04 October 2006

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share1  [shair] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, shared, shar‧ing.
–noun
1.the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.

2.one of the equal fractional parts into which the capital stock of a joint-stock company or a corporation is divided.

–verb (used with object)
3.to divide and distribute in shares; apportion.

4.to use, participate in, enjoy, receive, etc., jointly: The two chemists shared the Nobel prize.

–verb (used without object)
5.to have a share or part; take part (often fol. by in).

6.to divide, apportion, or receive equally.

se‧cret  [see-krit] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1.done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.

2.kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged: a secret password.

3.faithful or cautious in keeping confidential matters confidential; close-mouthed; reticent.

4.designed or working to escape notice, knowledge, or observation: a secret drawer; the secret police.

5.secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn: a secret hiding place.

6.beyond ordinary human understanding; esoteric.

7.(of information, a document, etc.)
a.bearing the classification secret.

b.limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified.




–noun
8.something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.

9.a mystery: the secrets of nature.

10.a reason or explanation not immediately or generally apparent.

11.a method, formula, plan, etc., known only to the initiated or the few: the secret of happiness; a trade secret.

12.a classification assigned to information, a document, etc., considered less vital to security than top-secret but more vital than confidential, and limiting its use to persons who have been cleared, as by various government agencies, as trustworthy to handle such material. Compare classification (def. 5).

13.(initial capital letter) Liturgy. a variable prayer in the Roman and other Latin liturgies, said inaudibly by the celebrant after the offertory and immediately before the preface.

—Idiom
14.in secret, unknown to others; in private; secretly: A resistance movement was already being organized in secret.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME secrette < OF secret < L sēcrētus hidden, orig. ptp. of sēcernere to secern]


ref1: sharing. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1). Retrieved October 04, 2006, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sharing.

ref2: secret. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1). Retrieved October 04, 2006, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/secret.
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