Synonym: detect, discern, observe, see, sight, spot, view. Similar words: say, sec., any, bay, boy, buy, by, day. Meaning: [spaɪ] n. 1. (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors 2. a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people. v. 1. catch sight of 2. watch, observe, or inquire secretly 3. secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage.
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181) This is a particularly young spy because his dad is lifting him up so he can get his chin onto the chin rest here.
182) One of the best-known honey traps in spy history involves Mata Hari, a Dutch woman who had spent some years as an erotic dancer in Java.
183) "Accidents happened all the time," the historian says. "That's one of the challenges of being a spy or case officer."
184) Leaked U. S. diplomatic cables show that the United States and Germany allegedly are developing together a spy satellite system despite strong opposition from countries such as France.
185) Allegedly part of an 11-person Russian spy ring, Chapman regularly passed secrets to a Russian government official and was picked up in an FBI sting operation.
186) He is in fact Sir John Sawers, diplomat and spy, currently the British ambassador to the United Nations and soon to be the chief of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service.
187) Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt star in this dashing spy thriller set in Sweden during the First World War. Sentencedict.com
188) One built-in tool of XML Spy that felt like actual magic was its automatic DTD/schema generation.
189) "The Jordanian and American intelligence services offered me millions of dollars to work with them and spy on mujahadeen here," he said.
190) Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a dream snatcher. He's an industrial spy, who steals secrets when his victims are at their most defenceless: when they are asleep, and dreaming.
191) Tokyo yesterday announced planes to develop its first spy satellite in response to the North Korean missile threat.
192) Spy expert Henry S. A. Becket writes that some germen spies worked in London during the war also worked for the British.
193) The navy may have to wait another day before launching a heat-seeking missile to shoot down a spy satellite.
194) The spy is shy of taking shelter on the shelf of the shell-like shed.
195) Not surprisingly, China's test of an antisatellite weapon in January 2007 – followed by the US Navy's downing of a crippled US spy satellite in February – chilled cooperative overtures.
196) He established a spy ring in 1780 to reveal that Major General Benedict Arnold was a traitor.
197) Last year, India put an Italian satellite in space for a fee of $11 million. Earlier this year, it launched an Israeli spy satellite.
198) In our fantasy life we court paranoia, lapping up 8 crime thrillers and spy novels.
199) Iran also occasionally claims to have evidence of involvement by Israel's Mossad spy agency and British intelligence.
200) As a "Mongolian spy odd-job man", serving in the Japanese Army and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was engaged in spy activities in Mongolia.
201) The Taiwanese spy network is believed to be still active in Burma, particularly in Rangoon, Mandalay, Myitkyina, Lashio and in border towns.
202) A government "sanitation" team uses heavy equipment, including bulldozers and cranes, to remove all traces of the A-12 spy plane from a 1963 crash site in the Utah desert.
203) From a typeless XML document, XML Spy can do a remarkably good job of inferring the underlying DTD (and creating and attaching it).
204) Now, Pressel is free to speak about his life's work: designing cameras for a top-secret U.S. government spy satellite.
205) Ever since Ian Fleming began penning his James Bond series in 1953, spy adventures and espionage have been hot topics for cinema and television.
206) Given that hundreds of thousands of people had access to the cables, the sensitive stuff will already be in the hands of many a spy service.
207) Looking just as snazzy as his teacher, Glee's prep school spy plays the part – and dashingly!
208) "This is the opposite of a spy satellite, " Brender said in a phone interview. "Spies don't put info on the internet and sell imagery.
209) Pressel says he never expected to come to America, much less become an engineer on a top-secret American spy satellite.
210) Earlier this year, India launched an Israeli spy satellite into space.