Showing
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Show \Show\, v. t. [imp. {Showed}; p. p. {Shown}or {Showed}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Showing}. It is sometimes written {shew},
{shewed}, {shewn}, {shewing}.] [OE. schowen, shewen, schewen,
shawen, AS. sce['a]wian, to look, see, view; akin to OS.
scaw?n, OFries. skawia, D. schouwen, OHG. scouw?n, G.
schauen, Dan. skue, Sw. sk?da, Icel. sko?a, Goth. usskawjan
to waken, skuggwa a mirror, Icel. skuggy shade, shadow, L.
cavere to be on one's guard, Gr. ??? to mark, perceive, hear,
Skr. kavi wise. Cf. {Caution}, {Scavenger}, {Sheen}.]
1. To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to
display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and
often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing
seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your
colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to
customers).
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Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest. --Matt.
viii. 4.
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Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise
Magnificence; and what can heaven show more?
--Milton.
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2. To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to
reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.
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Shew them the way wherein they must walk. --Ex.
xviii. 20.
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If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will
shew it thee, and send thee away. --1 Sam. xx.
13.
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3. Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence,
to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a
person into a parlor; to show one to the door.
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4. To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or
reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to
evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the
causes of an event.
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I 'll show my duty by my timely care. --Dryden.
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5. To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.
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Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me.
--Ex. xx. 6.
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{To show forth}, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim.
{To show his paces}, to exhibit the gait, speed, or the like;
-- said especially of a horse.
{To show off}, to exhibit ostentatiously.
{To show up}, to expose. [Colloq.]
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
150 Moby Thesaurus words for "showing":
Christophanic, Satanophanic, angelophanic, apocalyptic, apparent,
apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, bared,
beholdable, betraying, characterization, coming, coming into being,
coming-forth, demonstrating, demonstration, demonstrative,
denomination, denotation, denudated, denuded, designation,
detectable, differentiation, discernible, disclosed, disclosing,
disclosive, disclosure, display, displaying, divested, emergence,
enactment, epiphanic, epiphany, evident, evidential, evincive,
exhibit, exhibition, exhibitive, exposed, exposed to view,
exposing, exposition, expositional, expository, exposure,
expression, expressive, eye-opening, face, fingering, forthcoming,
guise, hanging out, hint, identification, in evidence,
in full view, in plain sight, in view, incarnating, incarnation,
incarnational, indication, indicative, indicativeness, indicatory,
insight, issuance, laid bare, manifest, manifestation,
manifestative, materialization, materializing, meaning, naked,
naming, noticeable, observable, occurrence, open, open to view,
opening, ostentation, out, outcropping, perceivable, perceptible,
performance, picking out, pneumatophanic, pointing, pointing out,
pointing to, presentation, presentational, presentment, production,
projection, promulgatory, realization, recognizable, record,
representation, retrospective, revealed, revealing, revelation,
revelational, revelatory, rise, rising, seeable, seeming,
selection, semblance, show, showing forth, signification,
simulacrum, specification, stripped, suggestion, symptomaticness,
talkative, theophanic, theophany, to be seen, unclouded,
unconcealed, uncovered, undisguised, unfolding, unfoldment,
unhidden, unveiled, unveiling, varnishing day, vernissage,
viewable, visible, visual, witnessable
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