expose

See also: exposé and Exposé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). The Latin term is also the origin of English expound, via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspəʊz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspoʊz/, /ɛkˈspoʊz/

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• Rhymes: -əʊz

Verb

expose (third-person singular simple present exposes, present participle exposing, simple past and past participle exposed)

1. (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     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. (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
3. (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
   • 1893, Fridtjof Nansen, Eskimo Life, page 152:

     This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.

4. 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.
5. (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
   • 2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ Gems (page 266)

     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

• (to reveal [a hidden aspect of one's character]): bewray
• (to remove clothing; bare): nake

Derived terms

• expose oneself
• exposure

Translations

to reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to

• Bulgarian: откривам (bg) (otkrivam), разкривам (bg) (razkrivam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 揭露 (zh) (jiēlù), 暴露 (zh) (bàolù), 露出 (zh) (lùchū)

• Czech: vystavit, odhalit pf
• Dutch: zichtbaar maken, blootleggen (nl)
• Finnish: paljastaa (fi)
• French: exposer (fr), dénoncer (fr)
• German: aufdecken (de), offenbaren (de), entblößen (de), bloßlegen, enttarnen (de)
• Greek: αποκαλύπτω (el) (apokalýpto), εκθέτω (el) (ekthéto)
• Hiligaynon: abansáda
• Indonesian: papar (id)
• Japanese: 晒す (さらす, sarasu), 暴く (あばく, abaku), 暴露する (ばくろする, bakuro-surú)

• Malay: dedah
• Maore Comorian: uv̄enua (uvenua)
• Maori: rakorako, whakaari, hura, whakapūangiangi (to the wind)
• Ngazidja Comorian: upvenua
• Polish: odsłonić (pl), ukazać (pl)
• Portuguese: expor (pt), revelar (pt)
• Romanian: expune (ro)
• Russian: выставля́ть (ru) (vystavljátʹ), раскрыва́ть (ru) (raskryvátʹ), обнажа́ть (ru) (obnažátʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: foillsich, rùisg
• Spanish: exponer (es), revelar (es), descubrir (es), exhibir (es)
• Swahili: kufunua
• Swedish: blottlägga (sv)

to subject photographic film to light

• Bulgarian: експонирам (eksponiram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 曝光 (zh) (pùguāng)

• Czech: exponovat
• Dutch: blootstellen (nl)
• Finnish: valottaa (fi)
• French: exposer (fr)
• Greek: εκθέτω (el) (ekthéto)

• Japanese: 露光させる (ろこうさせる, rokō-saseru)
• Polish: naświetlić (pl)
• Portuguese: expor (pt)
• Romanian: expune (ro)
• Russian: де́лать вы́держку (délatʹ výderžku)
• Scottish Gaelic: nochd
• Spanish: exponer (es)
• Swedish: exponera (sv)

to submit to an active substance

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} esporre (it)

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} exponere

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spoz/

Verb

expose

1. first-person singular present indicative of exposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of exposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of exposer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of exposer
5. second-person singular imperative of exposer