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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.

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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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— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) - Classic Tales And Old-Fashioned Stories • Various

... relinquish His healing work. He merely made it an incident of His ministry, and did not allow it to interfere with His preaching and teaching. The Gospel narratives show a number of remarkable cures made by Him at this time, and the few recorded cases are, of course, merely occasional incidents that stand out in the minds of the people among ...

— Mystic Christianity • Yogi Ramacharaka

... unpleasant chuckles. "His mother! Lord! There'll be the deuce to pay there! Look at the way she's been behaving over his attentions to Marcia Oldham, and then just fancy how she'll take this! She evidently gave that luncheon the other day to propitiate Marcia, and invited the Mariposa to show the world that Wilfred's so-called infatuation was merely an amiable and tepid interest. I wouldn't miss seeing the fun for a farm—no, not for all those lost mines of yours. I think that I shall drop in for a cup of tea with the old lady this afternoon, ...

— The Silver Butterfly • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

... of the temperature was a subject for debate. The stronger the wind blew, the less variation did the thermometer show. Over a period of several days there might be a range of only four or five degrees. Ordinarily, this might be expected of an insular climate, but in our case it depended upon the fact that the wind remained steady from the interior of the vast frigid ...

— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... privileges than other men: perhaps she was wrong to suspect him. He might not wish his sister to visit them, except in a purely business-like way; but with him it was different. Most likely he had tea with Mrs. Trimmings sometimes, just to show he was not proud; he might even sit and chat with Mrs. Squails, and not feel compromised in the least. Oh, yes! how stupid she was to think he admired Nan, because she had intercepted a certain glance! That was her mania, thinking every one must be after Nan. ...

— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey

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