Exposure
[ɪk'spəʊʒə;ek-] or [ɪk'spoʒɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience; 'she denounced the exposure of children to pornography'.
(noun.) abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open).
(noun.) presentation to view in an open or public manner; 'the exposure of his anger was shocking'.
(noun.) the act of exposing film to light.
(noun.) vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain; 'exposure to the weather' or 'they died from exposure';.
(noun.) aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces; 'the studio had a northern exposure'.
(noun.) the disclosure of something secret; 'they feared exposure of their campaign plans'.
(noun.) the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; 'he used the wrong exposure'.
Inputed by Donald--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.
(n.) The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience.
(n.) Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.
(n.) The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.
Checked by Justin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Exposition, disclosing, laying open.[2]. Position (with reference to the points of the compass).
Inputed by Frieda
Examples
- Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and threw himself down with his face to the pillow. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The shame, desertion, wretchedness, and exposure of the great capital; the wet, the cold, the slow hours, and the swift clouds of the dismal night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You have prepared me for my exposure, and I thank you for that too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You know that these have to be manufactured by artificial light, as exposure to sunlight always results in an explosion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I am calculating on the exposure. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Marey was limited to a very few photographs, because the entire surface had to be stopped and started in connection with each exposure. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She did not want exposure to be added to desertion. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- This species of stone is so hard that figures cut in it remain sharp and unmarred after exposure to the weather for two or three thousand years. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And health, indeed, she must have had, to be able to bear the exposure to the weather she now encountered. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What an exposure! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- An exposure would profit me indirectly to a considerable extent. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The exposure of a single head would bring a volley from our soldiers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The experiment by which it was illustrated consisted in pouring the solution on chalk, which became blackened by exposure to light. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- An exposure today with a modern camera, under similar conditions, could be made in 1/1000 of a second. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He looked rather comical, blinking and trying to be in the scene, when emotionally he was violated by his exposure to a crowd. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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