also formulated as a Hidden Markov Model problem and solved by applying the Expectation Maximization algorithm.
(8) Glomus tumors in children may be hidden by otitis media and appear more likely to be endocrine active.
(9) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
(10) "Every exchange you have with a witness will be analysed and considered in order to reveal a hidden agenda.
(11) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(12) A world of hidden wealth: why we are shining a light offshore Read more However, the Nahmad lawyers have also insisted that because the painting is not in New York and the IAC is based in Panama, the court case should not be allowed to proceed in the US.
(13) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(14) This paper describes a series of young patients hospitalized in a psychiatric facility because they presented symptoms indicative of a psychotic disorder when, in fact, the youngsters were dealing with the strain of keeping a family secret hidden.
(15) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
(16) Seeing the faces in my dark room or on my laptop screen brings back the hidden emotions and memories, often leaving me in tears and unable to carry on with my work.
(17) Photograph: Casey Orr for the Observer There is money here, but it’s hidden, a golden hare.
(18) Here the authors consider the possibility of discovery and evaluation of various hidden conditions of malnutrition in patients suffering of valvular heart disease--depending or not from the cardiopathy itself--and their complex pathogenesis, to correct at the end such condition and offer the patients an optimal prognosis with therapeutical procedures.
(19) It said Clinton's "cheap shots" had a hidden agenda to discredit China's engagement with Africa and "drive a wedge between China and Africa for the US selfish gain."
(20) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.
Privy
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
(a.) Secret; clandestine.
(a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
(a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
(n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
(n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) He or she is privy to all facets of care that are being administered to the patient.
(2) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
(3) He privately told the privy counsellors' committee of inquiry set up to review the events leading up to the invasion: "If I may be very frank and rather rude, you had to keep the ball in the air with the Argentines.
(4) I can therefore tell all members of this house that the cross-party charter will be on the agenda at a specially convened meeting of the privy council on 30 October.
(5) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
(6) The privy council’s antiquated oath, which is supposed to remain secret, also requires members to promise “not (to) know or understand of any manner of thing to be attempted, done, or spoken against Her Majesty’s person, honour, crown, or dignity royal”.
(7) They were challenged by Democratic senator Ron Wyden who, as a member of the committee, has for years been privy to classified briefings that he cannot discuss in public.
(8) Under the agreement, the royal charter must be granted by the Privy Council which meets on 8 May and then sealed by the Queen.
(9) Asked about the invitation, Cameron’s official spokesman would only say that the prime minister had been clear in public that all privy counsellors were entitled to security briefings if they asked for them.
(10) "So why are the government rushing it through to the privy council, which they control through the cabinet?
(11) "Creating some sort of privy power seems quite an interesting alternative to Leveson's recommendations for statue, which we oppose," said Cooper.
(12) The privy council only provides the flummery which camouflages their autocracy.
(13) Not being privy to the processing and presentation of SPZ Ag, we postulated that a different order of processing of the authentic, i.e., SPZ-associated CS protein vs soluble rCS protein might be responsible for the generation of different T cell specificities.
(14) Today, the privy council is headed by Nick Clegg and is made up of all cabinet ministers and a number of junior ministers.
(15) I believe in having all the information, as much of it as I possibly can, rather than making a decision or statement about whether I totally agree or disagree when I wasn't privy to the situation."
(16) He was also considering a new bill which would ensure the charter could not be changed by the Privy Council and could only be changed by a "super majority" – perhaps two thirds – vote in the Lords and the Commons.
(17) There is the scope for members of the national security council, privy councillors, to ask questions and the like to better understand the work that the agencies do.
(18) But Ashworth said the public deserved answers, "given that Mr Rock had a senior role at the heart of government and was privy to the most sensitive information".
(19) Speaking to journalists at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in London, Whittingdale said: "There is a real possibility that the Queen or privy council will refuse to recommend any royal charter when there is disagreement between the parties or disagreement between the government and industry.
(20) During the time of the Norman kings the privy council was the main body which governed Britain, fulfilling the kind of role that cabinet performs today.