different between private vs unsee

English

Etymology

From Latin pr?v?tus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from”), perfect passive participle of pr?v? (“I bereave, deprive”), from pr?vus (“private, one's own, peculiar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?a?v?t/, /?p?a?v?t/
• Hyphenation: pri?vate

Adjective

private (comparative more private, superlative most private)

1. Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
2. Not accessible by the public.

3. Not in governmental office or employment.
4. Not publicly known; not open; secret.
5. Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.

6. Not traded by the public.
7. Secretive; reserved.

8. (US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.
9. (not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.

Synonyms

• (done in the view of others): secluded
• (intended only for one's own use): personal
• (not accessible by the public):
• (not publicly known): secret

Antonyms

• public

Hyponyms

• package-private

Translations

Noun

private (plural privates)

1. A soldier of the lowest rank in the army.
2. A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care.
   • 1973, Health/PAC Bulletin (issues 48-67, page 2)

     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.

   • 1993, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs, The implementation of employer sanctions: Hearings

     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, […]

3. (euphemistic, in the plural) The genitals.
4. (obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
5. (obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.

   • Nor must I be unmindful of my private.

6. (obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
7. (obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
8. (usually in the plural) A private lesson.

Synonyms

• (genitals): bits, private parts

Translations

Derived terms

References

• private at OneLook Dictionary Search
• private in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "private" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 242.
• private in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Esperanto

Etymology

From privata (“private”) +? -e (adverbial ending).

Adverb

private

1. privately

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t?

Adjective

private

1. inflection of privat:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

private

1. feminine plural of privato

Verb

private

1. feminine plural past participle of privare
2. second-person plural indicative present of privare
3. second-person plural imperative of privare

Anagrams

• prative

Latin

Verb

pr?v?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pr?v?

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

private

1. definite singular of privat
2. plural of privat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

private

1. definite singular of privat
2. plural of privat

Swedish

Adjective

private

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of privat.

English

Etymology

un- +? see

Verb

unsee (third-person singular simple present unsees, present participle unseeing, simple past unsaw, past participle unseen)

1. To undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something.
   • 1829, Robert Taylor, "Infidel Mission.—Fifteenth Bulletin", in The Lion, volume IV, number 10, page 304:

     We have shown the world, and it cannot be unseen, it cannot be unknown, it cannot be forgotten, that Christianity cannot be defended on any ground where Infidelity can get an inch of fair play against it.

   • 1897 March 20, George Bernard Shaw, "Shakespeare in Manchester", printed in 1906, Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw,^[sic] Volume 2, Brentano's (1922), page 215:

     I have only seen the performance once; and I would not unsee it again if I could; but none the less I am a broken man after it.

   • 1969, Joseph McElroy, Hind's Kidnap, page 180:

     once you’ve seen this you bear always the burden of its sight. And, as Laura says, you can’t unsee it.

   • 1977, Stephen King, The Shining:

     Once you saw the face of a god in those jumbled blacks and whites, it was everybody out of the pool—you could never unsee it.

   • 1991, E. Roy Weintraub, Stabilizing Dynamics, page 94:

     Once one has “seen” the well-known gestalt psychology drawing of the young woman in a fur coat, she cannot be “unseen” after one notices the alternative, an old crone

Translations

See also

• what has been seen cannot be unseen

Anagrams

• ensue, seuen