Burst vs Exposure - What's the difference?
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An instance of, or the act of bursting .
A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
To break from internal pressure.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To cause to break from internal pressure.
(obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
* Shakespeare
* Fairfax
To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
* 1913 , (Mariano Azuela), The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
To produce as an effect of bursting.
(senseid)(uncountable) The condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (countable, uncountable) That part which is facing or exposed to something, e.g. the sun, weather, sky, or a view.
(uncountable) Lack of protection from weather or the elements.
* 1993 , (Paul Chadwick), The Ugly Boy , Dark Horse Books
(senseid)(photography) An instance of taking a photograph.
(photography) The piece of film exposed to light.
(photography) Details of the time and f-number used.
(gardening) The amount of sun, wind etc. experienced by a particular site.
As nouns the difference between burst and exposure
is that burst is an instance of, or the act of bursting while exposure is (senseid)(uncountable) the condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.As a verb burst
is to break from internal pressure.burst
English
(wikipedia burst)Noun
(en noun)- The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
Derived terms
* cloudburstVerb
citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- You will not pay for the glasses you have burst ?
- He burst his lance against the sand below.
- He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
- Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
- to burst a hole through the wall
Quotations
* (English Citations of "burst")Derived terms
* burst forth * burst into flame * burst out * burst someone's bubbleexposure
English
(wikipedia exposure)Noun
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
- As all of you know, a great tragedy occurred yesterday. Arthur Harcourt died of exposure sometimes in the morning in the woods off Mount Tom Road.