offenlegen — meaning in English

English meaning

• denote verb To be a sign or indication of something.
• unfold verb To open out something that was folded.
• unravel verb To untangle or separate threads that have become knotted or woven together.

Senses

offenlegen is used for these senses in English:

• denote (transitive) To make overt.
• lay open (patents, Japan and South Korea) To publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration.
• unfold (intransitive) To turn out; to happen; to develop.
• unfold (transitive) To lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to reveal.
• unravel (also, reflexive) To clear (something) from complication or difficulty; to investigate and solve (a mystery, a problem, etc.); to disentangle, to unfold, to work out.

denote — full definition

1. verb To be a sign or indication of something.
2. verb To mean or represent something literally, as a word or symbol does.

unfold — full definition

1. verb To open out something that was folded.
2. verb To gradually happen or develop, especially as new details become known.
3. verb To reveal or explain something step by step.

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