expose

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

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

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• Rhymes: -əʊz

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.

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

• expose oneself
• exposure

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spoz/

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. third-person singular present subjunctive of exposer
5. second-person singular imperative of exposer