(v. t.) To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.
(v. t.) To hide by a counterfeit appearance; to cloak by a false show; to mask; as, to disguise anger; to disguise one's sentiments, character, or intentions.
(v. t.) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
(n.) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.
(n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.
(n.) Change of manner by drink; intoxication.
(n.) A masque or masquerade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Put simply, there would have to be evidence that ultra-low oil prices are having only a temporary downward impact on inflation and have helped disguise upward pressure on wages caused by falling unemployment.
(2) Watson asked if the donations from Grugeon and McCloy were disguised, “because they were both gentlemen who could make money if they had a favourable decision in respect of Wallalong”.
(3) The retail consultancy said there was no disguising that 2008 was "an annus horribilis" for the retail sector and there was little prospect of improvement in 2009.
(4) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
(5) Her most notorious performance came during the Falklands war of 1982 when she made little or no effort to disguise her distaste for American diplomatic support of Britain.
(6) Climate change funding should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.
(7) The litigation revealed that Mr Mercer, who had a history of infiltrating peace groups such as CND, had disguised his dealings with BAE from his home in Loughborough.
(8) But in their second half Osborne will struggle to disguise how many more people he is deliberately sending deeper into all too real danger.
(9) Senior colleagues don’t much disguise their feeling that there are better ways to spend that sort of money.
(10) Police said they found wigs, glasses and other disguises in his room.
(11) Disguised as "trainers", these lethal aircraft were used against the villages of East Timor.
(12) He was a master of disguise, as he demonstrated in the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949), with a multiplicity of roles.
(13) Strachan, whose shyness is routinely disguised by attempts at comedy, responded with a wave.
(14) Dr John Philpott, director of The Jobs Economist , said the scale of mental health issues could be even higher, though disguised by employees giving other reasons for their absence.
(15) Too much, perhaps: my next book features, in thin disguise, Ken Tynan.
(16) Owing to its confusional characteristics, envy is always subtly disguised and hardly ever appears in a straightforward manner.
(17) If so, it will provide the most compelling evidence yet that the News of the World's "rogue reporter" defence was a ruse designed to disguise the true extent of phone hacking at the paper.
(18) Previous research on the use of disguise in structured tests of psychopathology is extended to a clinical population.
(19) Dissociated and disguised measures of academic preferences and perceptions completed weeks later produced even more dramatic results: The continuing impact of initial outcomes was generally greater for discounting than no-discounting subjects.
(20) She is Odysseus's protector in the Odyssey, on hand to provide magical disguises or pep-talks.
Reveal
Definition:
(v. t.) To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
(v. t.) Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).
(n.) A revealing; a disclosure.
(n.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(2) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(3) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(4) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(5) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(6) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(7) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(8) The findings clearly reveal that only the Sertoli-Sertoli junctional site forms a restrictive barrier.
(9) Serum complement studies revealed decreased levels of C4, properdin, and C3.
(10) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(11) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
(12) Scatchard analyses of binding data obtained with synaptosomal preparations from 17-day-old embryos revealed two T3 binding sites.
(13) Cranial MRI revealed delayed myelination in the white matter but no brain malformation.
(14) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(15) Our Ph1-positive ALL revealed B-cell lineage leukemia, since their surface phenotype were Ia+ and CD10+ and they have rearranged immunoglobulin JH genes.
(16) Only in 17 of the 97 examinees all the examined parameters were found normal, in the rest deviations from the normal echographic picture were revealed.
(17) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(18) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(19) Determination of plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) levels in the peripubertal female rats revealed that plasma LH was increased transiently immediately after NPY administration.
(20) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.