expose
//ɪkˈspəʊz//
Forms
- present (v1)
- expose
- past (v2)
- exposed
- past participle (v3)
- exposed
- present participle
- exposing
- 3rd person singular
- exposes
Definitions
1.To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light.
- 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.
2.To subject photographic film to light, thereby recording an image.
3.To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance, such as radiation, a chemical, or any other stress.
- Residents were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
4.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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2054
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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.