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Exposure   /ɪkspˈoʊʒər/   Listen
Exposure

noun
1.
Vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain.  "They died from exposure"
2.
The act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience.
3.
The disclosure of something secret.
4.
Aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces.
5.
The state of being vulnerable or exposed.  Synonym: vulnerability.  "His exposure to ridicule"
6.
The intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate.
7.
A representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material.  Synonyms: photo, photograph, pic, picture.
8.
The act of exposing film to light.
9.
Presentation to view in an open or public manner.
10.
Abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open).



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"Exposure" Quotes from Famous Books



... exposure of grave political scandals in Sydney has attracted attention to the seamy side of the political life of the colonies. But such scandals, I would fain believe, are exceptional. The tone of the Sydney House is little, if at all, better ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny

... be wholly inadequate. First, the manner of taking their lives must have the quality of strength and a force which in itself would have a large element of satisfaction; hence it must be striking, deliberate, brutal if you wish, revolting if you are particular. Second, it must be preceded by exposure, denunciation, publication, ...
— The Ape, the Idiot & Other People • W. C. Morrow

... Brahmana took his seat; and asked by the monarch he began to talk of the sons of Dharma, Pavana, Indra and of the twins, all of whom having fallen into severe misery, had become emaciated and reduced owing to exposure to wind and sun. And that Brahmana also talked of Krishna who was overwhelmed with suffering and who then had become perfectly helpless, although she had heroes for her lords. And hearing the words of that Brahmana, the royal son of Vichitravirya became afflicted with grief, ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 2 • Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... was not successfully carried out, and in future years the volume will be principally valued as a curiosity, the wonderfully strange mistakes being made therein of placing the honoured name of Sir Josiah Mason under the head of "Next-of-Kin Enquiry Agents," and that, too, just previous to the exposure of the numerous frauds carried out by one of the so-called agents and its curiousness is considerably enhanced by the fact that a like error had been perpetrated in a ...
— Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically • Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell

... then took place. Justices of the peace, judges, and the highest dignitaries of the realm, firmly believed in these reputed sorceries. Even the great Sir Thomas Brown, author of the book intended as an exposure of "Vulgar Errors," gave his testimony to the truth and reality of those diabolical delusions. But we have little need to wonder at the superstition of past ages, when we look at the folly and credulity of ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby


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