the speech act of making something evident

A rent made by ripping or tearing; a laceration; the place so ripped, A wicker basket in which to carry fish, The act of ripping, intransitive verb_ Informal To move quickly or violently, To split or saw (wood) along the grain, To cause to be pulled apart, as by an accident, transitive verb_ To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing, To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up, To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

A revealing; disclosure, In architecture, one of the vertical faces of a window-opening or a doorway, included between the face of the wall and that of the window- or door-frame, when such frame is present, The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb, verb_ make visible, make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret, disclose directly or through prophets, transitive verb_ To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show, Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency), To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden

Something discovered, a productive insight, (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case

Something uncovered; a revelation, the speech act of making something evident, The hatching of the young from the egg, as in birds and reptiles, or the escape of insects from the pupa-case

To expose to view, as by removing a cover; uncover, To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose, verb_ disclose to view as by removing a cover, make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret, noun_ Disclosure; discovery

Done or communicated in confidence; secret, entrusted with the confidence of another, Containing information, the unauthorized disclosure of which poses a threat to national security.