hiding

Definition of hiding in English English dictionary: A state of concealment; A place of concealment; A beating or spanking; Present participle of hide; A flogging; The ability of a coating to obscure the surface to which it is applied; The ability of a paint to obscure the surface to which it is applied; If someone is in hiding, they have secretly gone somewhere where they cannot be seen or found. Gray is thought to be in hiding near the France/Italy border The duchess is expected to come out of hiding to attend the ceremony; The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment; the activity of keeping something secret; emphasis If you say that someone who is trying to achieve something is on a hiding to nothing, you are emphasizing that they have absolutely no chance of being successful. As regards commercial survival, a car manufacturer capable of making only 50,000 cars a year is on a hiding to nothing; using encapsulation to hide the implementation of a program or data, so that it can only be accessed through a public interface; {i} hiding place; concealment, act of hiding something; act of hiding oneself; lashing, flogging; Esgal; Making a window invisible; If you give someone a hiding, you punish them by hitting them many times. = beating
hiding place: a place where something or someone may be safely hidden
hiding places: plural form of hiding place
hiding to nothing: A situation in which victory has little or no value, but defeat has a huge cost
hiding oneself: concealing oneself in a place where one cannot be found
hiding place: A hiding place is a place where someone or something can be hidden, or where they are hiding. a place where you can hide or where you can hide something
hiding place: a place suitable for hiding something (such as yourself)
hiding place: hideout, place for concealing objects or oneself
good hiding: A severe thrashing or beating
hide: To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight
hide: To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight
The blind man, whom he had not been able to cure with the pomade, had gone back to the hill of Bois-Guillaume, where he told the travellers of the vain attempt of the druggist, to such an extent, that Homais when he went to town hid himself behind the curtains of the Hirondelle to avoid meeting him.
hide: (mainly British) A covered structure from which hunters, birdwatchers, etc can observe animals without scaring them
hide: The skin of an animal
hide: A medieval land measure equal to the amount of land that could sustain one free family; usually 100 acres. Forty hides equalled a barony
hide: {n} the skin of an animal, a measure of land
hide: {v} to lie or be concealed, conceal, cover, withdraw, from sight
hide: To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete
hide: be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety; "Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding"; "She is hiding out in a cabin in Montana
hide: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
hide: {f} place out of sight, conceal, cover up; keep secret; conceal oneself
hide: Flip a coin If heads, during your opponent's next turn, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon Pokémon with this attack: Oddish L7
hide: A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres
hide: To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight or observation
hide: If you hide what you feel or know, you keep it a secret, so that no one knows about it. Lee tried to hide his excitement
hide: The 'Hide' button puts the program into the background Highlighting a word in any application and pressing a pre-defined hot key (<ctrl><Fn><L> by default) brings LittleSense to the foreground and looks up the highlighted word The hot key can be changed from the menu if required This worked well in all of the built in applications and also allowed words to be passed between LittleSense and Spell VReader5 doesn't allow a single word to be highlighted which is a shame as I never have been able to read H G Wells without resorting to a dictionary occasionally! Copying a screen of VReader5 text to Word and highlighting the required word works OK
hide: the opposite of load
hide: The whole pelt of a large, mature animal (horse, cattle, etc ) in contrast to the term "skin," - the pelt of young or small animals
hide: measurement of land for taxation purposes, between 60 and 120 acres
hide: A hide is the skin of a large animal such as a cow, horse, or elephant, which can be used for making leather. the process of tanning animal hides. = skin see also hidden, hiding. An old English measure of land, usually the amount held adequate for one free family and its dependents
hide: An abode or dwelling
hide: To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing
hide: Another name for a carucate The Dictionary of Genealogy gives a hide as being between 90 and 120 acres BUT the same book gives a carucate as being between 120 and 180 acres although the two names are cross referenced
hide: cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery"
hide: If you hide or if you hide yourself, you go somewhere where you cannot easily be seen or found. At their approach the little boy scurried away and hid They hid themselves behind a tree
hide: To remove from danger; to shelter
hide: Old English unit of area usually equal to 120 acres
hide: an area of land (varies in acreage depending on location)
hide: If something hides an object, it covers it and prevents it from being seen. The man's heavy moustache hid his upper lip completely
hide: A unit of land measurement, usually considered 120 acres One has to be careful, since in early times the exact measurement of land was not considered important, but rather how hard it was to work See Virgata
hide: body covering of a living animal the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal) prevent from being seen or discovered; "Muslim women hide their faces"; "hide the money"
hide: When clicked on by the Left Mouse Button, all selected polygons will be hidden from view When clicked on by the Right Mouse Button, all polygons will be hidden except for the selected polygons
hide: To flog; to whip
hide: {f} beat seriously; whip, flog, thrash
hide: A hide is a place which is built to look like its surroundings. Hides are used by people who want to watch or photograph animals and birds without being seen by them
hide: The human skin; so called in contempt
hide: The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc
hide: body covering of a living animal
hide: the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
hide: {i} skin of an animal; person's skin (Slang); concealed place, hiding place; measure of land (in Old English times)
hide: If you hide your face, you press your face against something or cover your face with something, so that people cannot see it. She hid her face under the collar of his jacket and she started to cry
hide: If you hide something or someone, you put them in a place where they cannot easily be seen or found. He hid the bicycle in the hawthorn hedge They could see that I was terrified, and hid me until the coast was clear. = conceal
hide: Used in a NickServ command to keep specified info secluded from individuals /msg NickServ SET HIDE <ALL|EMAIL|URL|ADDR|QUIT> <ON|OFF>
hide: To place an application in the background This is done in the Applications menu
hide: Barrier, hut, or tent used by natural history photographers to conceal themselves
hide: prevent from being seen or discovered; "Muslim women hide their faces"; "hide the money"
hide: Reduce a row's height to zero
in hiding: in a concealed place