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Disclose vs Repeat - What's the difference?

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Disclose is a related term of repeat.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between disclose and repeat

is that disclose is (obsolete) a disclosure while repeat is (obsolete) to make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.

As verbs the difference between disclose and repeat

is that disclose is (obsolete) to open up, unfasten while repeat is (intransitive) to do or say again (and again).

As nouns the difference between disclose and repeat

is that disclose is (obsolete) a disclosure while repeat is an iteration; a repetition.

disclose

English

Verb

(disclos)
  • (obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
  • To uncover, physically expose to view.
  • * Woodward
  • The shells being broken, the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
  • * 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:
  • Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.
  • To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose .
  • * Addison
  • If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.

    Synonyms

    * divulge * impart * publish * reveal * unveil

    Antonyms

    * cover up

    Derived terms

    * discloser

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A disclosure
  • repeat

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  • (Waller)
  • (legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An iteration; a repetition.
  • We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
  • A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.
  • Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.
  • See also

    * redundant