Node vs Secret - What's the difference?
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A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
(astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from S to N and N to S. The respective symbols are .
(botany) A stem node.
(computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
(medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
(technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
(countable, uncountable) Knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= * Rambler
(uncountable) Something not understood or known.
* Milton
(archaic, in the plural) The genital organs.
Being or kept hidden.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxix. 29
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (obsolete) Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
* Fenton
(obsolete) Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Separate; distinct.
* Cudworth
To make or keep secret.
* 1984 , Peter Scott Lawrence,
* 1986 ,
* 1994 , Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara,
Tagged as ''obsolete''. Notes: “In the inflected forms it is not easy to distinguish between ?''secret'' and [http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50218071 secrete ''v. ” * “
'''Se"cret (?), v. t. To keep secret. [Obs. ''Bacon .
As an abbreviation node
is .As a noun secret is
(countable|uncountable) knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.As an adjective secret is
being or kept hidden.As a verb secret is
to make or keep secret.node
English
(wikipedia node)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* acnode * crunode * hardware node * leaf-node * tacnodeSynonyms
* (computer networking) host * (graph theory) vertexSee also
* neurodeAnagrams
* ----secret
English
Noun
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets , spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
- To tell our secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery.
- All secrets of the deep, all nature's works.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* family secret * in secret * keep secret * open secret * Oxford secret * secretist * state secret * top secret * trade secret * Victoria's SecretAdjective
(en adjective)- The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us.
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}
- secret in her sapphire cell
- Secret Romans, that have spoke the word, / And will not palter.
- They suppose two other divine hypostases superior thereunto, which were perfectly secret from matter.
Alternative forms
* secrette (obsolete)Synonyms
* private * dern * confidential * concealedAntonyms
* overtDerived terms
* secret admirer * secret agent * secret ballot * secret code * secret partner * secret police * * secret Santa * secret service * secret society * secret writing * secretive * secretly * secretness * unsecretVerb
Around the mulberry tree, Firefly Books, p. 26
- [...] she would unfold the silk, press it with a smooth wooden block that she'd heated in the oven, and then once more secret it away.
InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.
- Diskless workstations [...] make it difficult for individuals to copy information [...] onto a diskette and secret it away.
Monks and magicians: religious biographies in Asia, Mosaic Press, p. 50
- To prevent the elixir from reaching mankind and thereby upsetting the balance of the universe, two gods secret it away.
Usage notes
* All other dictionaries label this sense 'obsolete', but the citations above and on the citations page demonstrate recent usage as part of the idiom "secret [something] away". * The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are liable to confusion with the corresponding heteronymous forms of the similar verb secrete.Quotations
*Derived terms
* secreteReferences
* “†?secret, v.'']” listed in the '''' [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Tagged as ''obsolete''. Notes: “In the inflected forms it is not easy to distinguish between ?''secret'' and [http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50218071 secrete ''v. ” * “
Se"cret' (?), v. t.]” listed on [http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.page.sh?page=1301 page 1,301]of '''' (1913)
'''Se"cret (?), v. t. To keep secret. [Obs. ''Bacon .