Disseminate vs Disclose - What's the difference?
disseminate | disclose |
To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, and errors for growth and propagation, such as seed
To become scattered.
(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 lang=en terms the difference between disseminate and disclose
is that disseminate is to become scattered while disclose is to expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.As verbs the difference between disseminate and disclose
is that disseminate is to sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, and errors for growth and propagation, such as seed while disclose is (obsolete) to open up, unfasten.As a noun disclose is
(obsolete) a disclosure.disseminate
English
Verb
(disseminat)- The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.
Synonyms
* spread * circulate * propagateCoordinate terms
* promulgateDerived terms
* disseminationExternal links
* * ----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.