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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Show \Show\, verb (used with an object) [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).
Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest. --Matt. viii. 4.
Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more? --Milton.
2. To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.
Shew them the way wherein they must walk. --Ex. xviii. 20.
If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away. --1 Sam. xx. 13.
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.
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.
I 'll show my duty by my timely care. --Dryden.
5. To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.
Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me. --Ex. xx. 6.
{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.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
1. Appearance; display; exhibition.
2. Presentation of facts; statement. --J. S. Mill.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: the display of a motion picture [syn: {screening}, {showing}, {viewing}]
2: something shown to the public; "the museum had many exhibits of oriental art" [syn: {display}, {exhibit}, {showing}]
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