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herd aphids for the substance they secrete. The wound will
secrete pus for a while.
secretion n. secreting, release, escape, oozing, seeping, seepage,
discharge, discharging, leak, leaking, leakage, drip, dripping,
drop, dropping, dribbling, trickling, trickle, running, drain,
draining, emission, emitting, giving off, exudation,
transudation, excretion, excreting, emanation, emanating,
generation, Technical extravasation; transudate, excreta,
Technical extravasate: The secretion of perspiration may be
profuse under such circumstances. The secretion is highly acid
in content.
secretive adj. reticent, silent, close-mouthed, taciturn,
uncommunicative, reserved, tight-lipped, close, Colloq mum:
Robert is very secretive about where he goes every day at
lunch-time.
secretly adv. surreptitiously, quietly, privately, covertly, on the q.t.
or Q.T., furtively, stealthily, mysteriously, clandestinely, in
secret, confidentially, on the sly, slyly, sub rosa, sub
sigillo: I can tell you secretly that she is wanted by the
police. Henry secretly rents videotape cartoons to watch at
weekends.
sect n. 1 religious order or group or denomination or body or cult
or persuasion or subdivision: At times it seems as if there are
as many sects as worshippers. 2 school (of thought), faction,
ism, set, clique, cabal: He belonged to a small sect that
promulgated the Ptolemaic cosmogony.
sectarian adj. 1 cultist, cultish, clannish, cliquish, partisan, partial,
dogmatic, doctrinaire, factional: They seldom mingle with
others, maintaining their sectarian existence. 2 parochial,
narrow, narrow-minded, limited, insular, provincial, rigid,
fanatic(al), prejudicial, prejudiced, bigoted: Because they
refused to consider ideas other than their own, they gradually
became more and more sectarian in their views.
--n. 3 adherent, member, sectary, votary, cultist, partisan:
They tried to banish Anabaptists, Lutherans, Calvinists, and
other sectarians. 4 (true) believer, dogmatist, fanatic, bigot,
zealot, extremist, Slang nut, bug, fiend: Some of the