Depose vs Disclose - What's the difference?
depose | disclose |
(literally) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
* Woodword
To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.
* Prynne
(legal) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition
(legal) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.
* Shakespeare
To take or swear an oath.
To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
* Francis Bacon
To uncover, physically expose to view.
* Woodward
* 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:
To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
* Alexander Pope
* Addison
In transitive terms the difference between depose and disclose
is that depose is to remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent while disclose is to expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.As verbs the difference between depose and disclose
is that depose is to put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away while disclose is to open up, unfasten.As a noun disclose is
a disclosure.depose
English
Verb
(depos)- additional mud deposed upon it
- A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
- a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed
- After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
- Depose him in the justice of his cause.
- to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands
Synonyms
* declareAntonyms
* restoreDerived terms
* deposable * deposalAnagrams
* ----disclose
English
Verb
(disclos)- The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
- The shells being broken, the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
- Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.
- Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose .
- If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.
