secrete, release
(verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; âsecrete digestive juicesâ; ârelease a hormone into the blood streamâ
secrete
(verb) place out of sight; keep secret; âThe money was secreted from his childrenâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
secrete (not comparable)
(obsolete, rare) separated
secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)
(physiology, transitive, of organs, glands, etc.) To extract a substance from blood, sap, or similar to produce and emit waste for excretion or for the fulfilling of a physiological function.
(transitive, figurative) To exude or yield.
secrete (third-person singular simple present secretes, present participle secreting, simple past and past participle secreted)
(transitive) To conceal.
• The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are heteronymous with the corresponding forms of the similar verb secret, and this can create ambiguity when the word is encountered in print.
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Source: Wiktionary
Se*crete", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Secreting.] Etym: [L. secretus separated, secret, hidden, p. p. of secernere. See Secret, and cf. Discrete, Discreet.]
1. To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.
2. (Physiol.)
Definition: To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter.
Syn.
– To conceal; hide. See Conceal.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 January 2025
(adverb) in an uninformative manner; ââI canât tell you when the manager will arrive,â he said rather uninformativelyâ
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
