英语词汇“hide”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	hide
释义	hide I. \ˈhīd\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English hyde, from Old English hīgid, hīd; akin to Old English hīwan members of a household — more at home : any of various old English units of land area; especially : a unit of 120 acres used in the Domesday Book — see carucate, sulung II. verb (hid \ˈhid\ ; hidden \ˈhid^ən\ ; or hid ; hiding \ˈhīdiŋ\ ; hides \ˈhīdz\) Etymology: Middle English hiden, from Old English hȳdan; akin to Middle Irish codal skin, Greek keuthein to conceal, Sanskrit kuhara cave, Old English hȳd hide, skin — more at hide IV *transitive verb* 1. a. : to deposit in a place of concealment : put out of sight : secrete < hide a key under a doormat > b. : to conceal for shelter or protection : shield < Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee — A.M.Toplady > 2. : to withhold from someone or from public knowledge : keep secret < fled to her room to hide her grief — Andrew Meredith > < to keep a secret, you must also hide the fact that you have one to keep — Piero Compton > 3. a. : to screen from view or from detection by the senses : cover up < a thick mantle of glacial deposits hides the solid rocks — L.D.Stamp > < the purling water was nearly hidden by the birr of wings — Sacheverell Sitwell > < sugar coating hides the taste of pills > b. : to submerge in something that makes comprehension difficult : bury 3b, obscure < pokes fun at some of his colleagues who hide their important messages in language only intelligible to other professors — Word Study > < facts hidden in folklore > *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to remain out of sight : become concealed < hid in the island bushes is a frigate — H.S.Canby > < spongy bogs … hiding here and there in the woods — John Muir †1914 > b. : to go into or remain in concealment to evade authority or pursuit < fewer places for violators to hide — Newsweek > — often used with out or up < people who do not wish to have any contact with the military government authorities are … hiding out on farms — Nora Waln > < went back to the ranch kind of slow to give me time to hide up — C.T.Jackson > 2. : to seek protection or evade responsibility : take refuge — usually used with behind < hides behind dark glasses, hoping to avoid being recognized > < heads of companies who are not … gift-minded hide behind their boards of directors — Saturday Review > Synonyms: see conceal • - hide one's face from - hide one's head - hide one's light under a bushel III. noun (-s) 1. : a hiding place < knew his hide had to be very good to elude the scrutiny of the local liquor raiders — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > 2. Britain : blind III 2 < in shooting at driven lions it is best to wait until they have passed the hide — James Stevenson-Hamilton > IV. noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English hid, hide, from Old English hȳd; akin to Old High German hūt skin, hide, Old Norse hūth skin, hide, Latin cutis skin, Greek kytos hollow vessel, skytos skin, leather, Old Prussian keuto shell, covering, Sanskrit skunāti he covers; basic meaning: to cover, conceal 1. a. : the outer covering of an animal : coat < bald patches of rock like the hide of a bison when it is shedding — Norman Mailer > b. : a raw or tanned pelt taken from an adult of one of the larger animals (as a cow) as distinguished from a skin of one of the smaller or younger animals (as a goat or calf) < calfskins … produce a softer leather than cattle hides — G.S.Brady > c. : a piece of dressed pelt used as material for a manufactured article : leather < ladies' luggage set, in English hide — advt > 2. a. : the skin of a human being < he had a certain hard brownness of hide … a horny quality in his face and hands — Arthur Morrison > < much of the industrial plant was doubtless built out of the hides of the people — W.O.Douglas > b. : a covering aspect or front that gives protection against outside pressure < too tough a hide to have hurt feelings > c. : life < such strategy often saved the hide of the Grand Old Party — Dixon Wecter > • - hide or hair V. transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) : to give a beating to : flog < victualed him and clothed him and hided him for his own good when he needed it — S.H.Adams >
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