exploitive | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitatory |
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exploration | (noun) a careful systematic search | - |
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(noun) to travel for the purpose of discovery | Synonyms: geographic expedition |
(noun) a systematic consideration | - |
explorative | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: exploratory |
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exploratory | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: explorative |
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explore | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: research, search |
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(verb) travel to or penetrate into | - |
(verb) inquire into a subject in detail | - |
(verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | - |
explorer | (noun) someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) | Synonyms: adventurer |
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explosion | (noun) the act of exploding or bursting | Synonyms: burst |
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(noun) a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball | - |
(noun) the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant | Synonyms: plosion |
(noun) a sudden outburst | - |
(noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: blowup, detonation |
(noun) a sudden great increase | - |
(noun) the noise caused by an explosion | - |
explosive | (adjective) serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst | - |
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(adjective) sudden and loud | - |
(adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: volatile |
(noun) a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck | - |
explosively | (adverb) suddenly and rapidly | - |
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(adverb) in an explosive manner | - |
expo | (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: exhibition, exposition |
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exponent | (noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: index, power |
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(noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, proponent |
(noun) someone who expounds and interprets or explains | - |
exponential | (adjective) of or involving exponents | - |
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(noun) a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent | Synonyms: exponential function |
exponentially | (adverb) in an exponential manner | - |
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exponentiation | (noun) the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power | Synonyms: involution |
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export | (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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(verb) cause to spread in another part of the world | - |
(verb) sell or transfer abroad | - |
(verb) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs | - |
exportable | (adjective) suitable for export | - |
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exportation | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exporting |
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(noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: export |
exporter | (noun) a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale) | - |
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exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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expose | (noun) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud | Synonyms: unmasking |
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(verb) abandon by leaving out in the open air | - |
(verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: debunk |
(verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
(verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, peril, queer, scupper |
(verb) remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body | Synonyms: uncover |
(verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
(verb) expose to light, of photographic film | - |
(verb) expose or make accessible to some action or influence | - |
(verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: disclose, uncover |
exposed | (adjective) not covered with clothing | Synonyms: uncovered |
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(adjective) with no protection or shield | Synonyms: open |
exposit | (verb) state | Synonyms: expound, set forth |
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(verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
exposition | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: expounding |
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(noun) an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse | - |
(noun) (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur | - |
(noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: exhibition, expo |
expositive | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expository |
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expositor | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expounder |
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expository | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expositive |
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expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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expostulation | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration |
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(noun) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof | - |
exposure | (noun) abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving an infant out in the open) | - |
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(noun) the act of exposing film to light | - |
(noun) presentation to view in an open or public manner | - |
(noun) the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience | - |
(noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: photo, photograph, pic, picture |
(noun) vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain | - |
(noun) aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces | - |
(noun) the disclosure of something secret | - |
(noun) the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate | - |
(noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed | Synonyms: vulnerability |
expound | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, lucubrate |
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(verb) state | Synonyms: exposit, set forth |
expounder | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expositor |
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expounding | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: exposition |
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express | (adjective) not tacit or implied | - |
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(adjective) without unnecessary stops | - |
(noun) rapid transport of goods | Synonyms: expressage |
(noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: limited |
(noun) mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system | Synonyms: express mail |
(adverb) by express | - |
(verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
(verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, show |
(verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, convey |
(verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: state |
(verb) send by rapid transport or special messenger service | - |
(verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: extract, press out |
(verb) manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait) | - |
expressage | (noun) rapid transport of goods | Synonyms: express |
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expressed | (adjective) precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication | Synonyms: explicit |
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(adjective) communicated in words | Synonyms: uttered, verbalised, verbalized, voiced |
expressible | (adjective) capable of being expressed | - |
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expression | (noun) the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing | - |
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(noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, face, facial expression, look |
(noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: locution, saying |
(noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: formulation |
(noun) expression without words | Synonyms: manifestation, reflection, reflexion |
(noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: formula |
(noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: verbal expression, verbalism |
(noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: construction, grammatical construction |
(noun) (genetics) the process of expressing a gene | - |
expressionism | (noun) an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality | - |
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expressionist | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionistic |
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(noun) an artist who is an adherent of expressionism | - |
expressionistic | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionist |
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expressionless | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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expressive | (adjective) performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion | - |
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(adjective) characterized by expression | - |
expressively | (adverb) with expression; in an expressive manner | - |
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expressiveness | (noun) the quality of being expressive | - |
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expressly | (adverb) with specific intentions; for the express purpose | - |
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expressway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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expropriate | (verb) deprive of possessions | - |
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expropriation | (noun) taking out of an owner's hands (especially taking property by public authority) | - |
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expulsion | (noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | Synonyms: ejection, forcing out, projection |
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(noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, riddance |
(noun) squeezing out by applying pressure | Synonyms: extrusion |
expunction | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunging |
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expunge | (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, scratch, strike |
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expunging | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunction |
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expurgate | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten |
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expurgated | (adjective) having material deleted | - |
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expurgation | (noun) the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | Synonyms: castration |
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expurgator | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, bowdlerizer |
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