pon-, posit-, pos-, -poning, -poned, -ponency, -ponent, -ponement, -pound

1. Something, such as money, that is entrusted for safekeeping, as in a bank.
2. A partial or initial payment of a cost or debt: "She left a $300 deposit toward the purchase of a stereo system.
3. A sum of money given as security for an item acquired for temporary use.
4. Something deposited; especially, by a natural process; such as, the concentration of mineral matter or sediment in a layer, vein, or pocket: "There were rich deposits of oil and natural gas in the area. "
5. In physiology, an accumulation of organic or inorganic material; such as, a lipid or mineral, in a body tissue, structure, or fluid.
6. A sediment or precipitate that has settled out of a solution.
7. A coating or crust left on a surface as a result of evaporation or electrolysis.

1. The act of deposing, as from high office.
2. The act of depositing; especially, the laying down of matter by a natural process.
3. Something deposited; a deposit.
4. In law, a testimony under oath; especially, a statement by a witness that is written down or recorded for use in a court of law at a later date.

1. A depository (DEP oh) for goods.
2. A station (DEE poh) where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods.
3. A storage installation (DEP oh) for military equipment and supplies, or a station for assembling military recruits and forwarding them to active units.

1. To move or place to the right.
2. Displacement to the right.

1. The act or process of getting rid of something.
2. An electric device installed below a kitchen sink that grinds garbage so it can be flushed away. 3. The liberty or power to dispose of: "We have funds at our disposal to spend as we wish.
4. Final placement or destruction of toxic, radioactive, or other wastes; surplus or banned pesticides or other chemicals; polluted soils; and drums containing hazardous materials from removal actions or accidental releases.

Disposal may be accomplished through use of approved secure landfills, surface impoundments, land farming, deep-well injection, ocean dumping, or incineration.

A well, often a depleted oil or gas well, into which waste fluids can be injected for safe disposal.

1. To place or to set in a particular order; to arrange.
2. To put (business affairs, for example) into correct, definitive, or a conclusive form.
3. To put into a willing or receptive frame of mind; to incline.
4. To transfer or part with, as by giving or selling.
5. To get rid of; to throw out.

1. A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; temperament.
2. The act or means of getting rid of something.
3. An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others.
4. A final settlement: "The lawyer made a final disposition of the deceased's property.
5. An act of disposing; a bestowal or transfer to another.

1. To deposit a substance; especially, a metal, on an electrode by using electrolysis.
2. A substance deposited by using electrolysis.

An electrolytic process in which a metal is deposited at the cathode from a solution of its ions; used in the manufacture of semiconductors.

1. Someone who expounds or interprets.
2. Anyone who speaks for, represents, or advocates: "The senator is an exponent for getting out of the war."
3. A person or thing that is a representative, an advocate, a type, or a symbol of something: "Abraham Lincoln is considered an exponent of American democracy."
4. A performer or practitioner of an art or skill; especially, someone who is regarded as an excellent example of how something should be done.

1. Rapidly becoming greater in size: "There is an exponential increase in killings in Iraq."
2. A description of a mathematical entity; such as, a curve, a function, an equation, or a series that contains, is expressed as, or involves numbers or quantities raised to an exponent.

In an exponential manner: "Terror is growing exponentially in the Middle East."

1. To make known (something discreditable); such as, to reveal the guilt or wrongdoing of someone; to expose a criminal.
2. To put someone or something in a vulnerable or potentially dangerous situation: "He exposed other passengers on the place to his contagious lung disease."
3. To cause someone to have a personal and often enlightening experience of something: "We wanted to expose our children to the wonders of nature at Yellowstone National Park."
4. To uncover something or turn it over with the result that it can be seen: "The doctor asked her to expose the other side of her arm so he could see the wound."
5. To reveal that someone has done something wrong; especially, by publishing or broadcasting the information to the public.
6. To reveal part of one's body indecently; such as, to uncover a part of the body for public display in an indecent way.
7. To allow light to fall on light-sensitive material; such as, photographic film, usually by opening a camera shutter.
8. Etymology: before 1422, exsporten, "lay open, set forth, make known"; was borrowed from Middle French exposer, a replacement (by confusion with poser, "to place, lay down, pose") of Latin exponere, "to set forth, to expound".

In some instances, expose may be a back formation from the earlier exposition.