HIDE

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hide¹ I. substantiv

piele (de animal); (glumeţ) piele de om;

(com.) hides piei uscate;

hide and hair în întregime, complet;

(rar) neither hide nor hair nimic, nici urmă, nici o veste (despre cineva);

to save one’s hide a-şi salva pielea;

(sl.) to curry / to warm / to tan smb.’s hide, to give smb.’s hide a warming a tăbăci pielea cuiva, a burduşi pe cineva în bătaie.

hide¹ II. verb tranzitiv

(fam.) a snopi / a burduşi în bătaie.

hide², past hid, part. trec. hid şi hidden verb A. tranzitiv

a ascunde, a dosi, a tăinui, a ţine deoparte, a disimula;

to hide one’s head a se ascunde, a nu se arăta de ruşine, a-şi ascunde faţa de ruşine.

hide², past hid, part. trec. hid şi hidden verb B. intranzitiv

1. a se ascunde, a se piti;

he that hides can find cine ştie să pitească, ştie să şi găsească.

2. (amer.) to hide out a se ascunde (de poliţie).

hide³ substantiv

(ist.) suprafaţă de pământ pentru o familie (120 acri).

Now I could only answer my father with a look of despair and endeavour to hide myself from his view.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She tried to hide her writing, but she couldn't hide it from Me!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I shall hide this paper in my breast, where they shall find it when they come to lay me out.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Here, in the running stream where ice was beginning to form, he hid his trail.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

It may have been hidden somewhere, and the pair gone off on foot.

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

The results showed the galaxies with hidden black holes are more clumped together than those of the exposed black holes.

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

He paused to gaze at the squat moose-hide sack.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

It is no time for me to hide anything.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What were you about all that time, hidden away there?

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Anne looked down to hide her smile.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)