Disclosure vs Disclose - What's the difference?
disclosure | disclose | Related terms |
The act of something.
(legal) The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.
(legal) A previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.
(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
Disclose is a related term of disclosure.
As nouns the difference between disclosure and disclose
is that disclosure is the act of revealing something while disclose is a disclosure.As a verb disclose is
to open up, unfasten.disclosure
English
Noun
(en noun)- get full disclosure
Synonyms
* revelationAntonyms
* closureDerived terms
* nondisclosuredisclose
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.