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Expose vs Leash - What's the difference?

expose | leash |

As nouns the difference between expose and leash

is that expose is publication of investigative journalism while leash is a strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.

As verbs the difference between expose and leash

is that expose is (to reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to while leash is to fasten or secure with a leash.

expose

English

Noun

(wikipedia exposé) (en noun)
  • publication of investigative journalism.
  • leash

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
  • * Shakespeare
  • like a fawning greyhound in the leash
  • A brace and a half; a tierce.
  • A set of three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
  • * 1597 , , by Shakespeare
  • Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
  • * 1663 ,
  • It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
  • * Tennyson
  • Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
  • A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
  • (surfing) A leg rope.
  • 1980: Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year'' — ''As Years Roll By (1970's Retrospective) , Drew Kampion, magazine, February 1980, page 43. Quoted at surfresearch.com.au glossary[http://www.surfresearch.com.au/agl.html].

    Synonyms

    * (strap or cord used to restrain a dog)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To fasten or secure with a leash.
  • (figuratively) to curb, restrain
  • * 1919 , :
  • Man is brow-beaten, leashed , muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

    Antonyms

    * unleash

    References

    * * (Webster 1913)

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