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Definition: Undercover |
UndercoverAdjective1. Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: UndercoverSynonyms: clandestine (adj), cloak-and-dagger (adj), hole-and-corner(a) (adj), hugger-mugger (adj), hush-hush (adj), on the quiet(p) (adj), secret (adj), surreptitious (adj), underground (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Behind a screen; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds; invisible; buried, underground, perdu; secluded. |
Warning | Watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse; (indication of locality). sentinel, sentry; watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Undercover |
| English words defined with "undercover": clandestine, cloak-and-dagger ♦ hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush ♦ on the quiet ♦ secret, shoofly, surreptitious ♦ undercover agent, undercover work, underground. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "undercover": DEPUTY SHERIFF, CHIEF, DEPUTY SHERIFF, COMMANDER, CRIMINAL AND PATROL DIVISION, detective, private eye ♦ INVESTIGATOR, NARCOTICS, INVESTIGATOR, PRIVATE, INVESTIGATOR, VICE ♦ MANAGER, INTERNAL SECURITY, morals-squad police officer ♦ narcotics investigator ♦ squad leader ♦ undercover man, undercover operator ♦ vice-squad police officer ♦ watch commander. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I am undercover agent assigned to watch you. (One, Two, Three; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; Billy Wilder) Once you've been with Undercover Brother, there is no other. (Undercover Brother; writing credit: John Ridley;) Ssh! I'm undercover. (Boston Public; writing credit: John Zuur Platten) What, are you undercover or something? (Columbo: Candidate for Crime; writing credit: Larry Cohen; Alvin R. Friedman) | |
Lyrics | Keep it undercover (UNDERCOVER OF THE NIGHT; performing artist: Rolling Stones) Spit tha game undercover (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K) Spend the next two years as an undercover fag ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash) But ya act so undercover (Sweet Thing; performing artist: Mary J. Blige) I'm your angel undercover (Bitch; performing artist: Meredith Brooks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Undercover Scandals of Henry VIII (1970) Undercover Girl (1957) The Undercover Man (1949) Undercover Maisie (1947) The Undercover Woman (1946) | |
Song Titles | Undercover Of The Night (performing artist: Rolling Stones) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The undercover man. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Germany | On December 12, the Berlin Regional Administrative Court held that the Berlin OPC could not employ undercover agents to continue the observation of Scientology's activities in the state of Berlin. (references) |
Human Rights | Jamaica | Jamaicans for Justice reported that undercover police regularly attend its meetings. (references) |
Colombia | Two other investigators working undercover on the case disappeared in mid-April near Berrugas, Sucre department. (references) | |
Political Economy | Cuba | It maintains a pervasive system of surveillance through undercover agents, informers, rapid response brigades (RRB's), and neighborhood-based Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR's). The Government traditionally uses the CDR's to mobilize citizens against dissenters, impose ideological conformity, and root out "counterrevolutionary" behavior. (references) |
Worker Rights | Romania | The law passed in November empowers the Ministry of the Interior to provide protection for victims of trafficking, and undercover operations and electronic surveillance are authorized against traffickers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Undercover" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Undercover" is used about 241 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 241 | 19,264 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "undercover": undercover agent ♦ undercover man ♦ undercover operator ♦ undercover work. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "undercover"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sekret (confidential, hidden, privity, secret), i fshehtë (backdoor, clandestine, close, colorable, colourable, confidential, cryptic, dark, deep, deep-seated, elfish, elvish, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, insidious, internal, latent, occult, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, under the counter, under the table, under wraps, underhand, underhanded, unearthly, veiled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منهمك في التجسس, تجسسي, سري (clandestine, classified, close, closet, confidential, covert, cryptic, discreet, furtive, hugger mugger, hush hush, inmost, low key, mysterious, mystic, occult, off the record, private, privy, sacramental, secret, slinking, stealthy, subterranean, surreptitious, umbilical, underground, underhand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | таен (arcane, backdoor, clandestine, confidential, cryptic, dark, darkling, esoteric, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, inside, mystic, occult, private, privy, recondite, secret, sensitive, sneaking, snug, surreptitious, underground, underhand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tajný (clandestine, classified, confidential, furtive, hole-and-corner, inward, occult, privy, restricted, retired, secret, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, underhand, underhanded, unspoken), špionážní (espial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مخفی (Clandestine, Closet, Hid, Invisible, Secret, Slinky), نهانی (Last, Occult, Potential, Secret, Suberranean, Surreptitious, Underhand), سری (Crypt, Esoteric, Occult), زیرجلی (Clandestine, Surreptitious, Underhand), جاسوس (Informer, Snoop, Spy), رمزی (Allegorical, Cryptic, Esoteric, Figurative, Occult, Runic, Symbolic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | secret, clandestin (underground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | heimlich (clandestine, clandestinely, cryptical, furtive, hidden, inwardly, lurking, privately, quiet, secret, secretive, secretly, sneaking, stealthily, stealthy, stolen, surreptitious, surreptitiously, thievishly, undeclared), geheim- (clandestine, concealed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρυφόσ (covert, furtive, occult, privy, sneaking, surreptitious), μυστικόσ (clandestine, esoteric, hidden, hugger mugger, mystical, private, privy, privy to, secret, suppressible, surreptitious, underground, undisclosed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | titkolt (concealed, covert, privy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | rahasia (confidential, covert, privy, secret), menyamar (disguise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | clandestino (backdoor, black, bootleg, clandestine, stealthy, surreptitious, underground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fo chlea (in private, indoors, privately). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ercoverunday secreto (arcane, backdoor, blind, classified, close, confidential, cryptic, deep, hole-gauge, inn, inner, occult, off season, private, privy parts, sealed, secret, secretive, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, under the table, underhanded), clandestino (backdoor, clandestine, gatecrasher, interloper, surreptitious, under the table, underground, underhanded). (various references) тайный (arcane, backdoor, clandestine, cryptic, dark, esoteric, furtive, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, offscreen, private, privy, quiet, secret, sly, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, under the table, underground, underhand, underhanded). (various references) tajni (backstage, furtive, private, privy, secret, sneaky, stealthy). (various references) subrepticio (surreptitious), clandestino (clandestine, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, underground, underhand). (various references) gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), el altından (by devious means, by stealth, clandestine, clandestinely, hole-and-corner, in secret, on the sly, secretly, slily, sub rosa, surreptitious, under the counter, under the rose, underhand, underhanded). (various references) та"мний (arcane, back door, backstairs, clandestine, close, closet, colorable, colourable, covert, cryptic, esoteric, hideaway, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, invisible, mystic, occult, occulted, offscreen, private, secret, sly, sneaking, stealthy, subterranean, surreptitious). (various references) giấu giếm (clandestine, close, covert, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy), bí mật (backstairs, clandestine, close, cryptic, cryptically, hush-hush, inward, inwards, private, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, underground). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Undercover" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: undrcover. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "undercover" (pronounced u'nderku"ver) |
| 4 | -k u" v er | cover, discover, recover, rediscover, uncover. |
| 3 | -u" v er | Glover, hover, lover, Shover. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-n-o-r-r-u-v" | |
-1 letter: overcured, uncovered. | |
-2 letters: coendure, cornered, devourer, overcure, overrude, recurved, verecund. | |
-3 letters: coenure, covered, coverer, crunode, decurve, encoder, encored, nervure, overdue, overrun, recover, recurve, redrove, reducer, rondure, rounder, runover, uncover, verdure. | |
-4 letters: corder, corned, corner, corvee, cruder, curred, curved, decern, devour, dourer, droner, drover, encode, encore, endure, enduro, enured, nerved, oeuvre, ordure, overed, recode, record. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-n-o-r-r-u-v" | |
+1 letter: unrecovered. | |
+4 letters: overencouraged. | |
+5 letters: nonreproductive, overconstructed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 64 65 72 63 6F 76 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. . .-. -.-. --- ...- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100011 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d e r c o v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 0065 0072 0063 006F 0076 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807071846981887184 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, Arabish, арабский, arapski, árabe, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, Sheckagh, Sheckish, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Indonesian | indonezian, الماليزي أحد أبناء ماليزيا, اللغة الأندونيسية, индонезийски език, индонезийски, indonéština, indonéský, indonésan, indonésien, Indonesier, Ινδονήσιος, indonéz, indonesiano, Indoneesagh, indonésio, indonésia, индонезийский, индонезиец, indonezijski, indonežanin, indonesio, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya, індонезі"ць, індонезійська мова, індонезійський, індонезійка, người In-ddô-nê-xi-a tiếng In-ddô-nê-xi-a | |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Portuguese | tradução, dicionário, definição | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Russian | трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение, словарь, определение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | tumačenje, leksikon, rečnik, definicija | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Spanish | traducción, diccionario, definición | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Turkish | tercüme, sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Ukrainian | процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність | ukrainisht, ukrainas, أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, اهل اوکرانی درکشورشوروی , ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren |
Vietnamese | sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích, có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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