expose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English exposen, from Old French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expone and expound (via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”)), from the same Latin term.
Inflected forms:
form: exposes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exposing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exposed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exposed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: expose
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: expose
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: exposed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: expose
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: exposest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: exposed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: exposedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: exposes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exposeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: exposed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: expose
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: exposed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: expose
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: exposed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: expose
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: exposing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exposed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive.
Many supporters believed Donald Trump would finally expose government cover-ups once he returned to power. But more than six months into his new term, those much-hyped conspiracy theories have either been debunked or quietly fallen apart.
gloss: To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.
gloss: To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
pos: verb
gloss: To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the OO world, the word is to hide the structure of the data, and expose only functionality. OO designers expose an object to the world in terms of the services it provides.
Synonyms: bewray
undress
nake
reveal
Derived words: autoexpose
coexpose
exposable
exposal
exposé
expose oneself
exposition
exposome
exposure
hyperexpose
overexpose
photoexpose
reexpose
underexpose
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