HIDE


Meaning of HIDE in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a hidden meaning

She felt there was a hidden meaning behind his words.

a hidden motive

She wondered if there was a hidden motive for his departure.

a hidden talent

Have a go – you may discover a hidden talent!

a hiding place

He had watched the farm workers from his hiding place.

a mist obscures/hides sth (= covers something so that you cannot see it )

Mist obscured the ships in the harbor.

be hidden from view

The inside of the house was hidden from view by curtains.

buried/hidden/sunken treasure

hidden depths

She’s quiet, but perhaps she has hidden depths .

hidden extras (= additional charges which you are not told about )

Be careful, there may be hidden extras .

hide evidence

The killer may have tried to burn the bodies in an attempt to hide the evidence.

hide your anger

For a second he was unable to hide his anger.

hide your disappointment ( also conceal your disappointment formal )

She turned away quickly to hide her disappointment.

hide your embarrassment

She started laughing in an attempt to hide her embarrassment.

hide your emotions ( also conceal your emotions formal )

Laura could not hide her emotions, or pretend to feel something she did not.

hide your feelings

She could no longer hide her feelings.

hide/conceal sb’s identity

She used a false name to conceal her identity.

hide/conceal your amusement

There’s no need to hide your amusement. I’m well aware of it.

hide/conceal your excitement

He tried to hide his excitement, but his voice was shaking.

hiding place

lie empty/open/hidden etc

The book lay open on the table.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

disappointment

He put Bonaventure down, stood, and broadened his smile, to hide his disappointment .

It is impossible to hide your disappointments if they are embodied in a 770-foot-high building like Worldwide Plaza.

Some of them were unable to hide their disappointment at being cheated out of the chance of facing the enemy.

The 36-year-old blonde beauty was unable to hide her bitter disappointment at failing to win her libel action against the People.

emotion

I shall have to hide my emotions better, she decided.

Its tragic revelations are presented in a quiet, conversational style which hides deep emotions .

It had stripped away their ability to hide emotions from each other.

She was feeling her loss much more than she revealed; she was schooled in hiding her emotions .

She was simply not intelligent enough to hide her emotions , to pretend to be feeling something she was not.

Such people give more than they take; they tend to hide their emotions and repress their desires just to please others.

Afterwards her home had become a place of coldness, of ugly, hidden , unspoken emotions .

face

John Gummer hid his face in his hands.

Not even the glasses and scarf could completely hide a face that had been on the covers of magazines.

Julia, wearing a black leather jacket and faded jeans, hid her face as she scurried through Heathrow.

Some do not bother to hide their faces .

He hid his face as his gray sedan drove through the prison gates.

Shy and quiet, he hid his face behind his hands and laughed.

identity

The mysterious disguise hid the identity of the figure, but could not conceal that it only had one arm.

To do so, he must hide his identity .

She used the name Blondie to hide her identity .

And they hid their identities , more so than anyone imagined.

light

The suppressor field seemed to work perversely on Jaq, who already knew how to hide his own light .

For far too long you've been hiding your light under a bushel.

Fortunately, much of it was hidden because the gas lights were so dim.

When he had strength enough he turned his face into his arms and hid from the light .

place

No face to save, no place to hide .

Not an easy place in which to hide anything; not an easy place to escape.

Culturally speaking, there is no place left to hide in the modern world.

Second, the change and upheaval of the past years has left us with no place to hide .

There weren't many places to hide .

We were grateful for a place to hide during the raids.

She looked around her anxiously for some place to hide .

He had to find another place to hide that money.

sight

More easily now, he made his way along the roof-tops, hidden from sight by the forest of chimney stacks.

Her body had been hidden from sight by the cauldron.

I kept my hands clasped tightly to avoid the habitual gesture of hiding myself from sight .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be on a hiding to nothing

But he was on a hiding to nothing really.

Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing.

cover/hide a multitude of sins

Patterned carpet can hide a multitude of sins.

Curtains around a bed can also hide a multitude of sins in patient care.

It hides a multitude of sins.

It was called UDAG-a sincere-sounding acronym that covered a multitude of sins.

Jay was a solid woman, dressed in dark loose comfortable clothes that hid a multitude of sins.

hidden agenda

Although the work of the group is documented elsewhere, I feel I've gained considerably from the hidden agenda.

Even this may still leave some hidden agendas lurking beneath the surface.

For further advice on tactics for avoiding hidden agendas or surfacing them, see Games on page 71.

Instead, you will find hidden agendas and other problems continuing to undermine your collective performance and change.

It is only because of our fears and hidden agendas that we don't always get what we think we want.

The London Implementation Group has no hidden agenda.

There is frequently a hidden agenda in the use of games.

What proved decisive, however, was part of the hidden agenda of unemployment.

hide your light under a bushel

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

"That's OK," she said, trying to hide her disappointment.

A pair of mirrored sunglasses hid her eyes from view.

Ask me anything you want - I have nothing to hide .

Dad's coming. Quick - hide !

Dale hid behind some garbage cans in the alley until the men passed.

He hides his real feelings under that big smile.

He took off his ring to hide the fact that he was married.

I tried to hide my anxiety from the rest of the family by pretending that everything was normal.

I used to hide his cigarettes from him so he couldn't smoke.

José was unable to hide his embarrassment.

Low clouds hid the top of the mountain.

Most of his face was hidden by a beard.

She's coming - we'd better hide !

She somehow hid the fact she couldn't read throughout her schooldays.

Some cameras are so small they can be hidden in a reporter's baseball cap.

The agency has been criticized for being too secretive and hiding information from the public.

The bushes had become overgrown and now hid the entrance to the garden.

The cat always hides under the bed when we have visitors.

They put the money in a small box and hid it under the bed.

Where can we hide these presents so the kids don't find them?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

On one tank I had, the fish panicked and hid every time I switched on the lighting.

So my secret can be hidden behind the sleight of a venial fib after all.

You would conspire with him to hide from me what I desire to know?

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

play

I had played hide and seek with Sam for years.

A goose named Alfonse and a gosling named Little Bird decide to play hide and seek.

seek

I had played hide and seek with Sam for years.

Their bosses, who play the same game with their bosses, join in the annual contest of hide and seek .

A goose named Alfonse and a gosling named Little Bird decide to play hide and seek .

SHIme ILEchl Anyone who grew up in Brooklyn knows the term that describes the opening of a game of hide and seek .

tan

Small Star tanned a hide and carefully covered the pony each night.

We cut the fur, tan the hides , and sew them.

So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cover/hide a multitude of sins

Patterned carpet can hide a multitude of sins.

Curtains around a bed can also hide a multitude of sins in patient care.

It hides a multitude of sins.

It was called UDAG-a sincere-sounding acronym that covered a multitude of sins.

Jay was a solid woman, dressed in dark loose comfortable clothes that hid a multitude of sins.

hidden agenda

Although the work of the group is documented elsewhere, I feel I've gained considerably from the hidden agenda.

Even this may still leave some hidden agendas lurking beneath the surface.

For further advice on tactics for avoiding hidden agendas or surfacing them, see Games on page 71.

Instead, you will find hidden agendas and other problems continuing to undermine your collective performance and change.

It is only because of our fears and hidden agendas that we don't always get what we think we want.

The London Implementation Group has no hidden agenda.

There is frequently a hidden agenda in the use of games.

What proved decisive, however, was part of the hidden agenda of unemployment.

hide your light under a bushel

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a buffalo hide

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His hide is removed with head and paws attached and arranged upon a rack to look alive.

If the meticulous and demanding rescue work succeeds, birdwatchers using the hide will be in for a treat.

If you brush against their hair it rasps the hide right off you.

It was the flayed hide to a bull, winging on the tide out to sea.

The alligator, though pursued for its hide and much reduced in numbers, is not in present danger of extinction.

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