What's the difference between disclose and divulge?

Disclose


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.
  • (v. t.) To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
  • (v. t.) To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal.
  • (v. t.) To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs.
  • (n.) Disclosure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The preembedding method also disclosed diffuse cytosolic immunoreactivity.
  • (2) Further subfractionation disclosed that the acetyltransferase activity was most enriched in the Golgi fraction, in which its specific activity was some ninefold greater than in the total homogenate.
  • (3) Immense amounts of data about cancer-associated chromosome aberrations have been collected during the last 10 years, and the systematic evaluation of these data has disclosed a number of correlations between chromosome change and neoplastic disease.
  • (4) He told MPs that any steps taken to shore up the markets as a result of the referendum would be disclosed afterwards.
  • (5) However, cytophotometric DNA analysis disclosed that significant increases in proliferative activity of mucosa had occurred 4 weeks before the appearance of histopathological dysplasia, and 8 weeks prior to development of grossly visible tumors.
  • (6) A case of multilocular renal cyst (MRC) is reported in a hypertensive patient in whom the IVP had disclosed a left renal mass.
  • (7) Initial analysis of aspirated bone marrow disclosed ALL FAB-L1 morphology, common (Ia+, cALLa+) immunophenotype and a complex abnormal karyotype.
  • (8) By using our DNA probe, we could disclose, in addition to the StyI site at amino acid position 420, two further StyI site downstream: one was specific for the GC*1S allele and another for the GC*1F allele.
  • (9) All FSH isoforms obtained after chromatofocusing represented alpha and beta dimers as disclosed by size exclusion chromatography.
  • (10) Physical examination disclosed stigmata of chronic liver disease.
  • (11) Numerous polypeptide hormone and amine-producing endocrine cells were disclosed.
  • (12) After resuscitation a laparotomy disclosed an anterior paramedian laceration of the uterus.
  • (13) The results disclosed that most of the estradiol derivatives evaluated exhibited a long-acting estrogenic action.
  • (14) Chest and abdominal scintigraphy after intraperitoneal injection of 99mTc-human serum albumin disclosed early filling of the pleural space by the radiopharmaceutical and suggested a diaphragmatic defect as the cause for this rare association.
  • (15) Studies on the functional and morphological recovery of colons subjected to three hours' ischaemia have disclosed an extremely heterogeneous response among the 24 dogs used.
  • (16) The force said reports from its directorate of professional standards (DPS) were not routinely disclosed to complainants or outsiders.
  • (17) Political parties are required by law to disclose any donations received over a certain threshold, which in 2012-13 was $12,100.
  • (18) Fundus examination disclosed a subtle cherry red spot bilaterally.
  • (19) Careful microscopic examination of end-stage kidneys undergoing dialysis discloses cysts lined with hyperplastic cells.
  • (20) X-ray examination disclosed a spicule formation surrounding the osteolytic focus in the mandible.

Divulge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret.
  • (v. t.) To indicate publicly; to proclaim.
  • (v. t.) To impart; to communicate.
  • (v. i.) To become publicly known.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) People are not willing to use online booking forms, not willing to divulge their details.
  • (2) It may be that these two methods divulge different information regarding the electrophysiologic state of the myocardium.
  • (3) As a responsible company, we would not divulge details of individual cases."
  • (4) Independent security expert Graham Cluley told the Guardian suggested that a hacker could have worked for years to gather information leading to the images, or could have hacked an address book with celebrity emails and then used phishing techniques, where users are tricked into divulging their password by fake emails.
  • (5) Ratner also asks whether the California-based company did anything to challenge the warrants and whether it has received any further data demands it has yet to divulge.
  • (6) The middle ground is to divulge what the law requires.” Lynch’s Justice Department currently is fighting Apple in a federal court over the company has to weaken an iPhone’s security controls to make it easier for investigators to guess the passcode, which Apple doesn’t have.
  • (7) Yahoo filed a suit in the Fisa court on 9 September, joining Microsoft, Google and others in an attempt to force the court to allow them to divulge more information and preserve their reputations.
  • (8) He has not published detailed clinical reports, divulged the details of his methods, published meaningful statistics, conducted a controlled trial, nor provided independent investigators with specimens of his treatment materials for analysis.
  • (9) Just hours after her admission, two Australian radio DJs impersonating the Queen and Prince of Wales duped hospital staff into divulging intimate medical details.
  • (10) He is under intense pressure to divulge the name of one of his sources at the criminal leak trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent who is another of the Espionage Act eight.
  • (11) She didn’t divulge names or any possible actors, however.
  • (12) It is acknowledged that new legal procedures will be required to ensure that those who attend such hearings do not divulge details until they are reportable.
  • (13) However, Samsung has been obliged to divulge details of US shipments for a wide range of allegedly infringing phones and tablets.
  • (14) The program's confidentiality prevented him from divulging any identifying information, Dr. Fluharty replied.
  • (15) Perhaps the cause really is proving harder to establish than whatever the black boxes have so far divulged.
  • (16) Francis said that if the police confirmed he would not be investigated for divulging official secrets, he would then talk to Hogan-Howe or Creedon to see if they could offer assurances that the investigation would be completed properly.
  • (17) Research firm CreditSights said it expected a benign market reaction to the European tests, given the amount of information divulged by individual banks: "Controversy remains over the treatment of sovereign risks, but private sector loan losses look to have been adequately factored in.
  • (18) Sussex police does not divulge dealings with individual members of the public but said that it investigated all complaints against the force.
  • (19) Another claimed: “Isis is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base.” Central Command said it viewed the hack as “purely an act of vandalism,” adding that no classified information divulged or operational networks had been affected.
  • (20) Evidence suggests nurses experience communication difficulties and frequently block patients from divulging their worries or concerns.