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Compromise vs Exposure - What's the difference?

compromise | exposure |

As nouns the difference between compromise and exposure

is that compromise is the settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions while exposure is (senseid)(uncountable) the condition of being exposed, uncovered, or unprotected.

As a verb compromise

is (ambitransitive) to bind by mutual agreement.

compromise

Noun

(en noun)
  • The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
  • * Shakespeare
  • But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
  • * Burke
  • All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
  • * Hallam
  • An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
  • A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
  • a compromise of character or right
  • * Lamb
  • I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them.

    Verb

    (compromis)
  • (ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
  • To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
  • * Fuller
  • The controversy may easily be compromised .
  • To find a way between extremes.
  • To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
  • * Motley
  • To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.
  • To cause impairment of.
  • To breach (a security system).
  • He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.

    Derived terms

    * compromising (adjective )

    exposure

    Noun

  • (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= 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.}}
  • (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
  • 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.
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * double exposure * multiple exposure * time exposure