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disclose

English

Etymology

From Middle English disclosen, from Middle French desclos, from Old French desclore, itself from Vulgar Latin disclaudere, from Latin dis- + claudere (to close, shut) or as a variant of discludo, discludere (cf. disclude).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d?s?kl??z/
  • Rhymes: -??z

Verb

disclose (third-person singular simple present discloses, present participle disclosing, simple past and past participle disclosed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
  2. (transitive) To uncover, physically expose to view.
    Synonyms: reveal, unveil
    • 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, especially Minerals, &c
      The shells being broken, [] the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.
    • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:
      Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.
  3. (transitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
    Synonyms: reveal, unveil, divulge, publish, impart
    • If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.

Synonyms

  • (to expose to the knowledge of others): bring to light, expose, reveal; See also Thesaurus:divulge
  • (to make known, state openly): impart, make known, publish; See also Thesaurus:announce

Antonyms

  • cover up
  • withhold

Derived terms

  • discloser

Related terms

  • disclosure

Translations

Noun

disclose (plural discloses)

  1. (obsolete) A disclosure.

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speak

English

Alternative forms

  • speake (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English speken (to speak), from Old English specan (to speak), alteration of earlier sprecan (to speak), from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekan? (to speak, make a sound), from Proto-Indo-European *spreg- (to make a sound, utter, speak).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /spi?k/
  • (General American) enPR: sp?k, IPA(key): /spik/
  • Rhymes: -i?k

Verb

speak (third-person singular simple present speaks, present participle speaking, simple past spoke or (archaic) spake, past participle spoken or (colloquial, nonstandard) spoke)

  1. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
  2. (intransitive, reciprocal) To have a conversation.
  3. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
  4. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
  5. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
    1. (by extension) To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.
  6. (transitive) To utter.
  7. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
    • 1785, Frances Burney, Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay, author of Evelina, Cecilia, &c., link:
      Their behaviour to each other speaks the most cordial confidence and happiness.
  8. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
  9. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
  10. Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
  11. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
    • [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.
    • 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody in "Poems", published 1847, page 239
      Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.
    • 2013, George Francis Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving (quoting an older text)
      Spoke the ship Union of Newport, without any anchor. The next day ran down to Acra, where the windlass was again capsized and the pawls broken.
Usage notes
  • Saying that one speaks a language often means that one can or knows how to speak it ("I speak Italian"); similarly, "I don't speak Italian" usually means that one cannot, rather than that one chooses not to.

Synonyms

  • articulate, talk, verbalize

Antonyms

  • be silent

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

  • sign

Related terms

  • speech

Translations

Noun

speak (countable and uncountable, plural speaks)

  1. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
    Corporate speak; IT speak.
  2. Speech, conversation.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

speak (plural speaks)

  1. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

Anagrams

  • Akpes, Paeks, Pasek, Peaks, Spake, kapes, peaks, spake

Scots

Etymology

From Old English sprecan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sp?k]
  • (North Northern Scots) IPA(key): [sp?k]

Verb

speak (third-person singular present speaks, present participle speakin, past spak, past participle spoken)

  1. to speak

Derived terms

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