What's the difference between disguise and reveal?

Disguise


Definition:

  • (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should not be disguised as foreign aid funding,” she said, accusing the former government of introducing the now-repealed carbon tax to pay for contributions to the fund.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.