Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 39
Secreted (imp. & p. p.) of
Secrete
Secreting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secrete
Secrete (v. t.) To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.
Secrete (v. t.) To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.
Secretion (n.) The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
Secretion (n.) The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.
Secretion (n.) Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
Secretist (n.) A dealer in secrets.
Secretitious (a.) Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors.
Secretive (a.) Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.
Secretiveness (n.) The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.
Secretiveness (n.) The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment.
Secretly (adv.) In a secret manner.
Secretness (n.) The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed.
Secretness (n.) Secretiveness; concealment.
Secrete-metory (a.) Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.
Secretory (a.) Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves.
Secretory (n.) A secretory vessel; a secernent.
Sect (n.) A cutting; a scion.
Sect (n.) Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.
Sectant (n.) One of the portions of space bounded by the three coordinate planes. Specif. (Crystallog.), one of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.
Sectarian (n.) Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.
Sectarian (n.) One of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.
Sectarianism (n.) The quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.
Sectarianize (v. t.) To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.
Sectarism (n.) Sectarianism.
Sectarist (n.) A sectary.
Sectaries (n. pl. ) of Sectary
Sectary (n.) A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter.
Sectator (n.) A follower; a disciple; an adherent to a sect.
Sectile (a.) Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.
Sectility (n.) The state or quality of being sectile.
Section (n.) 切下的部分，片，塊 [C]；（事物的）部分 [C]；（文章等的）節；（條文等的）款，項 [C] The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
Section (n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice. Specifically:
Section (n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character [sect], often used to denote such a division.
It is hardly possible to give a distinct view of his several arguments in distinct sections. -- Locke.
Section (n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.
The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics. -- Macaulay.
Section (n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
Section (n.) (Geom.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
Section (n.) (Nat. Hist.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign [sect].
Section (n.) (Mus.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See {Phrase}.
Section (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.
Note: In mechanical drawing, as in these Illustrations of a cannon, a longitudinal section (a) usually represents the object as cut through its center lengthwise and vertically; a cross or transverse section (b), as cut crosswise and vertically; and a horizontal section (c), as cut through its center horizontally. Oblique sections are made at various angles. In architecture, a vertical section is a drawing showing the interior, the thickness of the walls, etc., as if made on a vertical plane passed through a building.
{Angular sections} (Math.), A branch of analysis which treats of the relations of sines, tangents, etc., of arcs to the sines, tangents, etc., of their multiples or of their parts. [R.]
{Conic sections}. (Geom.) See under {Conic}.
{Section liner} (Drawing), An instrument to aid in drawing a series of equidistant parallel lines, -- used in representing sections.
{Thin section}, A section or slice, as of mineral, animal, or vegetable substance, thin enough to be transparent, and used for study under the microscope.
Syn: Part; portion; division.
Usage: {Section}, {Part}. The English more commonly apply the word section to a part or portion of a body of men; as, a section of the clergy, a small section of the Whigs, etc. In the United States this use is less common, but another use, unknown or but little known in England, is very frequent, as in the phrases "the eastern section of our country," etc., the same sense being also given to the adjective sectional; as, sectional feelings, interests, etc.
Section (n.) A self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical); "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section" [syn: {section}, {subdivision}].
Section (n.) A very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope; "sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue".
Section (n.) A distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people; "no section of the nation is more ardent than the South"; "there are three synagogues in the Jewish section".
Section (n.) One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object; "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road" [syn: {section}, {segment}].
Section (n.) A small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon.
Section (n.) One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division" [syn: {part}, {section}, {division}].
Section (n.) A land unit equal to 1 square mile
Section (n.) (Geometry) The area created by a plane cutting through a solid [syn: {section}, {plane section}].
Section (n.) A small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately; "a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course" [syn: {section}, {discussion section}].
Section (n.) A division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class.
Section (n.) A small army unit usually having a special function.
Section (n.) A specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury" [syn: {department}, {section}].
Section (n.) A segment of a citrus fruit; "he ate a section of the orange".
Section (n.) The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation) [syn: {incision}, {section}, {surgical incision}].
Section (v.) (v. t.)把……分成段（或組等）；將……切片 Divide into segments; "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word" [syn: {segment}, {section}].
Sectional (a.) Of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.
Sectional (a.) Consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
Sectionalism (n.) A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
Sectionality (n.) The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
Sectionalize (v. t.) To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests.
Sectionally (adv.) In a sectional manner.
Sectionize (v. t.) To form into sections.
Sectism (n.) Devotion to a sect.
Sectist (n.) One devoted to a sect; a soetary.
Sectiuncle (n.) A little or petty sect.
Sector (n.) A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.
Sector (n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.
Sector (n.) An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector.
Sectoral (a.) Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle.
Sectorial (a.) Adapted for cutting.
Sectorial (n.) A sectorial, or carnassial, tooth.
Secular (a.) 現世的；世俗的；非宗教的；修道院外的，在俗的 [B]；懷疑宗教教義的；反對教會教育的 Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
The secular year was kept but once a century. -- Addison.
Secular (a.) Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
Secular (a.) Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. -- Milton.
Secular (a.) (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.
He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy. -- Prescott.
Secular (a.) Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
I speak of folk in secular estate. -- Chaucer.
{Secular equation} (Astron.), The algebraic or numerical expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for.
{Secular games} (Rom. Antiq.), Games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like.
{Secular music}, Any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses.
{Secular hymn} or {Secular poem}, A hymn or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.
Secular (n.) (Eccl.) [C] 修道院外的教士，教區僧侶；俗人 A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. -- Burke.
Secular (n.) (Eccl.) A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir. -- Busby.
Secular (n.) A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
Secular (a.) Of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations.
Secular (a.) Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church" [syn: {worldly}, {secular}, {temporal}] [ant: {unworldly}].
Secular (a.) Not concerned with or devoted to religion; "sacred and profane music"; "secular drama"; "secular architecture", "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment" [syn: {profane}, {secular}] [ant: {sacred}].
Secular (a.) Of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows; "the secular clergy" [ant: {religious}].
Secular (a.) Characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry" [syn: {laic}, {lay}, {secular}].
Secular (n.) Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person [syn: {layman}, {layperson}, {secular}] [ant: {clergyman}, {man of the cloth}, {reverend}].
Secular (a.) 世俗的；非宗教的 Not having any connection with religion.
// We live in an increasingly secular society, in which religion has less and less influence on our daily lives.
// Secular education.
// A secular state.
Secularism (n.) [U] 現世主義；世俗主義；宗教與教育分離論；政教分離論 The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity.
Secularism (n.) The tenets or principles of the secularists.
Secularism (n.) A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations.
Secularism (n.) [ U ] 現世主義；世俗主義 The belief that religion should not be involved with the ordinary social and political activities of a country.
Secularist (n.) [C] 現世主義者；世俗主義者；宗教與教育分離論者 One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.
Secularist (n.) An advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education.
Secularity (n.) Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.
Secularization (n.) 俗化；把教育從宗教內分離 The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
Secularization (n.) The activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion [syn: {secularization}, {secularisation}].
Secularization (n.) Transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession [syn: {secularization}, {secularisation}].
Secularized (imp. & p. p.) of Secularize
Secularizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secularize
Secularize (v. t.) 改作俗用；轉為政府之所有；從宗教分離；許可（脫離修道院）還俗 To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.
Secularize (v. t.) To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property.
At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. -- W. Coxe.
Secularize (v. t.) To make worldly or unspiritual. -- Bp. Horsley.
Secularize (v.) Make secular and draw away from a religious orientation; "Ataturk secularized Turkey" [syn: {secularize}, {secularise}].
Secularize (v.) Transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control [syn: {desacralize}, {secularize}].
Secularize (v.) [ T ] (UK usually secularise) 使世俗化；使現世化 When something is secularized, religious influence, power, or control is removed from it.
// He claims that Western secularized society makes it difficult to live as a Christian.
Secularly (adv.) In a secular or worldly manner.
Secularness (n.) The quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly-minded-ness.
Compare: Worldliness
Worldliness (n.) [Mass noun] 世俗心；俗氣；物慾；世故 The quality of being experienced and sophisticated.
‘Both display wisdom and worldliness of much older men.’
‘My transition from childish cluelessness to teenage worldliness.’
Worldliness (n.) [Mass noun] Concern with material values or ordinary life rather than a spiritual existence.
‘Chaucer drew attention to clerical avarice and worldliness.’
Secund (a.) Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk.
Secundate (v. t.) To make prosperous.
Secundation (n.) Prosperity.
Secundine (n.) The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.
Secundine (n.) The afterbirth, or placenta and membranes; -- generally used in the plural.
Secundo-geniture (n.) A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited.
Securable (a.) That may be secured.
Secure (a.) 安全的，無危險的 [（+from/ against）]；安心的，無憂慮的 [（+about）]；有把握的，確定無疑的 [（+of）] Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.
But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes. -- Dryden.
Secure (a.) Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense. -- Macaulay.
Secure (a.) Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.
Confidence then bore thee on, secure Either to meet no danger, or to find Matter of glorious trial. -- Milton.
Secure (a.) Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from. "Secure from fortune's blows." -- Dryden.
Syn: Safe; undisturbed; easy; sure; certain; assured; confident; careless; heedless; inattentive.
Secured (imp. & p. p.) of Secure
Securing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Secure
Secure (v. t.) 把……弄牢；關緊；使安全；掩護；保衛 [（+from/ against）]； 弄到，獲得；替……弄到 [（+for）] [O1] To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight. -- Dryden.
Secure (v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.
Secure (v. t.) To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.
Secure (v. t.) To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
{Secure arms} (Mil.), A command and a position in the manual of arms, used in wet weather, the object being to guard the firearm from becoming wet. The piece is turned with the barrel to the front and grasped by the right hand at the lower band, the muzzle is dropped to the front, and the piece held with the guard under the right arm, the hand supported against the hip, and the thumb on the rammer.
Secure (a.) Free from fear or doubt; easy in mind; "he was secure that nothing will be held against him" [syn: {secure}, {unafraid}, {untroubled}] [ant: {insecure}].
Secure (a.) Free from danger or risk; "secure from harm"; "his fortune was secure"; "made a secure place for himself in his field" [ant: {insecure}, {unsafe}].
Secure (a.) Not likely to fail or give way; "the lock was secure"; "a secure foundation"; "a secure hold on her wrist" [ant: {insecure}].
Secure (a.) Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with; "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable"; "a secure telephone connection" [syn: {impregnable}, {inviolable}, {secure}, {strong}, {unassailable}, {unattackable}].
Secure (a.) Financially sound; "a good investment"; "a secure investment" [syn: {dependable}, {good}, {safe}, {secure}].
Secure (v.) Get by special effort; "He procured extra cigarettes even though they were rationed" [syn: {procure}, {secure}].
Secure (v.) Cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" [syn: {fasten}, {fix}, {secure}] [ant: {unfasten}].
Secure (v.) Assure payment of.
Secure (v.) Make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!" [syn: {guarantee}, {ensure}, {insure}, {assure}, {secure}].
Secure (v.) Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak" [syn: {plug}, {stop up}, {secure}].
Secure (v.) Furnish with battens; "batten ships" [syn: {batten}, {batten down}, {secure}].
Securely (adv.) 安全地；有把握地，無疑地；牢固地，穩固地 In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely.
His daring foe . . . securely him defied. --Milton.
Securely (adv.) In a secure manner; in a manner free from danger; "she held the child securely" [syn: {securely}, {firmly}].
Securely (adv.) In a confident and unselfconscious manner; "he acts very securely in front of the camera" [ant: {insecurely}].
Securely (adv.) In a manner free from fear or risk; "the outcome of expansion in the sixties and seventies will be an academic hierarchy securely supported by scholastic selection" [ant: {insecurely}].
Securely (adv.) In an invulnerable manner; "the agreed line was to involve at several points the withdrawal of French troops from positions which they had quite securely held".
Securement (n.) 把握；獲得；取得 The act of securing; protection. [R.]
Society condemns the securement in all cases of perpetual protection by means of perpetual imprisonment. -- C. A. Ives.
Secureness (n.) The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
Secureness (n.) The state of freedom from fear or danger [ant: {insecureness}].
Secureness (n.) The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment [syn: {fastness}, {fixedness}, {fixity}, {fixture}, {secureness}] [ant: {looseness}].
Securer (n.) 保衛者，保証者 One who, or that which, secures.
Securer (n.) Someone who obtains or acquires; "the procurer of opera tickets" [syn: {procurer}, {securer}].
Securifera (n. pl.) The Serrifera.
Securiform (a.) Having the form of an ax hatchet.