different between specify vs disclose
specify
English
Etymology
From Old French specifier, especefier, or directly from Medieval Latin specific?, from specificus (“specific”).
Pronunciation
- (UK)IPA(key): /?sp?s.?.fa?/
- (US)IPA(key): /?sp?s.??fa?/
- Hyphenation: spe?ci?fy
Verb
specify (third-person singular simple present specifies, present participle specifying, simple past and past participle specified)
- (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
- (transitive) To include in a specification.
- (transitive) To bring about a specific result.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To speak explicitly or in detail (often used with of).
Synonyms
- explicitize
- disambiguate
Derived terms
- above-specified
Related terms
- specifiable
- specific
- specification
Translations
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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)
- (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
- (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.
- (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)
- (obsolete) A disclosure.
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