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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disclose
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disclose/reveal/release details (=make secret information public)
▪ The company has refused to reveal any technical details until next month.
reveal/disclose sb’s identity (=show or say who a person is)
▪ The company did not reveal the identity of the prospective buyer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ The history of astronomy also disclosed a succession of hypotheses, which made claims for physical truth look precarious.
▪ The filing also disclosed two shareholder suits filed against Pier 1 because of the trading losses.
▪ Conoco also disclosed it has started a review of offshore maintenance operations could lead to a jobs rundown.
▪ I have also disclosed my intention for the effect that the book will have.
fully
▪ The speaker has, in the past, paid a fine for not disclosing fully his property ventures with lobbyists.
▪ Instead, the governor would require simply that elected officials disclose fully and completely all contributions to their campaigns.
how
▪ It has not disclosed how much it thought these brands were worth.
▪ Neither Curtis nor the real estate representative for the property would disclose how much the lease will cost.
▪ The proposed rules will require the non-weapons powers to disclose how much uranium they buy.
▪ The company did not disclose how many employees will be laid off.
▪ Eden took refuge behind the usual claim that it would not be in the national interest to disclose how Crabb had drowned.
▪ Greeley declined to disclose how much Kerry raised last year or the total amount of cash in his campaign accounts.
▪ The company never disclosed how many workers were let go, but the San Diego office was cut by about one-third.
publicly
▪ The deal-which included 60,000 grenades and 2m rounds of ammunition-was never publicly disclosed.
▪ After that flap, and the resulting corporate embarrassment, Intel promised to publicly disclose shortcomings in its microprocessors.
▪ Dirks relayed this news to some of his clients, who sold Equity Funding Corps shares before the fraud was publicly disclosed.
yesterday
▪ His warning was disclosed yesterday in what appeared to be an amazing blunder by Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.
■ NOUN
acquisition
▪ Details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
action
▪ The court held on demurrer that the statement of claim disclosed no cause of action.
▪ The defendants sought to have the claim struck out on the ground that it disclosed no cause of action.
amount
▪ The vendor's agent disclosed the amount of an offer made by one potential purchaser to another.
▪ Goldman declined to disclose the amount Coors will get paid.
▪ They could not disclose the amount they lost because of insurance reasons, they said, but the amount was substantial.
cause
▪ The court held on demurrer that the statement of claim disclosed no cause of action.
▪ Potts J. dismissed the defendants' application to strike out the statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action.
▪ The defendants sought to have the claim struck out on the ground that it disclosed no cause of action.
▪ It disclosed no reasonable cause of action and was frivolous and vexatious.
company
▪ To enable readers to understand its financial statements properly, a company must disclose its accounting policies.
▪ The company did not disclose how many employees will be laid off.
▪ Some companies have already voluntarily disclosed similar information.
▪ No names of overseas companies have been disclosed.
▪ Magnet's finance director Albert King has suddenly left the company, it was disclosed last night.
▪ Trading in Rohr shares was halted by exchange officials yesterday until the company disclosed more information about the acquisition.
▪ The company never disclosed how many workers were let go, but the San Diego office was cut by about one-third.
contents
▪ Mr Brown refused to say how the papers had been shown to him or to disclose their further contents.
▪ When forced to disclose the contents, roses spilled out on to the floor.
▪ It is a federal crime to intentionally disclose the contents of an intercepted telephone call.
▪ It is a federal crime to intentionally intercept a telephone conversation or to disclose its contents.
deal
▪ One difference: He disclosed those deals loudly, in very public press conferences.
detail
▪ Mr Spicer declined to disclose details.
▪ Investigators would not disclose other details of the probe but described it as a long-standing investigation that stretches nationwide.
▪ At the same time they disclosed details of some of the charges facing her.
▪ He would not disclose any other details of the alleged assaults.
▪ It is pressing for companies to be required by law to disclose details of trade effluents.
▪ He said the weekly is profitable, but declined to disclose details.
▪ It said it would absorb Information Consulting but could not disclose details of the transaction.
▪ Local authorities are legally obliged to record unmet needs and disclose details of these.
document
▪ Difficulties can arise if one party refuses to disclose a document which the other party wishes the expert to see.
▪ The newly disclosed documents contradict White House claims that Mrs Clinton did not play a significant role in the firings.
▪ It is normal practice for the vendor to disclose various documents to the purchaser as part of the disclosure exercise.
▪ The May 13 gathering, disclosed in documents released by the White House Friday, drew swift condemnation from public interest groups.
▪ A party must seek leave before disclosing any documents to an expert witness.
▪ The vendor will subsequently wish to disclose all such documents against the warranties.
▪ The disclosed documents, which span a period up to 1995, do not suggest that BATemployees committed any crime in Britain.
▪ They may also be designed to minimize the pressure to disclose government documents.
duty
▪ This duty to disclose is not limited by medical practice, it is set by law.
fact
▪ John Donaldson continued to pay R. T. Smith his salary on the understanding he would never disclose the fact.
▪ Was there any contractual duty on the defendants to disclose this material fact to the plaintiff?
fee
▪ Should these fees be disclosed as non-audit fees under the new regulations?
identity
▪ He therefore persuaded a friend to procure him a ticket without disclosing his identity.
information
▪ Once their trades are completed, insiders' incentives are to disclose the information.
▪ When prosecutors refused to disclose information about their procedures, a federal district judge dismissed the charges against the five defendants.
▪ Some companies have already voluntarily disclosed similar information.
▪ Traditionally, most information about company performance was kept from employees for fear they might improperly disclose the information to a competitor.
▪ Coetzee was found guilty of currency smuggling, telephone tapping and disclosing official information.
▪ Also rejected was an objection that the Commission had decided to disclose information given in confidence.
▪ The writer Tony Geraghty was similarly charged last year for disclosing information about mass surveillance by the army in Northern Ireland.
▪ Anyone who discloses financial information via the internet is vulnerable to fraud or electronic mix-ups.
name
▪ Each force is to be asked to disclose the names of its informants.
▪ It brings no legacy, it discloses no new names or addresses.
▪ We are obliged to disclose the name of our client and such other relevant details concerning his business.
official
▪ Lab officials disclosed this week that the plume had been growing for at least six years.
▪ Instead, the governor would require simply that elected officials disclose fully and completely all contributions to their campaigns.
party
▪ Difficulties can arise if one party refuses to disclose a document which the other party wishes the expert to see.
▪ The parties agreed not to disclose the settlement.
▪ Of course, the parties might agree to disclose expert reports, a practice which is encouraged by the Court of Appeal.
▪ It was for the party refusing to disclose to establish his right to refuse.
plan
▪ Although they have been reluctant to disclose their plans they would like to tax people's property and tax their income.
▪ It would not disclose expansion plans for the rest of the Bay Area.
report
▪ In reply, the vendors might ask for the purchaser's investigation report to be disclosed.
▪ The report disclosed that the Ministry of Agriculture monitoring programme for the lake had been seriously inaccurate.
secret
▪ Enthusiasm will help in the endless task of unfolding our own potential, and disclosing the hidden secrets about ourselves.
▪ In a written order, Yeltsin charged his erstwhile buddy with slandering the president and his family and disclosing state secrets.
▪ The crime is to disclose an official secret, probably even if extracted from the accused at the point of a pistol.
source
▪ A trade magazine journalist was ordered in the High Court to disclose the source of commercially sensitive information.
▪ The Chronicle argues that reporters have a limited constitutional right not to disclose confidential sources.
▪ California law requires contributors to disclose the true source of any donations of $ 100 or more.
week
▪ But when the contents of the will were disclosed last week, it was Mrs Rinehart who got control of the mines.
▪ Lab officials disclosed this week that the plume had been growing for at least six years.
▪ The committee's existence was not disclosed until last week.
■ VERB
decline
▪ Mr Spicer declined to disclose details.
▪ Both Raytheon and the utility declined to disclose financial terms.
▪ He is already interviewing candidates, whose names he declined to disclose.
▪ He said the weekly is profitable, but declined to disclose details.
▪ The banks declined to disclose the purchase price but sources close to the deal said it is about $ 150 million.
▪ Greeley declined to disclose how much Kerry raised last year or the total amount of cash in his campaign accounts.
▪ Goldman declined to disclose the amount Coors will get paid.
fail
▪ And, if he fails to disclose the existence of such information, does the shareholder have a direct cause of action?
▪ Claudia Schneider is charged with one count of failing to disclose bankruptcy and has also been held in Miami since May.
▪ Dickson reveals that the Coniston Mine was being managed in a similar manner though fails to disclose who the operators were.
▪ But he failed to disclose that he had simply transferred his interest in the facility to his wife.
▪ The suit claimed that Pike committed fraud for failing to disclose his background and sought his removal from control of the venture.
▪ Schneider faces five counts of fraudulently obtaining bank loans for building projects and one count of failing to disclose bankruptcy.
▪ He also failed to disclose that Rose lawyers, including Mrs Clinton, had done work on the development.
force
▪ The argument is over a 3.4% stake that it has been forced to disclose in Jardine Matheson Holdings itself.
▪ When forced to disclose the contents, roses spilled out on to the floor.
▪ According to Hors, the new law will aggravate this situation, as these institutions will regularly force general practitioners to disclose information.
refuse
▪ Difficulties can arise if one party refuses to disclose a document which the other party wishes the expert to see.
▪ When prosecutors refused to disclose information about their procedures, a federal district judge dismissed the charges against the five defendants.
▪ The ministry has refused to disclose what was in the vaccines.
▪ It was for the party refusing to disclose to establish his right to refuse.
require
▪ It is pressing for companies to be required by law to disclose details of trade effluents.
▪ California law requires contributors to disclose the true source of any donations of $ 100 or more.
▪ A parliament code of conduct is being debated that would require members to disclose their assets and business interests.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ GM did not disclose details of the agreement.
▪ He refused to disclose the identity of the politician.
▪ In the report it was disclosed that neither pilot nor controller had any experience of the radar system in use at the time of the crash.
▪ The agent does not have to disclose the amount his client paid.
▪ The Security Service is unlikely to disclose any information.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In their letter, the solicitors did not disclose that there had been a release of all claims against Mr. Mahmoud.
▪ It has not been disclosed which campus would provide which specialties.
▪ The company did not disclose how many employees will be laid off.
▪ The deal-which included 60,000 grenades and 2m rounds of ammunition-was never publicly disclosed.
▪ The Vendor ought to act in good faith and disclose any such matters.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disclose

Disclose \Dis*close"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disclosed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disclosing.] [OE. desclosen, disclosen, fr. disclos, desclos, not shut in, open, OF. desclos, p. p. of desclore to open, F. d['e]clore; pref. des- (L. dis-) + clore to shut, fr. L. claudere to shut. See Close, and cf. Disclusion.]

  1. To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.

    The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.
    --Bacon.

  2. To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.

    The shells being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
    --Woodward.

  3. To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal.

    How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown!
    --Byron.

    Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose.
    --Pope.

  4. To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs.

    If I disclose my passion, Our friendship 's an end.
    --Addison.

    Syn: To uncover; open; unveil; discover; reveal; divulge; tell; utter.

Disclose

Disclose \Dis*close"\, n. Disclosure. [Obs.]
--Shak. Young.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disclose

late 14c., from Old French desclos "open, exposed, plain, explicit," past participle of desclore (Modern French déclore) "open, break open, unlock, reveal," from des- (see dis-) + clore "to close" (see close (v.)). Related: Disclosed; disclosing.

Wiktionary
disclose

n. (context obsolete English) A disclosure vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To open up, unfasten. 2 (context transitive English) To uncover, physically expose to view. 3 (context transitive English) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.

WordNet
disclose
  1. v. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her" [syn: let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out]

  2. disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set" [syn: expose]

Wikipedia
Disclose
This article is about the band. For the noun, see Disclosure (disambiguation)

Disclose were a Japanese D-beat band from Kōchi City, heavily influenced by Discharge. Their sound heavily replicates Discharge's style, with an increased use of fuzz and distortion guitar effects. The subject matter is also similar to Discharge, in that the songs' themes are primarily about nuclear war, and its horrific consequences. On June 5, 2007, Disclose frontman Kawakami died from an overdose of alcohol and sedative.

Usage examples of "disclose".

Arachova, proceeding toward Delphi, the deep gorge opened, disclosing a blue glimpse of the Gulf of Corinth and the Achaian mountains.

She answered with perfect calm that I had nothing to expect from her as she did not love me, and as for keeping the secret she defied me to disclose it.

This remark piqued me, and I answered that she was imprudent to disclose her designs in such a manner, and that she would find my resolves strong enough when the time came.

But the Bauhaus pattern is unequivocal, and despite their ambivalent modernism the framed prints disclose no secrets.

There is disclosed a mass of some thirty or forty beans, covered with juicy pulp.

BURNEY, the maid, a girl with one of those flowery Botticellian faces only met with in England, comes in through the curtained door, which she leaves open, disclosing the glimpse of a white wall.

Her face was crimson, her nostrils uncontrollably flared and shrank, and the turbulent swelling of those beautiful bubbies showed unequivocally that this was perhaps the most sincere manifestation she had ever shown in the act of love, or so at least I could conjecture after what she had already disclosed concerning her frustrating marital experiences.

Enrico had betrayed, when he related the conversation that had passed between himself and the pious Carthusian, would have determined her, had she not already by a solemn promise bound herself to perpetual silence upon the subject, not to disclose what she had seen and heard, lest they should confirm his worst and most terrible surmises.

However, at each level, once the security had been breached for whatever reason -even by design - part of the secret was disclosed through declassification while the rest was dragged into a new classified project or moved to an existing one that had not been compromised.

From the depths, it cries out to gods no longer there, searches for a meaning not yet disclosed, still to be incarnated.

Die-hard materialists can have these experiences as easily as purebred idealists, and both are completely stunned into awestruck silence: the depths of the Mystery are disclosing themselves, and a muted mind must only bend in reverential awe.

Further, the subject of the knowing itself develops in an intersubjective space that alone discloses aspects of these overall referents.

Parting her lips to disclose gapped rows of discolored teeth, she began to speak.

In a word, their credit being exhausted, and their creditors growing clamorous, they presented a petition to the house of commons, disclosing their distresses, and imploring such assistance as should enable them not only to pay their debts, but also to maintain the forts in a defensible condition.

The rents in dresses and chemises disclosed parts of their shoulders, their breasts, and their arms, and their white legs shone through the holes in the stockings.