secrete : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: secrete	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
secrete v generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream" Synonym(s): secrete, release place out of sight; keep secret; "The money was secreted from his children"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Secrete \Secrete"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Secreted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Secreting}.] [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.) 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}.