hiddenadj.

Brit.

/ˈhɪdn/, U.S.

/ˈhɪd(ə)n/

Etymology: See hide v.¹

a. Concealed, secret, occult, etc.: see hide v.¹

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective]

dernc897

dighela1000

hid?c1225

stillc1275

stillyc1275

covertc1303

secrec1374

secret1399

secretivec1470

covered1484

dark1532

underhid1532

hiddena1547

concealed1558

abstruse1576

unshewing1598

mystical1600

of secreta1616

mystica1625

subterraneous1652

researched1653

hugger-mugger1692

hidlingsa1810

sub rosa1824

cachet1837

cloak and dagger1841

theftuous1881

q.t.1910

closet1966

down-low1991

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden

dighela1000

dernc1000

wriena1250

privyc1300

unshewedc1386

wrapped1398

quatc1425

tectc1440

blinda1522

coucheda1522

dark1532

lurkingc1540

velated1542

hiddena1547

inclusive1554

concealed1558

secret1559

occult1567

disguised1594

occulted1598

derned1600

shrouded1600

latent1605

abstrused1608

supposed1608

unshown1614

enshielda1616

retruse1623

dissembled1631

researched1636

recondite1649

delitescent1653

larved1654

tected1657

bedilt1660

bosomed1667

inhidden1674

underground1677

abditive1727

secreted1756

unextruded1808

unprotruded1812

undisplayed1822

larvated1832

dissimulated1838

latescent1852

squat1956

a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 23 That unneth may I fynde Some hydden wheare.

1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Cor. iv. 5 Who..wil lighten the hidden things of darkenes.

1625–6 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. 1139 We entered into a very fair nook, and in the hidnest corner of it.

1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 179 Discovering part of the hidden Treasure.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere v, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 30 A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. Introd. 267 Hidden meanings or remote allusions.

b. (the) hidden hand: secret or occult influence, esp. of a malignant character.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > the occult > [noun] > occult influence

(the) hidden hand1870

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > secret influence

(the) hidden hand1870

society > authority > power > influence > [noun] > mysterious or secret influence

spell1592

(the) hidden hand1932

1870 T. Taylor (title) The hidden hand.

1879 Scribner's Monthly July 326/2 Mr. Chaufrau played..the negro Wool in a dramatization of Mrs. Southworth's ‘Hidden Hand’.

1917 Tit-Bits 71 511 Hidden Hands.

1932 Ann. Reg. 1931 ii. 21 One Labour member attributed the appointment to the influence of a ‘hidden hand’ which was forcing the Labour Party to act against its principles.

1969 Daily Tel. 8 Mar. 20/3 Government action was being urgently considered against the ‘hidden hand type of pressure’ in public relations.

c. Grammar. hidden quantity (see quot. 1898).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > quantity > long quantity > quantity of vowel before two consonants

hidden quantity1898

1898 G. M. Lane Latin Gram. §2459 A vowel which stands before two consonants, or a double consonant, belonging to the same word, so that its natural quantity cannot be determined from the scansion of the word, is said to possess Hidden Quantity.

1965 W. S. Allen Vox Latina 65 A long vowel in such a position is sometimes said to have ‘hidden quantity’.

d. hidden reserve n. (a) Economics (see quot. 1965); (b) (in general or transferred use) something kept in reserve in a concealed form.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > assets

family jewels1819

asset1825

net asset1863

fixed asset1898

intangible1914

net current asset1919

hidden reserve1930

tangible assets1930

family silver1976

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > other types of profit

improvement?1449

mesne profitsa1558

intromissionc1650

emergencya1662

trading profit1717

building-rent1776

turn1796

sturt1850

redemption yield1921

hidden reserve1930

the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store > kept in reserve > in concealed form

hidden reserve1930

1930 Economist 30 Aug. 408/1 Many of the assets in the balance sheet contain substantial hidden reserves.

1935 Discovery Oct. 290/2 It was not until the ‘hidden reserve’ of radioactivity was discovered that it was possible for the prolonged youth of the Earth to be explained.

1965 J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 213/1 If the assets of a firm have been deliberately undervalued, perhaps because the value of these assets has increased, the difference between their value as shown in the firm's balance sheet and their real value provides the firm with a ‘hidden reserve’, of which most shareholders will be unaware.

e. hidden persuaders: a term used, originally by the U.S. writer Vance Packard (1914–96), to describe those involved in the organization and practice of advertising; hence hidden persuasion.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > [noun]

advertisement1600

advertising1717

puffery1731

sandwiching1877

promotion1914

eye1924

promo1955

hidden persuasion1957

metamessage1960

shout line1990

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > [noun] > advertiser

advertiser1712

pitchman1914

hidden persuaders1957

product champion1969

1957 V. Packard (title) The hidden persuaders.

1959 Daily Mail 2 Apr. 1/4 This is the diet with the hidden persuader and the built-in will-power.

1960 Guardian 28 Dec. 8/4 The hidden persuasions.

1962 Sunday Express 30 Dec. 17/1 At sales time the hidden persuasion works harder—‘15½ guineas slashed to £5’.

2. Music. Applied to the consecutive fifths or octaves suggested between two parts when they move in similar motion to the interval of a fifth or octave.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [adjective] > movement of parts > specific

unformal1597

transgressive1761

consecutive1819

hidden1869

tonal1869

ostinato1876

direct1880

sequential?1890

1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint ii. 8 These imaginary octaves or fifths are called ‘hidden consecutives’.

1889 E. Prout Harmony iv. §102 If two parts go by similar motion to octaves or perfect fifths, such progressions are called ‘hidden’ octaves or fifths... These octaves and fifths, being passed over, instead of sounded, are said to be hidden.

Compounds

As hidden-veined, hidden-working adjs.

ΚΠ

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 150 In succulent plants..the leaves are..termed hidden-veined.

Draft additions June 2003

hidden agenda n. a concealed or unexpressed intent behind the ostensible purpose of an action, statement, etc.; an ulterior aim or motive (cf. agenda n.); (also, occasionally) = hidden curriculum n. at Additions (see quot. 1971).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > secret

by-errand1673

by-aim1702

by-view1706

by-purpose1826

hidden agenda1955

1955 Jrnl. Business 28 13/1 Most groups, in other words, have ‘hidden agendas’. These are the inter-personal feeling, the individual strivings for power or for approval, which exist but are not expressed.

1971 Psychol. Abstr. Feb. 317/2 Recent studies have shown that the ‘hidden agenda’ of schooling educates students' attitudes, values, and perceptions, and that personal/psychological education is taking place.

1987 M. Atwood Bluebeard's Egg 40 Sex was the hidden agenda at these discussions.

2001 N.Y. Times 13 May i. 20/4 There is no deviousness or hidden agenda... What it is, is what it is.

Draft additions June 2003

hidden curriculum n. Education those aspects of a child's education (e.g. speech patterns, codes of behaviour, social attitudes, etc.) which are not part of the formal school curriculum, but are instead acquired as part of his or her experience within the social contexts of school and home.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > [noun] > types of learning

opsimathya1656

latent learning1929

hypnopaedia1932

naming of (the) parts1946

sleep-learning1953

sitting next to (also by, with) Nelly1963

hidden curriculum1964

1958 W. C. Kvaraceus in P. M. Halverson Frontiers of Secondary Educ. III. 19/1 This subliminal curriculum, like the hidden but major portion of the iceberg, is in a sense a natural extension of the visible and formal curriculum of the school.]

1964 W. C. Kvaraceus in Negro Self-concept iii. 17 But now let us look into the ‘hidden curriculum’ of the school.

1964 F. L. Strodtbeck in M. D. Fantini & G. Weinstein Disadvantaged (1968) ii. 106 The hidden curriculum of the middle class home.

1977 Times Educ. Suppl. 21 Oct. 35/1 We also need to consider the ‘hidden curriculum’..which includes such important learning as understanding alternative orientations to the ‘official’ knowledge of the school, how to satisfy the teacher's requirements, how to respond to the knowledge or normative content in ways that are acceptable to one's peers as well as to one's teachers.

1994 T. May Victorian Schoolroom 27 (caption) Although the curriculum for boys and girls was largely the same, there were many ways in which the ‘hidden curriculum’ discriminated against girls, as this table shows.

Draft additions June 2003

hidden economy n. (a) gen. an economy or saving that is not readily apparent (rare); (b) Politics and Economics (now the usual sense), the economic sector consisting of transactions that are (illegally) not declared for tax purposes, and which are therefore not taken into account in official statistics; = underground economy n. at underground adj. 4e.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > specific sector of the economy

rural economics1764

supply side1873

agriculturism1885

business sector1918

black economy1929

hidden economy1930

underground economy1978

old economy1983

1930 Times 10 Mar. 14/6 An increase of £35,000 for the Auxiliary and Reserve Forces is a hidden economy, for it shows that this non-regular portion of the Service is steadily growing and thus easing the burden on the more expensive regular units.

1972 N.Y. Times 3 Dec. 16/1 (headline) A hidden economy is booming in Italy.

1990 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 1 Apr. c5 Manufacturers may take hidden economies in the way they join the dozens of tiny slats together, but visually, it's impossible to tell most knockoffs from the Cassina copies.

1996 Guardian 30 Mar. 40/1 Prostitution is where the hidden economy (black is now politically incorrect) glamorously blends into organised crime, hidden from the gaze of the taxman.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	hidden
释义	hiddenadj. Brit. /ˈhɪdn/, U.S. /ˈhɪd(ə)n/ Etymology: See hide v.¹ 1. a. Concealed, secret, occult, etc.: see hide v.¹ ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] dernc897 dighela1000 hid?c1225 stillc1275 stillyc1275 covertc1303 secrec1374 secret1399 secretivec1470 covered1484 dark1532 underhid1532 hiddena1547 concealed1558 abstruse1576 unshewing1598 mystical1600 of secreta1616 mystica1625 subterraneous1652 researched1653 hugger-mugger1692 hidlingsa1810 sub rosa1824 cachet1837 cloak and dagger1841 theftuous1881 q.t.1910 closet1966 down-low1991 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden dighela1000 dernc1000 wriena1250 privyc1300 unshewedc1386 wrapped1398 quatc1425 tectc1440 blinda1522 coucheda1522 dark1532 lurkingc1540 velated1542 hiddena1547 inclusive1554 concealed1558 secret1559 occult1567 disguised1594 occulted1598 derned1600 shrouded1600 latent1605 abstrused1608 supposed1608 unshown1614 enshielda1616 retruse1623 dissembled1631 researched1636 recondite1649 delitescent1653 larved1654 tected1657 bedilt1660 bosomed1667 inhidden1674 underground1677 abditive1727 secreted1756 unextruded1808 unprotruded1812 undisplayed1822 larvated1832 dissimulated1838 latescent1852 squat1956 a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 23 That unneth may I fynde Some hydden wheare. 1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Cor. iv. 5 Who..wil lighten the hidden things of darkenes. 1625–6 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. 1139 We entered into a very fair nook, and in the hidnest corner of it. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 179 Discovering part of the hidden Treasure. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere v, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 30 A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. Introd. 267 Hidden meanings or remote allusions. b. (the) hidden hand: secret or occult influence, esp. of a malignant character. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [noun] > occult influence (the) hidden hand1870 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > secret influence (the) hidden hand1870 society > authority > power > influence > [noun] > mysterious or secret influence spell1592 (the) hidden hand1932 1870 T. Taylor (title) The hidden hand. 1879 Scribner's Monthly July 326/2 Mr. Chaufrau played..the negro Wool in a dramatization of Mrs. Southworth's ‘Hidden Hand’. 1917 Tit-Bits 71 511 Hidden Hands. 1932 Ann. Reg. 1931 ii. 21 One Labour member attributed the appointment to the influence of a ‘hidden hand’ which was forcing the Labour Party to act against its principles. 1969 Daily Tel. 8 Mar. 20/3 Government action was being urgently considered against the ‘hidden hand type of pressure’ in public relations. c. Grammar. hidden quantity (see quot. 1898). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > quantity > long quantity > quantity of vowel before two consonants hidden quantity1898 1898 G. M. Lane Latin Gram. §2459 A vowel which stands before two consonants, or a double consonant, belonging to the same word, so that its natural quantity cannot be determined from the scansion of the word, is said to possess Hidden Quantity. 1965 W. S. Allen Vox Latina 65 A long vowel in such a position is sometimes said to have ‘hidden quantity’. d. hidden reserve n. (a) Economics (see quot. 1965); (b) (in general or transferred use) something kept in reserve in a concealed form. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > assets family jewels1819 asset1825 net asset1863 fixed asset1898 intangible1914 net current asset1919 hidden reserve1930 tangible assets1930 family silver1976 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > other types of profit improvement?1449 mesne profitsa1558 intromissionc1650 emergencya1662 trading profit1717 building-rent1776 turn1796 sturt1850 redemption yield1921 hidden reserve1930 the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store > kept in reserve > in concealed form hidden reserve1930 1930 Economist 30 Aug. 408/1 Many of the assets in the balance sheet contain substantial hidden reserves. 1935 Discovery Oct. 290/2 It was not until the ‘hidden reserve’ of radioactivity was discovered that it was possible for the prolonged youth of the Earth to be explained. 1965 J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 213/1 If the assets of a firm have been deliberately undervalued, perhaps because the value of these assets has increased, the difference between their value as shown in the firm's balance sheet and their real value provides the firm with a ‘hidden reserve’, of which most shareholders will be unaware. e. hidden persuaders: a term used, originally by the U.S. writer Vance Packard (1914–96), to describe those involved in the organization and practice of advertising; hence hidden persuasion. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > [noun] advertisement1600 advertising1717 puffery1731 sandwiching1877 promotion1914 eye1924 promo1955 hidden persuasion1957 metamessage1960 shout line1990 society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > [noun] > advertiser advertiser1712 pitchman1914 hidden persuaders1957 product champion1969 1957 V. Packard (title) The hidden persuaders. 1959 Daily Mail 2 Apr. 1/4 This is the diet with the hidden persuader and the built-in will-power. 1960 Guardian 28 Dec. 8/4 The hidden persuasions. 1962 Sunday Express 30 Dec. 17/1 At sales time the hidden persuasion works harder—‘15½ guineas slashed to £5’. 2. Music. Applied to the consecutive fifths or octaves suggested between two parts when they move in similar motion to the interval of a fifth or octave. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [adjective] > movement of parts > specific unformal1597 transgressive1761 consecutive1819 hidden1869 tonal1869 ostinato1876 direct1880 sequential?1890 1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint ii. 8 These imaginary octaves or fifths are called ‘hidden consecutives’. 1889 E. Prout Harmony iv. §102 If two parts go by similar motion to octaves or perfect fifths, such progressions are called ‘hidden’ octaves or fifths... These octaves and fifths, being passed over, instead of sounded, are said to be hidden. Compounds As hidden-veined, hidden-working adjs. ΚΠ 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 150 In succulent plants..the leaves are..termed hidden-veined. Draft additions June 2003 hidden agenda n. a concealed or unexpressed intent behind the ostensible purpose of an action, statement, etc.; an ulterior aim or motive (cf. agenda n.); (also, occasionally) = hidden curriculum n. at Additions (see quot. 1971). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > secret by-errand1673 by-aim1702 by-view1706 by-purpose1826 hidden agenda1955 1955 Jrnl. Business 28 13/1 Most groups, in other words, have ‘hidden agendas’. These are the inter-personal feeling, the individual strivings for power or for approval, which exist but are not expressed. 1971 Psychol. Abstr. Feb. 317/2 Recent studies have shown that the ‘hidden agenda’ of schooling educates students' attitudes, values, and perceptions, and that personal/psychological education is taking place. 1987 M. Atwood Bluebeard's Egg 40 Sex was the hidden agenda at these discussions. 2001 N.Y. Times 13 May i. 20/4 There is no deviousness or hidden agenda... What it is, is what it is. Draft additions June 2003 hidden curriculum n. Education those aspects of a child's education (e.g. speech patterns, codes of behaviour, social attitudes, etc.) which are not part of the formal school curriculum, but are instead acquired as part of his or her experience within the social contexts of school and home. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > [noun] > types of learning opsimathya1656 latent learning1929 hypnopaedia1932 naming of (the) parts1946 sleep-learning1953 sitting next to (also by, with) Nelly1963 hidden curriculum1964 1958 W. C. Kvaraceus in P. M. Halverson Frontiers of Secondary Educ. III. 19/1 This subliminal curriculum, like the hidden but major portion of the iceberg, is in a sense a natural extension of the visible and formal curriculum of the school.] 1964 W. C. Kvaraceus in Negro Self-concept iii. 17 But now let us look into the ‘hidden curriculum’ of the school. 1964 F. L. Strodtbeck in M. D. Fantini & G. Weinstein Disadvantaged (1968) ii. 106 The hidden curriculum of the middle class home. 1977 Times Educ. Suppl. 21 Oct. 35/1 We also need to consider the ‘hidden curriculum’..which includes such important learning as understanding alternative orientations to the ‘official’ knowledge of the school, how to satisfy the teacher's requirements, how to respond to the knowledge or normative content in ways that are acceptable to one's peers as well as to one's teachers. 1994 T. May Victorian Schoolroom 27 (caption) Although the curriculum for boys and girls was largely the same, there were many ways in which the ‘hidden curriculum’ discriminated against girls, as this table shows. Draft additions June 2003 hidden economy n. (a) gen. an economy or saving that is not readily apparent (rare); (b) Politics and Economics (now the usual sense), the economic sector consisting of transactions that are (illegally) not declared for tax purposes, and which are therefore not taken into account in official statistics; = underground economy n. at underground adj. 4e. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > specific sector of the economy rural economics1764 supply side1873 agriculturism1885 business sector1918 black economy1929 hidden economy1930 underground economy1978 old economy1983 1930 Times 10 Mar. 14/6 An increase of £35,000 for the Auxiliary and Reserve Forces is a hidden economy, for it shows that this non-regular portion of the Service is steadily growing and thus easing the burden on the more expensive regular units. 1972 N.Y. Times 3 Dec. 16/1 (headline) A hidden economy is booming in Italy. 1990 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 1 Apr. c5 Manufacturers may take hidden economies in the way they join the dozens of tiny slats together, but visually, it's impossible to tell most knockoffs from the Cassina copies. 1996 Guardian 30 Mar. 40/1 Prostitution is where the hidden economy (black is now politically incorrect) glamorously blends into organised crime, hidden from the gaze of the taxman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1547
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