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What (who) is hiding - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Hiding (disambiguation)
hiding
(hidings)
1.
If someone is in hiding, they have secretly gone somewhere where they cannot be seen or found.
Gray is thought to be in hiding near the France/Italy border...
The duchess is expected to come out of hiding to attend the ceremony.
N-UNCOUNT: prep N
2.
If you give someone a hiding, you punish them by hitting them many times. (INFORMAL)
= beating
N-COUNT
3.
If you say that someone who is trying to achieve something is on a hiding to nothing, you are emphasizing that they have absolutely no chance of being successful. (BRIT INFORMAL)
As regards commercial survival, a car manufacturer capable of making only 50,000 cars a year is on a hiding to nothing.
PHRASE: v-link PHR [emphasis]
Wikipedia
Hiding
Hiding is obscuring something from view or rendering it inconspicuous. It may refer to:
- Hiding (programming), of inherited methods in object-oriented computer programming
- Hiding (TV series), a 2015 Australian television series
- Christoffer Hiding (born 1985), a Swedish singer
- Information hiding, in computer science, the hiding of design decisions in a computer program
Examples of use of hiding
1. In hiding Hirsi Ali went into hiding in 2004 after Van Gogh‘s death.
2. "The PKK were hiding the same way we were hiding, but warned us beforehand that our village may be shelled.
3. Countries that are hiding cases are hiding a problem, and if you do not know the problem you will die.
4. "Militants hiding in a house fired indiscriminately.
5. Soldiers warned civilians against hiding the fugitives.