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A systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic
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exposition
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Wiktionary
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Etymology 1 n. 1 The action of expose something to something, such as skin to the sunlight. 2 The act of declare or describe something through either speech or writing. 3 (context obsolete English) The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place. ...
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In musical form and analysis , exposition is the initial presentation of the thematic material of a musical composition , movement , or section . The use of the term generally implies that the material will be developed or varied . In sonata form , the ...
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n. a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic [syn: expounding ] a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display [syn: exhibition , expo ] an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE clear ▪ The draft rules make explicit the clear exposition of the criteria against which cases are assessed. ▪ Here was clear exposition of the biology involved. ▪ The full implications of this will become clearer ...
Usage examples of exposition.
May ensuing, in exposition of these resolutions, will be found in Appendix F.
We should, while endeavoring to uphold loyally and expound conscientiously our social and moral principles in all their essence and purity, in all their bearings upon the divers phases of human society, insure that no direct reference or particular criticism in our exposition of the fundamentals of the Faith would tend to antagonize any existing institution, or help to identify a purely spiritual movement with the base clamorings and contentions of warring sects, factions and nations.
Grand Award, the Gold Medal of the forthcoming International Horological Exposition at Berne.
This is a very clear exposition of the rationale for morphological dating.
Monastic influence accounts for the practice of adding to the reading of a biblical passage some patristic commentary or exposition.
Boiled down to one act, but keeping the good old structure: exposition peripeteia castastrophe.
The great bulk of it was church altar-pieces, though side by side with this was an admirable portraiture, some knowledge of landscape, and some exposition of allegorical subjects.
She had come to rest close by, but a classical exposition of nereids and their affinities was obscured by sploshes as prudent Lydia sculled backward.
I felt such confidence in the substantial justice of the charges which I advanced against her, that I considered them to be a safeguard and an assurance that no harm could ever arise from the freest exposition of what I used to call Anglican principles.
CHAPTER 10 I dropped down through West Hollywood and the southwest corner of Beverly Hills through La Cienega Park to the 1-10 freeway, then picked up the 10 east to the Harbor, then went south on the Harbor past USC and Exposition Park, and into South Central.
Beamish, our first, if not our only philosophical beau and a gentleman of some thoughtfulness, that the social English require tyrannical government as much as the political are able to dispense with it: and this he explained by an exposition of the character of a race possessed of the eminent virtue of individual selfassertion, which causes them to insist on good elbowroom wherever they gather together.
Numerous lectures, dealing not only with Fourierism, various Utopias and communism, but also with the problems of serfdom, judicial and military reforms, constitutionalist or revolutionary methods, enabled Dostoyevsky, who was quick to understand systems through partisan exposition, to acquire a fairly complete political education.
Hippocrates and many other Greek philosophers sat at the feet of the learned Israelitish doctors and absorbed their expositions of wisdom and the inner truth.
Professor Lippmann did gain Harold entry into the restricted areas of the Exposition grounds, though with a stern warning not to wear his Sunday best.
He was in the midst of his exposition when the door from the corridor opened slowly and without noise.