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expose

verb
/ɪkˈspəʊz/UK/ɪkˈspoʊz/US

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.

  1. derived from espondre — “to set forth, explain”
  2. derived from expōnō — “set forth”
  3. derived from exposer — “to lay open, set forth”
  4. inherited from exposen

Definitions

  1. To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).

    • 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.

  2. To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.

  3. To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.

    • This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine,…

      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.

    2. To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

      • 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.

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Derived

autoexpose, coexpose, exposable, exposal, exposé, expose oneself, exposition, exposome, exposure, hyperexpose, overexpose, photoexpose, reexpose, underexpose

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at expose. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at expose. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at expose

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA