HIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hiding mean? 

• HIDING (noun)
  The noun HIDING has 2 senses:

1. the activity of keeping something secret

2. the state of being hidden

  Familiarity information: HIDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of keeping something secret

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

concealing; concealment; hiding

Hypernyms ("hiding" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hiding"):

camouflage; disguise (the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance)

mask (activity that tries to conceal something)

cover; covering; masking; screening (the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it)

cover (a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent))

cover-up (concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public)

burial; burying (concealing something under the ground)

smoke screen; smokescreen (an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure)

stealing; stealth (avoiding detection by moving carefully)

money laundering (concealing the source of illegally gotten money)

Derivation:

hide (make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of being hidden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

he went into hiding

Hypernyms ("hiding" is a kind of...):

concealment; privacy; privateness; secrecy (the condition of being concealed or hidden)

 Context examples 

I made up my mind that the fellow was in hiding in the house.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She could say no more; her spirits were quite overcome, and hiding her face on Elinor's shoulder, she burst into tears.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She shook down her hair, and it fell about her in a brown cloud, hiding her face and shoulders.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It may be that it was frightened and made its way on to the moors, where it is still hiding in terror.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was thought to have gone, but he was hiding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But she made me swear, first, never to reveal the hiding- place; and I never have.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Though the halos themselves would not be responsible for hiding the black holes, they could be a clue about what is occurring.

(NASA's WISE findings poke hole in black hole 'Doughnut' theory, NASA)

“He is in hiding somewhere, for he knew well, black paynim as he is, that our horses' four legs could outstrip his two.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An international team of researchers has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland.

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

The team at the Deep Carbon Observatory detailed several "transformational discoveries" that reveal what kinds of life exist in the subterrestrial world — and how much is hiding down there.

(Researchers Create New Model of Ecosystem Hidden Beneath Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)