secretion
Definitions
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WordNet 3.6
- n secretion a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell
- n secretion the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance
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Additional illustrations & photos:
Application by Sidney Brooks for membership in the secret Order of '76
Letter written by secret agent No. 31
THE SECRET SESSION
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Interesting fact: In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money
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- Secretion (Physiol) Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
- Secretion The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
- Secretion (Physiol) 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.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Interesting fact: During warm weather, hippos secrete a reddish, oily fluid, called pink sweat, which acts as a skin conditioner to keep it moist.
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- n secretion In physiology:
- n secretion In animal physiology, the process of preparing and separating substances by glandular activity. The product or secretion usually consists of substances previously existing in the blood, such as water, salts, etc., combined with others which have been elaborated by the glandular epithelium from more or less different substances in the blood. The secretion may be eliminated from the body as detrimental, as urine, or it may be used, as the digestive secretions, to serve requirements of the organism or (as the milk) those of its offspring. Secretions which are merely eliminated as detrimental are called excretions. The act of secreting seems, in most instances at least, to be a vital act of the glandular epithelium, and is often, if not always, under direct nervous control.
- n secretion In vegetable physiology, the process by which substances are separated from the sap of vegetables. The descending sap of plants is not merely subservient to nutrition, but furnishes various matters which are secreted or separated from its mass, and afterward elaborated by particular organs. These secretions are exceedingly numerous, and constitute the great bulk of the solid parts of plants. They have been divided into— general or nutritious secretions, the component parts of which are gum, sugar, starch, lignin, albumen, and gluten; and special or non-assimilable secretions, which may be arranged under the heads of acids, alkalis, neuter principles, resinous principles, coloring matters, milks, oils, resins, etc.
- n secretion A substance or product secreted, or elaborated and emitted.
- n secretion Synonyms Excretion, Secretion. See excretion.
- n secretion A mineral deposit formed in a fissure or cavity by growth inward from the walls: contrasted with concretion, which grows outward from a nucleus.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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Interesting fact: During World War II Canadian scientists secretly developed biological weapons which were later taken over by the USA. Anthrax was one.
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- n Secretion the act of secreting or separating from a circulating fluid: that which is so secreted
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Quotations
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“Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.” -
“The secret of getting things done is to act!”
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“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” -
“The secret anniversaries of the heart.” -
“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”
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“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”
Idioms
Open secret - An open secret is something that is supposed to be secret but is common knowledge.
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Etymology
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
L. secretio,: cf. F. sécrétion,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
L. secernĕre, secretum.
Usage
In literature:
Why is England so secret with us?
"54-40 or Fight" by Emerson Hough
We'll take your word for it that Will wants to keep his ways secret.
"Children of the Mist" by Eden Phillpotts
The woman's seemed to burn their way into the inmost secrets of the man's soul.
"The Redemption of David Corson" by Charles Frederic Goss
They must undoubtedly have had white men in the secret.
"The Underground Railroad" by William Still
This task, considering I dared not make inquiries and must approach him secretly, might turn out to be anything but easy.
"The Rustlers of Pecos County" by Zane Grey
The only person who had penetrated to the secret of her love for Frederick Massingbird was her father, Dr. West.
"Verner's Pride" by Mrs. Henry Wood
It would be a goodly secret to have for our very own.
"The Secret Chamber at Chad" by Evelyn Everett-Green
And who would guess the secret of that tangled forest?
"The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn" by Evelyn Everett-Green
But another secret, no less tragic and of a far more sensational nature, related to a certain Mr. Macfarlane.
"Strange Pages from Family Papers" by T. F. Thiselton Dyer
But that was different from the secret sharpening of poniards.
"Sunrise" by William Black
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In poetry:
God whose breast is rest
In the time of strife,
In thy secret breast
Sheltering souls opprest
From the heat of life;
In the time of strife,
In thy secret breast
Sheltering souls opprest
From the heat of life;
"Christmas Antiphones" by Algernon Charles Swinburne
For it somehow makes you think,
It has such a secret air,
It might lead you to the brink
Of - oh well, of anywhere!
It has such a secret air,
It might lead you to the brink
Of - oh well, of anywhere!
"Blind Alley" by Eleanor Farjeon
I have but marked the place,
But half the secret told,
That, following this slight trace,
Others may find the gold.
But half the secret told,
That, following this slight trace,
Others may find the gold.
"In The Harbour: Prelude" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He waits in secret on his God,
His God in secret sees;
Let earth be all in arms abroad,
He dwells in heav'nly peace.
His God in secret sees;
Let earth be all in arms abroad,
He dwells in heav'nly peace.
"Hymn 31 part 2" by Isaac Watts
Within thy secret presence, Lord,
Let me for ever dwell;
No fenced city, walled and barred,
Secures a saint so well.
Let me for ever dwell;
No fenced city, walled and barred,
Secures a saint so well.
"Psalm 31 part 2" by Isaac Watts
Something unseen o'er all her form
Did nameless grace impart
A secret charm that won the way
At once into the heart.
Did nameless grace impart
A secret charm that won the way
At once into the heart.
"A Tale" by John Logan
In news:
Couple's Secrets: 'It hit me all at once ,' he remembers of college romance.
All or nothing' for Victoria's Secret brand.
Though allowed to finish the school year because his tuition was paid for, he soon traded in books for a career encoding and decoding secret messages toward the latter half of the Vietnam War.
It's no great secret that China and other emerging READ.
The author's great-aunt Luz, third from the left, top row, was the guardian of the secret Sephardic Jewish identity of the Catholic Carvajals.
In this water ski how to, Marcus Brown breaks down his approach into the buoy, sharing three secrets to a smooth turn.
It's no secret that Justin Bieber causes mass chaos wherever he goes, but in some cases, him and his mob are not a welcome sight.
An secret sufferer of anorexia and bulemia since her earliest teen years, the Broadway veteran now tours the country, presenting her one-woman show "Eaten Alive".
Deciphering genetic codes in monkeys may yield AIDS secrets.
Tall Stories is like a new secret hide-out for the bookworms who as children would sneak away someplace to spend an afternoon reading.
The Secrets of Your iPhone and iPad.
The Sexual Secret of Marijuana.
The "sexy little geisha" outfit from Victoria's Secret (Victoria's Secret/Screengrab).
How do you prove your rights have been violated by a secret government program if the details of the program are secret.
Pinterest is putting the "secret" in Secret Santa this year.
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In science:
An alternative approach is to consider the mutual information between the observed data and the secret data.
Statistical Analysis of Privacy and Anonymity Guarantees in Randomized Security Protocol Implementations
Consequently, this measure depends only on the protocol and not on the distribution of the secrets.
Statistical Analysis of Privacy and Anonymity Guarantees in Randomized Security Protocol Implementations
Many of these techniques assume some distribution (mostly uniform) on the secret input space and only provide guarantees for such input spaces.
Statistical Analysis of Privacy and Anonymity Guarantees in Randomized Security Protocol Implementations
For example, an attacker could have some probabilistic model for the relation between secret F and observable data G as well as some guess about the secret facts F .
Statistical Analysis of Privacy and Anonymity Guarantees in Randomized Security Protocol Implementations
The incremental gain in knowledge of the attacker is defined to be the information flow from secret to observable data.
Statistical Analysis of Privacy and Anonymity Guarantees in Randomized Security Protocol Implementations
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