Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To expose to view, as by removing a cover; uncover.
- transitive verb To make known (something heretofore kept secret).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To uncover; lay open; remove a cover from and expose to view.
- To cause to appear; allow to be seen; bring to light; make known; reveal, either by indication or by speech: as, events have disclosed the designs of the government; to disclose a plot.
- . To open; hatch.
- Synonyms To unveil, unfold, discover.
- To divulge, communicate, confess, betray.
- To burst open, as a flower; unclose.
- Unclosed; open; made public.
- noun Disclosure; discovery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of
to hatch . - transitive verb To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.
- transitive verb To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal.
- transitive verb To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose.
- noun obsolete Disclosure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To
open up ,unfasten . - verb transitive To
uncover , physicallyexpose toview . - verb transitive To expose to the
knowledge of others; to makeknown , state openly, reveal. - noun obsolete A
disclosure
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- verb disclose to view as by removing a cover
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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"I am sure his refusal to disclose comes from the same rationale that he justifies to hide his public schedule," said the source familiar with the arrangement at the Harvard Club.
Len Levitt: Ray Kelly: Harvard Club Freeloader Len Levitt 2010
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"I am sure his refusal to disclose comes from the same rationale that he justifies to hide his public schedule," said the source familiar with the arrangement at the Harvard Club.
Len Levitt: Ray Kelly: Harvard Club Freeloader Len Levitt 2010
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"I am sure his refusal to disclose comes from the same rationale that he justifies to hide his public schedule," said the source familiar with the arrangement at the Harvard Club.
Len Levitt: Ray Kelly: Harvard Club Freeloader Len Levitt 2010
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Failure to disclose is one of the first things they warn you about when you become a senator; it comes right after they give you the key to the Senate elevator.
October 2006 2006
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The information they disclose is available to the public and appears often in publications, most prominently The
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The information they disclose is available to the public and appears often in publications, most prominently The
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It happens on op-ed pages of newspapers every day when they bother to disclose, that is.
Hullabaloo 2006
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The book's sophisticated analysis of concepts such as human rights and national security, its analysis of the varied "Asian" understandings of the role of the media, government and the basic ethical rules of business ethics, reveals that such common terms disclose a variety of widely different meanings.
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This release and the related conference call disclose certain non-GAAP financial measures.
unknown title 2011
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This release and the related conference call disclose certain non-GAAP financial measures.
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