Crossword clues for hiding
hiding
- Masking
- Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- Cover as if with a shroud
- The activity of keeping something secret
- Prevent from being seen or discovered
- Woodshed comeuppance
- Going to ground, getting beating
- Current racket in mercury leads to a severe defeat
- Concealment - severe defeat
- Concealment - beating
- Concealed serious defeat
- Avoiding being taken for punishment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hide \Hide\ (h[imac]d), v. t. [imp. Hid (h[i^]d); p. p. Hidden (h[i^]d"d'n), Hid; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiding (h[imac]d"[i^]ng).] [OE. hiden, huden, AS. h[=y]dan; akin to Gr. key`qein, and prob. to E. house, hut, and perh. to E. hide of an animal, and to hoard. Cf. Hoard.]
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To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
A city that is set on an hill can not be hid.
--Matt. v. 15.If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid.
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To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate.
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To remove from danger; to shelter. In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion. --Ps. xxvi. 5. To hide one's self, to put one's self in a condition to be safe; to secure protection. ``A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself.'' --Prov. xxii. 3. To hide the face, to withdraw favor. ``Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.'' --Ps. xxx. 7. To hide the face from.
To overlook; to pardon. ``Hide thy face from my sins.''
--Ps. li. 9.-
To withdraw favor from; to be displeased with.
Syn: To conceal; secrete; disguise; dissemble; screen; cloak; mask; veil. See Conceal.
Hide \Hide\ (h[imac]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hided; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiding.] To flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng. & Low, U. S.]
Hiding \Hid"ing\, n. The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment.
There was the hiding of his power.
--Hab. iii. 4.
Hiding \Hid"ing\, n.
A flogging. [Colloq.]
--Charles Reade.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"concealment," early 13c., verbal noun from hide (v.1). Hiding place is from mid-15c.; an Old English word for this was hydels.
"a flogging," 1809, from hide (n.1), perhaps in reference to a whip or thong made of animal hide. Old English had hyde ðolian "to undergo a flogging," and hydgild "fine paid to save one's skin (from a punishment by flogging)." The English expression a hiding to nothing (by 1905) referred to a situation where there was disgrace in defeat and no honor in victory.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) A state of concealment. 2 (context countable English) A place of concealment. vb. (present participle of hide English) Etymology 2
n. (context colloquial countable English) A beating or spanking.
WordNet
n. the activity of keeping something secret [syn: concealment, concealing]
Wikipedia
Hiding (also called abscondence or concealment) is obscuring something from view or rendering it inconspicuous.
Hiding may also refer to:
- Hiding, a 2015 Australian television series
- Hiding Out, a 1987 movie starring Jon Cryer
- A Figure in Hiding, Volume 16 in the original Hardy Boys book series
- In computer science:
- Information hiding, in computer science, the hiding of design decisions in a computer program that are most likely to change
- The Hiding (programming) of inherited methods in object-oriented programming
- In British and New Zealand slang a "hiding" may refer to a sound beating. Come here Rangi, I am gonna give you such a hiding
- Christoffer Hiding (born 1985), Swedish singer
Hiding is an Australian television drama series which screened on ABC1 from 5 February 2015. The eight-part series follows a Gold Coast family in witness protection who must build a new life in a strange city, Sydney. It is created by Matt Ford and directed by Shawn Seet, Tori Garrett and Grant Brown.
Usage examples of "hiding".
Dottie stood up from her hiding place behind an overturned sofa across the room, and made her way across the smashed lights and broken video equipment to his side, absently reloading from her bandoleer.
And when Karen called me out of my hiding place, to attend her by a window, the sky was acrawl with them.
But the fat was still there, hiding, scrambled-egg agglutinations of cholesterol.
He held Cric back, hiding behind some scrub, while agile Chipmunk worked his way into position.
A massive pseudopod of amorphous protoplasm rose ten feet into the air, quivered, dropped to the ground, broke free of the mother-body hiding below, and formed itself into an obscenely fat black spider the size of a pony.
Perhaps in lands where I am not already known as a figure of fun, an anchoress forever in hiding.
She had lovely hands, Jill thought, slender and graceful, with long fingernails that had been stained a tasteful orange-red with annatto seeds and polished to such a glossy perfection that Jill found herself hiding her own calloused fingers and bitten nails in her lap.
Israeli Southern Command at El Arish, where soldiers were hiding the slaughtered prisoners under the sand.
She got down on her hands and knees and crept from hiding place to hiding place, always keeping the bulk of a chest or an aumbry between herself and the killer.
As they passed his hiding place within the dense forest thicket, Ali Baba further heard the sounds of coarse laughter and the sort of language one did not generally associate with the upper echelons of polite society.
A moment later Babbie was on his knee, hiding her emotion in the front of his jacket, and he was trying his best to soothe her with characteristic Winslow nonsense.
Still, every now and then she would wake in the chasm night to the sound of floppers honking in the root mat, half dreaming about hiding on the rootwall, lumps of charcoal in her hands, looking up at the adze-cut end of the mainroot while hearing from below that phlegmy chuckle as Slysaw Bander came climbing up the stairs.
It was seeing that Byle Bander waiting for me on the bridge, like some old crawly-claw, hiding in a root hole.
Another, built like an athlete, passed him so quickly that Becker was sure he was hiding something.
The truth about Bibbs was in the poem which Edith had adopted: he had so thoroughly formed the over-sensitive habit of hiding his feelings that no doubt he had forgotten--by this time--where he had put some of them, especially those which concerned himself.