Oculto in english
pronunciation: hɪdən part of speech: adjective
ocultar = bury ; cover ; disguise ; hide ; obscure ; withhold ; ensconce ; conceal ; mask ; secrete ; tuck away ; dissimulate ; whitewash ; hide out ; blot out ; dissemble ; cache ; screen from + view ; shield from + view ; hide from + view ; cover up.
Example: All of the early works on rock music are buried under the heading for JAZZ, and the early works on linguistics are buried under the heading LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES.Example: Kitano burst out laughing to cover her obvious blushing embarrassment, and she was soon encircled with laughter.Example: But when the other approaches were examined and analyzed with care, it turned out that another 16 percent were disguised subject searches.Example: These complications were not hidden or implicit; they were clearly set out at the beginning of the volume under 'Rules for the Compilation of the Catalog'.Example: A pseudonym is the name assumed by an author to conceal or obscure his or her identity.Example: It was agreed to withhold supplies from booksellers who offered new books at a discount greater than the 10 per cent usually allowed for cash.Example: The foreman ensconced in one of the cages and the master-printer in the other.Example: He merely said, striving to conceal his anger: 'I'll see what I can do'.Example: The categories available for classifying legal problems simply mask the incoherency and indeterminacy of legal doctrine, inhibit the growth of the law and create injustice by causing unequal situations to be treated as if they were equal.Example: Motion picture loops can be expensive and small enough to secrete.Example: It is rumoured to be, at least in part, tucked away in one of the attics of the Science Library, a forgotten monument to a great but unsuccessful idea = It is rumoured to be, at least in part, tucked away in one of the attics of the Science Library, a forgotten monument to a great but unsuccessful idea.Example: He highlights the fact that the amount of time spent lying, dissimulating, and conforming in matters of religious faith was a huge issue in the 16th century.Example: A number of volumes whitewashing this fascist wartime state were published in 2001.Example: It tells the story of a young detective who stumbles across a stash of jewel thieves hiding out in an abandoned house.Example: Las Vegas was once notorious for loose morals, fast living and financial transactions murky enough to blot out the desert sun.Example: On Sunday it was Vice President Cheney who dissembled about the impact of the tax cuts on the federal budget deficit and the relative size of the deficit.Example: Previous studies in which squirrels were provisioned with an abundant supply of food found a reduction in the rate of caching.Example: Pool equipment must be screened from view with landscaping or walls that match the color and finish of the house.Example: The idea that nursing mothers need to be 'shielded from view' may strike breastfeeding advocates as unnecessarily modest.Example: Cigarettes and other tobacco products will now have to be hidden from view in all large shops and supermarkets in England.Example: It hurts Deb to cork up her emotions just as it hurts me to cover up my own troubles.more:
» algo que ocultar = skeleton in the closet [Expresión del inglés americano] ; corpse in the basement ; skeleton in the cupboard [Expresión del inglés británico] .
Example: His article, 'The skeleton in the closet: public libraries art collections suffer appalling losses,' examines the problem of theft and mutilation of art materials in public libraries. Example: Anyone who tries to forget the past is living with a corpse in the basement. Example: It was the skeleton in the cupboard that successive South African leaders desperately tried to keep locked up.» no ocultar las preferencias de Uno sobre Algo = make + no bones about + Algo .
Example: In 1910 John Cotton Dana made no bones about it; indeed he was an early advocate of positive discrimination.» ocultar Algo a = keep + Nombre + a secret from .
Example: To work as a librarian is so terribly respectable that young lady trainees at library school have been known to try to keep their specialism a secret from young men so as not to prejudice their chances of acquiring boyfriends.» ocultar a la vista = hide from + view ; shield from + view ; screen from + view .
Example: Cigarettes and other tobacco products will now have to be hidden from view in all large shops and supermarkets in England. Example: The idea that nursing mothers need to be 'shielded from view' may strike breastfeeding advocates as unnecessarily modest. Example: Pool equipment must be screened from view with landscaping or walls that match the color and finish of the house.» ocultar Algo = sweep + Algo + under the carpet ; sweep + Algo + under the rug .
Example: Even after some employees complained, the management treated the matter as a minor issue and swept it under the carpet. Example: If only we could sweep it under the rug and pretend like it never happened.» ocultar de la vista = hide + Nombre + from view .
Example: It is not a part of the fetlock, but the fetlock hid it from view.» ocultar las cosas = sweep + things under the rug ; sweep + things under the carpet .
Example: 'Spick and Span' is a comedy that examines how individuals cope with death in a society that likes to sweep things under the rug = "De punta en blanco" es una comedia que examina cómo los individuos se enfrentan a la muerte en una sociedad que prefiere ocultar las cosas. Example: The difference between a democratic state and a non-transparent state is that a democratic state does not sweep things under the carpet.» ocultar los sentimientos = disguise feelings ; keep + things (all) bottled up inside ; keep + Posesivo + feelings to + Reflexivo ; keep + Posesivo + feelings (all) bottled up inside ; bottle + Posesivo + feelings up ; hide + Posesivo + feelings ; bottle + things up .
Example: That girl could read me like a book, no matter how hard I tried to disguise my feelings. Example: I tried to keep it all in but sometimes keeping things all bottled up inside is not that good especially if things had been building up for so long. Example: If the handwriting slopes to the left, the person is very good at keeping their feelings to themselves. Example: Instead of showing her anger towards her parents, Jamie continued to keep her feelings bottled up inside of her. Example: Kate was notorious for bottling her feelings up and never letting anyone know what was going on. Example: A woman in love cannot hide her feelings, even if her life depends on it. Example: I tend to bottle things up until I burst out crying for a while, and then my parents have no idea why I'm upset.» ocultar los sentimientos de Uno = bury + Posesivo + feelings .
Example: The most common coping strategies were to bury one's feelings, to concentrate on what to do next, to stand one's ground, and to talk to someone about the problem.» ocultar + Posesivo + identidad = conceal + Posesivo + identity .
Example: A pseudonym is the name assumed by an author to conceal or obscure his or her identity.» ocultar + Posesivo + intenciones = hide + Posesivo + intentions ; play + Posesivo + cards close to + Posesivo + chest ; keep + Posesivo + cards close to + Posesivo + chest .
Example: How long can the empress hide her intentions before the nations enter a needless war?. Example: I too would like more transparency but when the opposition are such wreckers of every policy I can understand why cards are played close to the chest. Example: I think she kept her cards close to her chest, even when Ray asked her about other men she was very cagey and didn't give much away.» ocultarse = go into + hiding .
Example: The three have been jailed for more than two weeks while a fourth journalist went into hiding after receiving a judicial summons.» ocultarse detrás de = hide behind .
Example: There is evidence of a backlash against wireless networks from some faculty who would prefer that students not hide behind their computer screens during class.» tener algo que ocultar = have + a skeleton in the closet [Expresión del inglés americano] ; have + a corpse in the basement ; have + a skeleton in the cupboard [Expresión del inglés británico] .
Example: People who are so adamantly opposed and disgusted by all things gay more often than not have a skeleton in the closet. Example: Anyone who seeks to forget the past has a corpse in the basement. Example: Nearly a third of the population has a 'skeleton in the cupboard' according to new figures revealed in a nationwide survey of 1,000 adults.oculto = veiled ; disguised ; in disguise ; undisclosed ; unrevealed ; buried ; concealed.
Example: The question of ideological thought (in the sense of a veiled interest-determined trend of thought) is again rearing its head in present times.Example: One great danger in budgeting is the problem of disguised needs.Example: The author addresses the question of whether a metadata specialist is really a cataloguer in disguise.Example: These records reveal facts about individuals and business entities that the parties concerned might prefer undisclosed.Example: More than half the paintings in the exhibition represented groups of people watching interesting spectacles, some of which were unrevealed.Example: This new signal processing technique improves the detectability of buried anti-personnel land mines using a ground penetrating radar.Example: More and more of New York's rich and famous are obtaining permits to carry concealed weapons.more:
» cámara oculta = hidden camera .
Example: He then rented a hidden camera and weaseled his way into the private ceremony to take a shot of the singer.» cara oculta, la = dark side, the .
Example: This article 'The dark side of online information dirty data' discusses the problem of product defects (or dirty data) in on-line data bases.» ciencias ocultas, las = occult, the .
Example: In folklore and the occult the evil eye is generally thought to be a sign of trouble.» desempleo oculto = hidden unemployment .
Example: In addition, hidden unemployment & the increase in part-time work complicate the unemployment picture for women.» estar oculto = lie + hidden .
Example: For six years, the torture chamber lay hidden in the cellars of what had once been an orphanage for deaf children.» impuesto oculto = stealth tax .
Example: The inheritance tax is basically a stealth tax -- and once you think about it that way, you begin to realize just how weird, big and downright evil it actually is.» intenciones ocultas = ulterior motives .
Example: From the very beginning I have been hard on him because I didn't trust him -- sometimes biting his head off and others accusing him of having ulterior motives.» intereses ocultos = ulterior motives .
Example: From the very beginning I have been hard on him because I didn't trust him -- sometimes biting his head off and others accusing him of having ulterior motives.» joya oculta = hidden gem ; hidden jewel .
Example: A great hobby to have is to go treasure hunting for hidden gems found in junkyards across North America. Example: Restored and relit in 1998, the Sapelo Lighthouse is a hidden jewel of Georgia's coast.» la cara oculta de = underbelly .
Example: It shows us that the underbelly of human nature and its curiosity for things that are taboo is stronger than any moral or ethical code.» llevar a cabo + Posesivo + intenciones ocultas = carry out + Posesivo + (hidden) agenda .
Example: Richard seeks to expose some of the perfidious practices going on behind the scenes by the cowards who use phoney frontmen to carry out their agenda.» llevar a cabo + Posesivo + intereses ocultos = carry out + Posesivo + (hidden) agenda .
Example: Richard seeks to expose some of the perfidious practices going on behind the scenes by the cowards who use phoney frontmen to carry out their agenda.» lo oculto = the unseen .
Example: Forecasting the weather does not come under the heading of astrology or claiming to have knowledge of the unseen, rather it is based on physical evidence and experience.» lugar oculto = hidden storage place ; secret storage location ; secret storage place ; secret holding location ; secret cell ; hidden cell .
Example: The excavations uncovered a hidden storage place that contained 26 well-preserved statues of kings, queens, and deities. Example: The investigation also uncovered the existence of a secret storage location used since 1990. Example: Her chest has a secret storage place that can hold a heart shaped lip gloss or eyeshadow that comes with the doll. Example: The captured crews were transported to secret holding locations where they were eventually interrogated until they told everything they knew. Example: He was held as a secret prisoner and hidden in a secret cell. Example: What is interesting is that Rowan held her prisoner for 20 years in a hidden cell in what looks like a very crappy hospital.» mantener oculto = keep + Nombre + under wraps ; keep + a (tight) lid on ; keep + Nombre + under + Posesivo + hat ; keep + Nombre + out of sight .
Example: Maybe a whole slew of democrats knew about it and kept it under wraps until it was politically expedient to release it to the media. Example: Thankfully they'd been able to keep a tight lid on the execution date, for fear of too many rubbernecks hanging around the prison. Example: Doug didn't tell anyone about his new job, he kept it under his hat = Dough no le habló a nadie de su nuevo trabajo, lo mantuvo en secreto. Example: To save her own face, she played her last trump, the card which she had hitherto been careful to keep out of sight.» mantener + Posesivo + intenciones ocultas = play + Posesivo + cards close to + Posesivo + chest ; keep + Posesivo + cards close to + Posesivo + chest .
Example: I too would like more transparency but when the opposition are such wreckers of every policy I can understand why cards are played close to the chest. Example: I think she kept her cards close to her chest, even when Ray asked her about other men she was very cagey and didn't give much away.» material oculto = buried material [En una biblioteca o centro de documentación, documentos que no se pueden encontrar generalmente debido a que están mal colocados] .
Example: Perhaps the computer could resolve the dilemma of dead headings vs. buried material.» motivos ocultos = ulterior motives ; hidden agenda .
Example: From the very beginning I have been hard on him because I didn't trust him -- sometimes biting his head off and others accusing him of having ulterior motives. Example: This paper looks at the hidden agendas and values that conflict with the concept of cheap, easy-to-get, comprehensive, accurate information.» no hay nada oculto = what you see is what you get .
Example: Andrew is a musician truly doing it for the love of it, what you see is what you get.» palabra oculta = hidden word .
Example: Since few inverted headings are permitted in a thesaurus there is a need to reveal the hidden words in these pre-coordinated terms if poor search performance is to be avoided.» pasadizo oculto = hidden passageway .
Example: Secret doors and hidden passageways may sound like the stuff of movies and novels but these are for real.» pasaje oculto = hidden passageway .
Example: Secret doors and hidden passageways may sound like the stuff of movies and novels but these are for real.» peligro oculto = hidden danger .
Example: The article is entitled 'The hidden dangers of electronic publishing'.» placer oculto = guilty pleasure [Placer del que no sentimos avergonzados admitir] .
Example: For some folks chocolate is a guilty pleasure, others like candy but mine comes from 1959-1964: The Twilight Zone.» planes ocultos = ulterior motives .
Example: From the very beginning I have been hard on him because I didn't trust him -- sometimes biting his head off and others accusing him of having ulterior motives.» quedar oculto = screen from + view ; shield from + view ; hide from + view .
Example: Pool equipment must be screened from view with landscaping or walls that match the color and finish of the house. Example: The idea that nursing mothers need to be 'shielded from view' may strike breastfeeding advocates as unnecessarily modest. Example: Cigarettes and other tobacco products will now have to be hidden from view in all large shops and supermarkets in England.» sangre oculta en las heces = faecal occult blood .
Example: Faecal occult blood usually is a result of slow (often intermittent) bleeding from inside the upper or lower gastrointestinal tract.» subdivisión jerárquica oculta = hidden link .
Example: Steps of divisions which are not expressed in the class number, and yet constitute part of the chain, are known as 'hidden links' in the chain.» tener intenciones ocultas = push + Posesivo + (personal) agenda ; push + a hidden agenda .
Example: She interrupted other speakers to push her agenda, and failed to keep her answers relevant to the questions. Example: This week the frontline blogosphere has been picking holes in Government policy and wondering whether Ministers are reckless or are pushing a hidden agenda.» tener intereses ocultos = push + Posesivo + (personal) agenda ; push + a hidden agenda .
Example: She interrupted other speakers to push her agenda, and failed to keep her answers relevant to the questions. Example: This week the frontline blogosphere has been picking holes in Government policy and wondering whether Ministers are reckless or are pushing a hidden agenda.» tener motivos ocultos = push + Posesivo + (personal) agenda ; push + a hidden agenda .
Example: She interrupted other speakers to push her agenda, and failed to keep her answers relevant to the questions. Example: This week the frontline blogosphere has been picking holes in Government policy and wondering whether Ministers are reckless or are pushing a hidden agenda.» tener planes ocultos = push + a hidden agenda .
Example: This week the frontline blogosphere has been picking holes in Government policy and wondering whether Ministers are reckless or are pushing a hidden agenda.» término oculto = hidden term [Término que no es el principal de un encabezamiento precoordinado] .
Example: The second and subsequent entries cater for the hidden terms in the first entry.» tesoro oculto = hidden treasure .
Example: Jumble sales are great places to pick up hidden treasures like vintage clothes, designer cast offs and all sorts of quirky bric-a-brac for a fraction of their original price.» web oculta, la = hidden Web, the [Información que, aunque se puede consultar a través de Internet, está contenida en bases de datos particulares y sólo visible en el momento de la búsqueda] .
Example: In particular, the study claims that the size of the 'hidden' web is 500 billion pages, compared to 'only' two billion pages of the ordinary web in 2001.» yacer oculto = lie + hidden .
Example: For six years, the torture chamber lay hidden in the cellars of what had once been an orphanage for deaf children.