Dictionary entry details
• EXPOSURE (noun)
Meaning:
Vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context examples:
exposure to the weather / they died from exposure
Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):
vulnerability (susceptibility to injury or attack)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):
wind exposure; windage (exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance))
solarisation; solarization (exposure to the rays of the sun)
Meaning:
The act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
she denounced the exposure of children to pornography
Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):
influence (causing something without any direct or apparent effort)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):
overexposure (the act of exposing someone excessively to an influencing experience)
underexposure (inadequate publicity)
Meaning:
The disclosure of something secret
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
they feared exposure of their campaign plans
Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):
disclosure; revealing; revelation (the speech act of making something evident)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):
expose; unmasking (the exposure of an impostor or a fraud)
muckraking (the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures))
Meaning:
Aspect re light or wind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context example:
the studio had a northern exposure
Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):
aspect; panorama; prospect; scene; view; vista (the visual percept of a region)
Meaning:
The state of being vulnerable or exposed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
vulnerability; exposure
Context examples:
his vulnerability to litigation / his exposure to ridicule
Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):
danger (the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury)
Meaning:
The intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Context example:
he used the wrong exposure
Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):
light unit (a measure of the visible electromagnetic radiation)
Meaning:
A picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
photo; photograph; pic; exposure
Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):
icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):
spectrogram; spectrograph (a photographic record of a spectrum)
shot; snap; snapshot (an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera)
radiogram; radiograph; shadowgraph; skiagram; skiagraph (a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays))
photomicrograph (a photograph taken with the help of a microscope)
photographic print; print (a printed picture produced from a photographic negative)
stereo; stereoscopic photograph; stereoscopic picture (two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together)
still (a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes))
telephoto; telephotograph (a photograph made with a telephoto lens)
telephotograph (a photograph transmitted and reproduced over a distance)
time exposure (a photograph produced with a relatively long exposure time)
vignette (a photograph whose edges shade off gradually)
wedding picture (photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding)
scene; shot (a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film)
photocopy (a photographic copy of written or printed or graphic work)
mug shot; mugshot (a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records))
mosaic (assembly of aerial photographs forming a composite picture)
beefcake (a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire)
black and white; monochrome (a black-and-white photograph or slide)
blueprint (photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.)
cheesecake (a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire)
closeup (a photograph taken at close range)
daguerreotype (a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor)
blowup; enlargement; magnification (a photographic print that has been enlarged)
frame (one of a series of still transparent photographs on a strip of film used in making movies)
microdot (photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security))
longshot (a photograph taken from a distance)
hologram; holograph (the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography)
headshot (a photograph of a person's head)
glossy (a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper)
Meaning:
The act of exposing film to light
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):
photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):
overexposure (the act of exposing film to too much light or for too long a time)
underexposure (the act of exposing film to too little light or for too short a time)
time exposure (exposure of a film for a relatively long time (more than half a second))
Meaning:
Presentation to view in an open or public manner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
the exposure of his anger was shocking
Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):
demonstration; presentation; presentment (a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exposure"):
debunking; repudiation (the exposure of falseness or pretensions)
Meaning:
Abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("exposure" is a kind of...):
abandonment; desertion; forsaking (the act of giving something up)
