Disclose vs Uncovered - What's the difference?

disclose | uncovered |


As a verb disclose

is (obsolete) to open up, unfasten.

As a noun disclose

is (obsolete) a disclosure.

As an adjective uncovered is

not covered or protected from the weather etc.

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

    Related terms

    * disclosure

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A disclosure

    • uncovered

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • not covered or protected from the weather etc
  • lacking insurance or security
  • bareheaded

    • Synonyms

    *revealed

    Related terms

    *uncover