expose.
To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light.
Meaning & usage
To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light.
To subject photographic film to light, thereby recording an image.
To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance, such as radiation, a chemical, or any other stress.
Residents were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
to expose an API
To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English exposen, from Old French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expone and expound (via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”)), from the same Latin term.
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