(v. t.) To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
(v. t.) To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.
(v. t.) To remove from danger; to shelter.
(v. i.) To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation.
(n.) An abode or dwelling.
(n.) A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres.
(n.) The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.
(n.) The human skin; -- so called in contempt.
(v. t.) To flog; to whip.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) In the US where laws over the use of cannabis or possession of class-A drugs can be wildly different between states, it also made it easier to hide from the law.
(3) Their only clues were two statements involving contrasting mental terms, with each statement referring to one of the possible hiding places.
(4) If he felt his actions were consistent with civil disobedience, then he should do what those who have taken issue with their own government do: challenge it, speak out, engage in a constructive act of protest, and – importantly – accept the consequences of his actions.” “He should come home to the United States, and be judged by a jury of his peers – not hide behind the cover of an authoritarian regime.
(5) But when people's jobs, homes and businesses are in jeopardy, it is not enough for the prime minister and the chancellor to use the eurozone crisis as a cloak to hide their lack of action.
(6) Pallo Jordan , the ANC's chief propagandist in exile during the apartheid era, made no effort to hide his emotions.
(7) What else is government hiding from us – and when will it kill us?
(8) TV's Jeremy Paxman didn't even bother hiding his disdain for the introduction of weather reports to Newsnight – "It's April.
(9) Governments should commit to including PPPs in national accounts and stop hiding their true cost.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Table corals provide an excellent hiding place for smaller fish.
(11) "There are definitely green men there today, they aren't hiding that they're from Crimea, from Russia," she said, referring to the unmarked soldiers Russia deployed to take control of Crimea last month, who are popularly known as "little green men".
(12) When multiple database systems are present, a flexible front end can provide sophisticated querying capabilities that bridge the systems, while hiding the complexities of the multiple systems from the user.
(13) He hadn't seen his children very much even before he went to prison because he was always busy running around, hiding underground.
(14) Inspection hides poor practice, and companies become more concerned with the regulator than with residents and relatives.
(15) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(16) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
(17) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
(18) In fact, he's a rampant homophobe, which usually suggests someone might actually be a teeny bit gay and trying to hide it – but he isn't, at all.
(19) After hiding in bushes, where she was bitten by a snake, she decided to return to her family, only to find them being lined up next to one of the newly dug pits that had appeared near Tutsi homes.
(20) Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was grilled for six hours at the Leveson inquiry and his evidence touched on phone-hacking, his meetings with the Murdochs, the role of his former special adviser Adam Smith and whether he really did hide behind a tree.
Uncover
Definition:
(v. t.) To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
(v. t.) To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
(v. t.) To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of; as, to uncover one's head; to uncover one's self.
(v. i.) To take off the hat or cap; to bare the head in token of respect.
(v. i.) To remove the covers from dishes, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nucleotide sequence analysis of cDNAs for asparagine synthetase (AS) of Pisum sativum has uncovered two distinct AS mRNAs (AS1 and AS2) encoding polypeptides that are highly homologous to the human AS enzyme.
(2) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(3) The report says this tactic has helped the west uncover at least one of Iran's secret nuclear sites and, according to official statements by the Iranians, has caused enrichment centrifuges to break.
(4) It is recommended that further research be directed toward uncovering the emotional and cognitive resources of teenage mothers rather than focusing on their more obvious weaknesses.
(5) Gas trapping and corneal edema were not observed in uncovered corneas or corneas covered with membrane lenses.
(6) The Scottish Affairs select committee that is investigating the blacklisting has uncovered documents showing that the police unit monitoring political activists met the blacklisting agency in 2008 to discuss sharing information.
(7) Experiments were designed to uncover potential deficits in events related to proliferation including cell surface protein and IL-2 receptor (IL-2R) expression, interleukin-2 (IL-2) production, and accessory cells.
(8) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
(9) Tangent-screen studies uncovered neurasthenic spiral fields superimposed on hysterical tubular contractions of both eyes.
(10) This invertebrate precipitin, Tridacnin, may be used as a marker for nearly two thirds of all asialo serum glycoproteins; A number of different cross-reactions with various other polysaccharides and galactans subdivides those neuraminidase-treated glycoproteins into several subgroups, indicating that the uncovered carbohydrate structures are not always completely identical.
(11) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(12) In order to uncover the role of G proteins in the integrative functioning and development of the nervous system, we have begun a multidisciplinary study of the G proteins present in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
(13) The presence of both P and D greatly augments initial cleavage of C3 with D fully uncovering the active site of B and P stabilizing that site.
(14) Again, two phenotypes were uncovered, and faster mobility was found in the red cells that had higher agglutinability.
(15) It was hard to understand why the girls would go back and why they couldn’t be saved.” She said she had been disturbed by what they had uncovered during research, what she called an “institutional neglect of a certain strata of society”.
(16) When the sample was separated into the three groups of organic etiology, psychogenic etiology with psychiatric diagnosis, and psychogenic etiology without psychiatric diagnosis, few significant differences in group profiles were uncovered.
(17) ECRF will continue to fight for the truth for Giulio Regeni and in uncovering the fate of Egyptians who fall victim to forced disappearances.” Abdullah’s release comes days after Egyptian investigators visited Rome to discuss developments in the Regeni case.
(18) It is likely that future investigations will uncover even more fundamental regulatory roles for heparin as well as for other polysaccharides in the normal function of growth factors, especially in the complex process of angiogenesis.
(19) A similar relation was uncovered in the literature for asthmatic patients at rest or during recovery from natural asthma.
(20) Raping a child is not the same as putting your hand on the leg of an adult woman, but what is this but a spectrum of systematic abuse being uncovered?