COVERT vs SECRET: NOUN
- A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
- In fowling, a company; a flock.
- Same as coverture, 3.
- A thicket; a shady place or a hiding-place; a cover for game.
- Something that conceals or hides; a screen; a disguise; a pretext; an excuse.
- A protection; a shelter; a defense; something that covers and shelters.
- One of the small feathers covering the bases of the longer feathers of a bird's wings or tail.
- Thick underbrush or woodland affording cover for game.
- A covered place or shelter; hiding place.
- A covering or cover.
- A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- A flock of coots
- Plural In ornithology, feathers covering the bases, or more, of the large feathers of the wing or tail; the tectrices.
- A feather that covers others
- Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
- One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
- Something studiously concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not revealed, or not to be revealed.
- A thing not discovered; what is unknown or unexplained; a mystery.
- The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs.
- In a private place; in privacy or secrecy; in a state or place not seen; privately.
- Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- Something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
- Information known only to a special group
- Something that is kept out of the knowledge or sight of others or is known only to oneself or a few.
- Something that remains beyond understanding or explanation; a mystery.
- A method or formula for doing or making something well, especially when not widely known.
- A variable prayer said after the Offertory and before the Preface in the Mass.
- Something studiously hidden or concealed; a thing kept from general knowledge; what is not or should not be revealed.
- A hidden, unrevealed, unexplained, or unex-plainable thing; a mystery.
- The key or principle by the application of which some difficulty is solved, or that which is not obvious is explained or made clear; hidden reason or explanation.
- Secrecy.
- In liturgics, a variable prayer in the Roman and some other Latin liturgies, said secretly (see secretly) by the celebrant after the offertory, etc., and immediately before the preface.
- Plural The parts of the body which propriety requires to be concealed.
- A concealed piece or suit of armor. Persons fearing assassination sometimes wear such defenses beneath their ordinary dress.
- A skull-cap of steel worn sometimes under and sometimes over the camail.
- A skeleton cap of slender steel bars, affording a good defense against a blow, worn within a hat or other head-covering.
- A secret device or contrivance.
COVERT vs SECRET: ADJECTIVE
- Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
- Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
- See Covered way, under Covered.
- Under cover, authority or protection.
- Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected.
- Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
- Being married and therefore protected by one's husband.
- Covered or covered over; sheltered.
- Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown: : secret.
- Secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed
- Of a wife; under the protection of her husband
- Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- Hidden from general view or use
- (of information) given in confidence or in secret
- Not openly made known
- Designed to elude detection
- Indulging only covertly
- Kept hidden from knowledge or view; concealed.
- Not expressed; inward.
- Not revealing a secret or not given to revealing secrets.
- Not expressed
- The next to highest level of official classification for documents
- Not open or public; kept private or not revealed
- Communicated covertly
- Given to keeping one's thoughts and activities unknown to others; secretive.
- Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.
- Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
- Beyond ordinary understanding; mysterious.
- Known or shared only by the initiated.
- Hidden; concealed.
- Not much visited; secluded.
- Containing information, the unauthorized disclosure of which poses a grave threat to national security.
- Separate; distinct.
- Operating in a hidden or confidential manner.
COVERT vs SECRET: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To keep secret.
COVERT vs SECRET: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Secret or hidden
- In law, under cover, authority, or protection: said of a married woman. See feme covert, under feme.
- Sheltered; not open or exposed: as, a covert place.
- Covered; hidden; private; secret; concealed; disguised.
- To cover.
- Synonyms and Secret, Latent, Private, Covert, Occult, Clandestine, hidden, concealed, covered, shrouded, veiled, obscure, recondite, close, unknown. The last four of the italicized words, and in their primary sense the participles, express intentional concealment; the others do not. Secret is the most general, but expresses complete concealment. Latent, literally lying concealed, may mean hidden from those most concerned: as, I had a latent sense, feeling, or desire; hence its appropriateness in the expression latent heat. Private (as, it was kept strictly private) emphasizes the fact that some know the thing in question, while others are kept in ignorance. Covert— that is, covered—suggests something underhand or well put out of sight: as, a covert motive, sneer, irony: it is opposed to frank or avowed. Occult suggests mystery that cannot be penetrated: as, the occult operations of nature; occult arts. Clandestine is now always used for studious or artful concealment of an objectionable or dishonorable sort: as, a clandestine correspondence: it applies especially to action.
- Affording privacy; retired; secluded; private.
- Occult; mysterious; not seen; not apparent: as, the secret operations of physical causes.
- Privy; not decent to be exposed to view.
- Set or kept apart; hidden; concealed.
- Not open or public
- Kept private or not revealed
- Close, cautious, or discreet in speech, or as regards the disclosure of one's own or another's affairs; faithful in keeping secrets; not given to blabbing or the betrayal of confidence; secretive; reticent.
- Beyond ordinary understanding
- (idiom) (in secret) Without others knowing.
COVERT vs SECRET: RELATED WORDS
- Conniving, Ulterior, Cloaked, Subterranean, Underground, Unrevealed, Disguised, Collusive, Backstairs, Concealment, Furtive, Undercover, Surreptitious, Secret, Clandestine
- Underground, Private, Enigma, Undercover, Unacknowledged, Classified, Mysterious, Surreptitious, Mystery, Concealed, Privy, Hidden, Confidential, Covert, Clandestine
COVERT vs SECRET: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Conniving, Ulterior, Cloaked, Subterranean, Underground, Unrevealed, Disguised, Collusive, Backstairs, Concealment, Furtive, Undercover, Surreptitious, Secret, Clandestine
- Underground, Private, Enigma, Undercover, Unacknowledged, Classified, Mysterious, Surreptitious, Mystery, Concealed, Privy, Hidden, Confidential, Covert, Clandestine
COVERT vs SECRET: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
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- One covert activity is that we were able to sneak prisoners in general population in and out of prison to do covert work.
- Covert vehicle inspection may include the presentation of a fictitious safety equipment repair order written for the purpose of covert investigation.
- The case involved the use of covert surveillance, covert recordings and wiretap evidence obtained from foreign jurisdictions.
- American covert operations and the Israeli covert operations until you understand this secret arrangement.
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- That formula was kept as a trade secret and is still secret today.
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- Trade secret law protects secret, valuable business information from misappropriation by others.
- The secret to a happy marriage is no secret at all.
- These are confidential, secret, top secret and sensitive compartmented information.
- Most importantly, the trade secret must be secret.
- Investigator for the Secret or Top Secret Subject interview.
- Secret to Unclassified, Top Secret to Secret, etc.
- If Cathy runs a program with the label Secret Ace, then the program can read data labeled Unclassified, Secret, or Secret Ace.
- If the secret object contains more than one secret, all secret references are passed.
COVERT vs SECRET: QUESTIONS
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