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# hide

«hide» in Mova's school dictionary: **to put something where it cannot be seen or found** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (hide, hides, hid, hidden, hiding); noun (hide, hides)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To hide means to put something where it cannot be seen or found. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#m1)

2) To hide is also to go where others cannot see or find you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#m2)

3) To hide a feeling is to keep it secret. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#m3)

4) A hide is an animal's skin, used to make leather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#m4)

5) A hide is also a small hut where people watch birds without being seen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: things hidden and found: the hidden ones are part of the total: hidden = total − found; each box with the same number makes a rate. In games: hide-and-seek. In science: animals hide using camouflage. Safety: never hide in fridges, car boots or places you cannot get out of. Phrases: hide-and-seek, hide away, in hiding, hide from, hidden treasure.

### examples

- She hid 12 eggs; the kids found 9. How many are still hidden? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#x1)
- Tom hides 3 coins in each box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#x2)
- 5 cats hide under the bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#x3)
- How many did he hide in all? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#x4)
- Let us play hide-and-seek. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#x5)
- The pirates hid the treasure on an island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#x6)
- The chameleon hides by changing colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#x7)
- He tried to hide his tears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#x8)
- We watched the ducks from the bird hide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#x9)
- Or is it his wrinkled hide? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/#x10)

### note

Irregular verb: hide, hid, hidden. Hidden = total − found. Each box with the same number makes a rate. Trap: «hid 3 in each of 4 boxes» means 12 in all.

### In the corpora

- [Most people think tiny kind lies are OK, but big lies that hurt people or hide important things are not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/9/)
- [Everyone makes mistakes; owning up quickly makes them easier to fix, while hiding them tends to make them bigger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/16/)
- [People change jobs and move all the time; not every leaving hides a secret.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/23/)
- [Keeping a wedding private by choice is not the same as hiding something bad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/20/)
- [Shouting would only teach a child to hide things, so good parents try hard not to.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hide» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hide/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.