The difference between Disclose and Publish

When used as verbs, disclose means to open up, unfasten, whereas publish means to issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.


Disclose is also noun with the meaning: a disclosure.

check bellow for the other definitions of Disclose and Publish

  1. Disclose as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To open up, unfasten.

  2. Disclose as a verb (transitive):

    To uncover, physically expose to view.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: reveaunveil"

  3. Disclose as a verb (transitive):

    To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: reveaunveidivulge publish impart"

  1. Disclose as a noun (obsolete):

    A disclosure

  1. Publish as a verb (transitive):

    To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.

    Examples:

    "The ''Times'' published the investigative piece about the governor both in print and online."

    "Most of the sketches Faulkner published in 1925 appeared in the Sunday magazine section of the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune''."

    "The State combined public information strategies and published billboards, pamphlets, and newsletter articles under the campaign theme, Give 'Em the Boot."

  2. Publish as a verb (transitive):

    To announce to the public.

    Examples:

    "The Secretary of Health and Human Services published a press release on May 22, 2013."

    "The Bolshevik government published an announcement of the tsar's death"

    "No newspaper published the victim's name."

  3. Publish as a verb (transitive):

    To issue the work of (an author).

    Examples:

    "Grove Press published many avant-garde authors."

  4. Publish as a verb (Internet, transitive):

    To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.

  5. Publish as a verb (intransitive):

    To issue a medium (e.g. publication).

    Examples:

    "Major city papers still publish daily."

  6. Publish as a verb (intransitive):

    To have one's work accepted for a publication.

    Examples:

    "She needs to publish in order to get tenure."

  7. Publish as a verb (intransitive, of content):

    To be made available in a printed publication or other medium.

    Examples:

    "The article first published online, then in print the next day."

  8. Publish as a verb (Internet, intransitive):

    To convert data of a Web page to HTML in a local directory and copy it to the Web site on a remote system.