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# secretion

«secretion» in Mova's school dictionary: **A liquid that a living thing makes and lets out, such as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a secretion, secretions; secretion — uncountable as a process)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A liquid that a living thing makes and lets out, such as saliva, sweat, tears, mucus or sap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#m1)

2) The process of making and releasing such a liquid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the body and animals, secretions do jobs: saliva starts digestion, sweat cools us, tears clean eyes, snail slime helps it move, spiders secrete silk. It tells the reader something is produced by glands. Phrases: the secretion of saliva, sticky secretions.

### examples

- Saliva is a secretion from glands in your mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x1)
- Sweat is a secretion that helps cool your body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x2)
- The snail left a trail of sticky secretion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x3)
- Some frogs have poisonous skin secretions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x4)
- Bees make wax from a secretion of their bodies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x5)
- The secretion of tears keeps your eyes clean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x6)

### note

Countable for the liquid (secretions), uncountable for the process. Verb: secrete (to produce a liquid). Trap: "secrete" also can mean "hide", and "secretion" sounds like "secret" but has nothing to do with secrets here.

### Trees and pragmatics

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