secret ballot | a vote in which each person's choice is secret but the totaled votes are public |
cryptography coding secret writing steganography | act of writing in code or cipher |
public address system P.A. system PA system P.A. PA | an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas |
savoir-faire address | social skill |
address | the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball |
mystery enigma secret closed book | something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained, how it got out is a mystery, it remains one of nature's secrets |
plot secret plan game | a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal), they concocted a plot to discredit the governor, I saw through his little game from the start |
title title of respect form of address | an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.' or `General', the professor didn't like his friends to use his formal title |
cryptogram cryptograph secret writing | a piece of writing in code or cipher |
cipher cypher cryptograph secret code | a secret method of writing |
address computer address reference | (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored |
secret arcanum | information known only to a special group, the secret of Cajun cooking |
secret | something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on), the combination to the safe was a secret, he tried to keep his drinking a secret |
open secret | something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known, their love affair was an open secret |
trade secret | a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition |
connivance secret approval tacit consent | (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing |
address destination name and address | written directions for finding some location, written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location |
return address | the address of the sender of a letter or parcel indicating where it should be returned if it cannot be delivered |
address | a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described |
address | the manner of speaking to another individual, he failed in his manner of address to the captain |
address speech | the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience, he listened to an address on minor Roman poets |
Gettysburg Address | a three-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg (November , ) |
inaugural address inaugural | an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) |
keynote speech keynote address | a speech setting forth the keynote |
nominating speech nominating address nomination | an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election, the nomination was brief and to the point |
salutatory address salutatory oration salutatory | an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) |
valediction valedictory address valedictory oration valedictory | a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) |
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ASALA Orly Group rd October Organization | a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in , wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia, ASALA bombing at Orly Airport in Paris in killed and wounded people |
secret police | a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition) |
secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers |
Secret Intelligence Service MI Military Intelligence Section | the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas |
United States Secret Service US Secret Service USSS Secret Service SS | the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors, detects and apprehends counterfeiters, suppresses forgery of government securities and documents |
address | the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with |
mailing address | the address where a person or organization can be communicated with |
street address | the address where a person or organization can be found |
business address | the address at which a business is located |
secret agent intelligence officer intelligence agent operative | a person secretly employed in espionage for a government |
address | adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting |
address turn to | speak to, He addressed the crowd outside the window |
address speak | give a speech to, The chairman addressed the board of trustees |
address accost come up to | speak to someone |
address direct | put an address on (an envelope) |
re-address | put a new address on (an envelope), as for forwarding |
cover treat handle plow deal address | act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression, This book deals with incest, The course covered all of Western Civilization, The new book treats the history of China |
address | direct a question at someone |
address | address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question |
address | access or locate by address |
address call e | greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name, He always addresses me with `Sir', Call me Mister, She calls him by first name |
unavowed secret | not openly made known, a secret marriage, a secret bride |
secret | the next to highest level of official classification for documents |