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| | | | expose | (n) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud, Syn. unmasking, Example: he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government | | expose | (v) expose or make accessible to some action or influence, Example: Expose your students to art; expose the blanket to sunshine | | expose | (v) to show, make visible or apparent, Syn. display, exhibit, Example: The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month; Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?; National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship | | expose | (v) expose to light, of photographic film | | expose | (v) abandon by leaving out in the open air, Example: The infant was exposed by the teenage mother; After Christmas, many pets get abandoned | | exposition | (n) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic, Syn. expounding | | exposition | (n) an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse, Example: we would have understood the play better if there had been some initial exposition of the background | | exposition | (n) (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur | | expositor | (n) a person who explains, Syn. expounder | | expository | (adj) serving to expound or set forth, Syn. expositive, Example: clean expository writing |
| | Exposal | n. Exposure. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Expose | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exposed p. pr. & vb. n. Exposing. ] [ F. exposer; pref. ex- (L. ex out)+poser to place. See Pose, v. t. ] 1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. [ 1913 Webster ] Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them examined. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat. [ 1913 Webster ] Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor. [ 1913 Webster ] You only expose the follies of men, without arraigning their vices. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Expose | ‖n. [ F., prop. p. p. of exposer. See Expose, v. t. ] A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed. [ 1913 Webster ] | | exposed | adj. 1. with no protection or shield; as, the exposed northeast frontier.
Syn. -- open. [ WordNet 1.5 ] 2. visible due to absence of clothing at that point; -- of body parts.
Syn. -- uncovered, bare. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ] | | Exposedness | n. The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Exposer | n. One who exposes or discloses. [ 1913 Webster ] | | exposit | v. 1. to set forth reasons; to explain or expound. [ WordNet 1.5 ] 2. to make external.
Syn. -- externalize, externalise. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | Exposition | n. [ L. expositio, fr. exponere, expositum: cf. F. exposition. See Expound. ] 1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. [ 1913 Webster ] You know the law; your exposition
Hath been most sound. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun. [ Obs. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878. [ A Gallicism ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | Expositive | a. Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Expositor | n. [ L. See Expound. ] One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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