Word Meanings - EXPOSURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light. (more info) 1. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of

Additional info about word: EXPOSURE

The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light. (more info) 1. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe. Macaulay. 2. The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold to inconvenience. When we have our naked frailties hid, That suffer in exposure. Shak. 3. Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc. "Under a southern exposure. Evelyn. The best exposure of the two for woodcocks. Sir. W. Scott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPOSURE)

• Apocalypse
• Revelation
• manifestation
• unveiling
• exhibition
• divestment
• exposure
• disclosure
• Aspect
• Front
• face
• phase
• side
• appearance
• presentation
• feature
• view
• air
• mien
• deportment
• countenance
• bearing
• complexion
• sight
• Nudity
• Nakedness
• bareness
• Risk
• Hazard
• danger
• peril
• jeopardy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXPOSURE)

• Oppose
• confront
• discourage
• discountenance
• browbeat

Related words: (words related to EXPOSURE)

• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• PERILLA
  A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.
• FRONTIERED
  Placed on the frontiers.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• FRONTLESSLY
  Shamelessly; impudently.
• FRONTED
  Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.
• APOCALYPSE
  1. The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament. 2. Anything viewed as a revelation; as disclosure. The new apocalypse of Nature. Carlyle.
• SIGHTLY
  1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
• FRONTLET
  The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. (more info) 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8. 2. A frown . What makes that
• UNVEIL
  To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.
• CONFRONTATION
  Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
• PHASE CONVERTER
  A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
• FRONTAGE
  The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
• PHASEOMANNITE
  See INOSITE
• PHASEOLUS
  A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• TWO-PHASE; TWO-PHASER
  See DIPHASER
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.