Disclose vs Detect - What's the difference?
disclose | detect |
(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 obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between disclose and detect
is that disclose is (obsolete) a disclosure while detect is (obsolete) detected.As verbs the difference between disclose and detect
is that disclose is (obsolete) to open up, unfasten while detect is to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.As a noun disclose
is (obsolete) a disclosure.As an adjective detect is
(obsolete) detected.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.