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# secretion

noun (a secretion, secretions; secretion — uncountable as a process)

«secretion» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A liquid that a living thing makes and lets out, such as saliva, sweat, tears, mucus or sap. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#m1)
2. The process of making and releasing such a liquid. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons about the body and animals, secretions do jobs: saliva starts digestion, sweat cools us, tears clean eyes, snail slime helps it move, spiders secrete silk. It tells the reader something is produced by glands. Phrases: the secretion of saliva, sticky secretions.

### Examples

- Saliva is a secretion from glands in your mouth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x1)
- Sweat is a secretion that helps cool your body. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x2)
- The snail left a trail of sticky secretion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x3)
- Some frogs have poisonous skin secretions. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x4)
- Bees make wax from a secretion of their bodies. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x5)
- The secretion of tears keeps your eyes clean. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/#x6)

### Note

Countable for the liquid (secretions), uncountable for the process. Verb: secrete (to produce a liquid). Trap: "secrete" also can mean "hide", and "secretion" sounds like "secret" but has nothing to do with secrets here.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «secretion» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/secretion/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«secretion» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/secretion.html) on Mova free.