(~s, ~ing, ~ed, ~n)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If something ~s that a state of affairs exists, it gives information that proves it or makes it clear to people.
Research ~s that a high-fibre diet may protect you from bowel cancer...
These figures ~ an increase of over one million in unemployment...
It was only later that the drug was ~n to be addictive...
You’ll be given regular blood tests to ~ whether you have been infected.
VERB: V that, V n, be V-ed to-inf, V wh
2.
If a picture, chart, film, or piece of writing ~s something, it represents it or gives information about it.
Figure 4.1 ~s the respiratory system...
The cushions, ~n left, measure 20 x 12 inches and cost $39.95...
Much of the film ~s the painter simply going about his task...
Our photograph ~s how the plants will turn out.
VERB: V n, V-ed, V n -ing, V wh
3.
If you ~ someone something, you give it to them, take them to it, or point to it, so that they can see it or know what you are referring to.
Cut out this article and ~ it to your bank manager...
He ~ed me the flat he shares with Esther...
I ~ed them where the gun was...
VERB: V n to n, V n n, V n wh
4.
If you ~ someone to a room or seat, you lead them there.
Let me ~ you to my study...
I’ll ~ you the way.
VERB: V n prep/adv, V n n
5.
If you ~ someone how to do something, you do it yourself so that they can watch you and learn how to do it.
Claire ~ed us how to make a chocolate roulade...
Dr. Reichert has ~n us a new way to look at those behavior problems.
VERB: V n wh, V n n
6.
If something ~s or if you ~ it, it is visible or noticeable.
His beard was just beginning to ~ signs of grey...
Faint glimmers of daylight were ~ing through the treetops...
VERB: V n, V
7.
If you ~ a particular attitude, quality, or feeling, or if it ~s, you behave in a way that makes this attitude, quality, or feeling clear to other people.
She ~ed no interest in her children...
Ferguson was unhappy and it ~ed...
You ~ me respect...
Mr Clarke has ~n himself to be resolutely opposed to compromise...
The baby was tugging at his coat to ~ that he wanted to be picked up.
VERB: V n, V, V n n, V n to-inf, V that
8.
If something ~s a quality or characteristic or if that quality or characteristic ~s itself, it can be noticed or observed.
The story ~s a strong narrative gift and a vivid eye for detail...
How else did his hostility to women ~ itself?
VERB: V n, V pron-refl
9.
A ~ of a feeling or quality is an attempt by someone to make it clear that they have that feeling or quality.
Miners gathered in the centre of Bucharest in a ~ of support for the government...
N-COUNT: usu a N of n
10.
If you say that something is for ~, you mean that it has no real purpose and is done just to give a good impression.
The change in government is more for ~ than for real...
N-UNCOUNT
11.
If a company ~s a profit or a loss, its accounts indicate that it has made a profit or a loss.
It is the only one of the three companies expected to ~ a profit for the quarter...
VERB: V n
12.
If a person you are expecting to meet does not ~, they do not arrive at the place where you expect to meet them. (mainly AM)
There was always a chance he wouldn’t ~.
= turn up
VERB: V
•
Show up means the same as ~ .
We waited until five o’clock, but he did not ~ up...
PHRASAL VERB: V P
13.
A television or radio ~ is a programme on television or radio.
I had my own TV ~...
This is the ~ in which Loyd Grossman visits the houses of the famous.
...a popular talk ~ on a Cuban radio station...
= programme
N-COUNT: oft supp N
14.
A ~ in a theatre is an entertainment or concert, especially one that includes different items such as music, dancing, and comedy.
How about going shopping and seeing a ~ in London?...
N-COUNT
15.
If someone ~s a film or television programme, it is broadcast or appears on television or in the cinema.
The BBC World Service Television news ~ed the same film clip...
American films are ~ing at Moscow’s cinemas.
VERB: V n, V
~ing (~ings)
I gave him a private ~ing of the film.
N-COUNT
16.
A ~ is a public exhibition of things, such as works of art, fashionable clothes, or things that have been entered in a competition.
The venue for the ~ is Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre Hall...
Two complementary exhibitions are on ~ at the Africa Centre...
N-COUNT: also on N
17.
To ~ things such as works of art means to put them in an exhibition where they can be seen by the public.
50 dealers will ~ oils, watercolours, drawings and prints from 1900 to 1992.
VERB: V n
18.
A ~ home, house, or flat is one of a group of new homes. The building company decorates it and puts furniture in it, and people who want to buy one of the homes come and look round it.
ADJ: ADJ n
19.
If a question is decided by a ~ of hands, people vote on it by raising their hands to indicate whether they vote yes or no.
Parliamentary leaders agreed to take all such decisions by a ~ of hands...
Russell then asked for a ~ of hands concerning each of the targets.
PHRASE
20.
If you have something to ~ for your efforts, you have achieved something as a result of what you have done.
I’m nearly 31 and it’s about time I had something to ~ for my time in my job...
PHRASE: have inflects, PHR n
21.
You can say ‘I’ll ~ you’ to threaten or warn someone that you are going to make them admit that they are wrong.
She shook her fist. ‘I’ll ~ you,’ she said...
PHRASE
22.
If you say it just goes to ~ or it just ~s that something is the case, you mean that what you have just said or experienced demonstrates that it is the case.
This just goes to ~ that getting good grades in school doesn’t mean you’re clever...
PHRASE: PHR that, PHR n
23.
If you say that someone steals the ~, you mean that they get a lot of attention or praise because they perform better than anyone else in a ~ or other event.
Brad Pitt steals the ~ as the young man doomed by his zest for life.
PHRASE: V inflects
24.
to ~ someone the door: see door
to ~ your face: see face