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Show

verb

(past showed; past part. shown; pres. part. showing)

Give an exhibition of to an interested audience. Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, present. "We will demo the new software in Washington"

Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment. Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, shew. "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"

Provide evidence for. Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, testify. "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"

Make visible or noticeable. "Show me your etchings, please"

Show in, or as in, a picture. Synonyms: depict, picture, render. "The face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"

Give expression to. Synonyms: evince, express.

Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively. Synonyms: designate, indicate, point. "He pointed to the empty parking space" , "He indicated his opponents"

Be or become visible or noticeable. Synonym: show up. "The dirty side will show"

Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments. Synonyms: read, record, register. "The gauge read 'empty'"

10.

Give evidence of, as of records.

11.

Take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums. Synonym: usher.

12.

Finish third or better in a horse or dog race.

noun

The act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining.

Something intended to communicate a particular impression. Synonym: display. "A show of impatience" , "A good show of looking interested"

A social event involving a public performance or entertainment.

Pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression. Synonym: appearance. "That ceremony is just for show"

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— A Nobleman's Nest • Ivan Turgenieff

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— The Melting of Molly • Maria Thompson Daviess

... back and we at the head of our regiments once more. The Bourbons had already lost any hold they ever had upon the country, as was shown a few years afterward, when Paris rose against them and they were hunted for the third time out of France. Napoleon had but to show himself on the coast, and he would have marched without firing a musket to the capital, exactly as he had done when he ...

— The Adventures of Gerard • Arthur Conan Doyle

... sauntering along the shadow of the cliff. As the moon has also gone down, it is too dark to distinguish their faces. Still, there is light enough reflected from the luminous surface of the sea to show that neither is in sailor garb, but the habiliments of landsmen—this the national costume of Spanish California. On their heads are sombreros of ample brim; wide trousers—cahoneras—flap loose around their ankles; while over their shoulders they carry cloaks, ...

— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid

... on the same level. For example if you raise or lower the eye from the distance point f you must do the same with the direction point t. And if the point f shows how far the eye is distant from the square plane but does not show on which side it is placed—and, if in the same way, the point t show s the direction and not the distance, in order to ascertain both you must use both points and they will be one and the same thing. If the eye f could see a perfect square of which all the ...

— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci

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