private
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English privat(e) (“individual, exclusive, private”), from Latin prīvātus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from, release”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“to bereave, deprive, release”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more), from prīvus (“private, one's own, proper”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine. Doublet of privy.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more private
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most private
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: privates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: privates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: privating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: privated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: privated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Belonging or pertaining to an individual person, group of people, or entity that is not the state.
pos: adj
examples: In some countries, healthcare is provided by both the government and private companies.
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms.
gloss: Relating to an individual or group of individuals outside of their official roles; often, sensitive or personal.
pos: adj
examples: This book is her private journal.
It was a very private thing, they felt, and not to be tossed indiscriminately about.
Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
gloss: Not publicly known or divulged; secret, confidential; (of a message) intended only for a specific person or group.
pos: adj
examples: The identity of the beneficiaries of the trust is private.
The key point in the original article was that the relationship with the woman, named “Colette,” came to light because Aupetit had sent a private letter meant for her to his secretary instead.
gloss: Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded; not publicly accessible.
pos: adj
examples: Can we go somewhere more private?
I invited him to take breakfast with me; he accepted the invitation, and told me he would tell me about himself when we were in a more private place.
gloss: Not in governmental office or employment.
pos: adj
examples: Military secrets should not be entrusted to unreliable private individuals.
gloss: Secretive; reserved.
pos: adj
examples: He is a very private person.
gloss: Not traded by the public.
pos: adj
examples: private equity
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
gloss: Of a room in a medical facility, not shared with another patient.
pos: adj
gloss: Financially reliant on fees rather than government funding.
pos: adj
tags: UK
gloss: Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of the mind or language, not in principle experienceable, knowable, or understandable by others.
pos: adj
gloss: A soldier of the lowest rank in the army.
pos: noun
gloss: A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care.
pos: noun
examples: In the cities and towns of California, privates are pressuring county governments to close or reduce in size their hospitals and to pay private hospitals for the care of low-income patients. Thus everything is stacked against public hospitals.
Because you are already moving people with the limitations of what we did in 1982 on the capping of Medicare, you are finding out that the privates are picking up that slack, […]
gloss: The genitals.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
in-plural
gloss: A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The Count Meloone, a Noble Lord of France,
Whose priuate with me of the Dolphines loue,
s much more generall, then these lines import.
gloss: Personal interest; particular business.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Nor must I be unmindful of my private.
gloss: Privacy; retirement.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Go off, I diſcard you: let me enioy my priuate: go off.
gloss: One not invested with a public office.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: And what haue Kings, that Priuates haue not too,[…]
gloss: A private lesson.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates.
gloss: To make something hidden from the public (without deleting it permanently).
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: During these negotiations, however, the Kleins say that Hosseinzadeh issued a copyright takedown for the video — even after it had already been privated.
Shay has also since briefly returned to social media, making a quick post on Instagram. His account was privated following his scandal in February and his Twitter remains inactive.
"[…] IOI had no part in privating the subreddit, this was entirely the decision of the moderators, and we are just fellow fans like you who volunteer our time to help out," a moderator wrote.
“Must be hard being a one-hit wonder,” a follower negged me once. “Actually, yes,” I joked in a now-privated video response. “Thank you for noticing.”
Antonyms: public
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