Specify vs Disclose - What's the difference?
specify | disclose | Related terms |
To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
To include in a specification.
To bring about a specific result.
(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
Specify is a related term of disclose.
In lang=en terms the difference between specify and disclose
is that specify is to bring about a specific result while disclose is to expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.As verbs the difference between specify and disclose
is that specify is to state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition while disclose is (obsolete) to open up, unfasten.As a noun disclose is
(obsolete) a disclosure.specify
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(en-verb)disclose
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(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.