SHOW


Meaning of SHOW in English

I. verb

1.

to set out or place on view for customers

we're showing lots of long dresses this fall

Synonyms: display, offer

Related Word: afford, supply; exhibit; present, proffer, submit; deal (in), sell

2.

to reveal outwardly or make apparent

asked a question or two to show his intelligence

Synonyms: demonstrate, evidence, evince, exhibit, illustrate, manifest, mark, ostend, proclaim; compare look 4

Related Word: disclose, discover, divulge, lay out, reveal, unveil; present, project

Contrasted words: camouflage, conceal, dissemble, hide, obscure

Antonyms: disguise

3.

Synonyms: stage , mount, produce, put on

4.

to present in such a way as to invite notice, attention, and admiration

she loved to show her jewels to everyone

Synonyms: brandish, display, disport, exhibit, expose, flash, flaunt, parade, show off, trot out

Related Word: air, lay out, set out, spread; blazon, flourish, sport, vaunt

Contrasted words: belittle, deprecate, depreciate, minimize

5.

to give an exact and usually automatic reading or indication of

the speedometer shows 70 MPH

Synonyms: indicate, mark, read, record, register, say

Related Word: point (to); ring up

6.

Synonyms: look 4, exhibit

Related Word: lay out, reveal, unveil

7.

Synonyms: guide , conduct, direct, escort, lead, pilot, route, see, shepherd, steer

8.

Synonyms: establish 6, demonstrate, determine, make out, prove

Related Word: present; plead; allege

9.

Synonyms: appear 1, emerge, loom

Related Word: come, show up; materialize

10.

Synonyms: come 1, arrive, ||blow in, get, get in, reach, show up, turn up

Idioms: ||make the scene, put in an appearance, show one's face

11.

Synonyms: turn up 3, show up

II. noun

Synonyms: appearance 2, face, guise, seeming, semblance, showing, simulacrum

Related Word: likeness; effect, impression

Idioms: outward show

2.

Synonyms: mask 2, color, coloring, disguise, facade, face, front, put-on, veneer, window dressing

3.

Synonyms: display 2, array, fanfare, panoply, parade, pomp, shine

4.

Synonyms: opportunity , break, chance, look-in, occasion, opening, shot, squeak, time

5.

Synonyms: exhibition 1, demonstration, display, spectacle

6.

Synonyms: exhibition 2, exhibit, exposition, fair

7.

Synonyms: movie , cine, ||cinema, film, flick, motion picture, moving picture, photoplay, picture, picture show

8.

Synonyms: showing 1, out

Merriam Webster. Collegiate thesaurus English vocabulary.      Английский энциклопедический словарь тезаурус.