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Showing

noun

1.

The display of a motion picture. Synonyms: screening, viewing.

2.

Something shown to the public. Synonyms: display, exhibit.

Show

verb

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

1.

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

2.

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"

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Give expression to. Synonyms: evince, express.

7.

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"

8.

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

9.

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.

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"Showing" Quotes from Famous Books

... was published in six small volumes, from 1792 to 1796. It was a result of a newly awakened interest in the real world round about us and represented the profound reaction against the "fantastic visions" and "sweetmeats" of popular literature. The main purpose was to give instruction by showing things as they really are. The plan of the book is very simple. The Fairbornes, with a large "progeny of children, boys and girls," kept a sort of open house for friends and relatives. Many of these visitors, accustomed to writing, ...

— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... i passed Beany the peeple in his boat sed dont that Shute boy row well, i wish he was rowing this boat. if he was we wood get there sum time today. and Beany was mad and i heard him say huh old Plupy is only showing off. ...

— Brite and Fair • Henry A. Shute

... while Paddy went back with the black. He soon returned to the cave, when he told me that Pullingo had, without hesitation or the slightest appearance of fear, grasped the rope and begun the ascent, showing as much activity as a monkey, or, as he observed, as if he had been born and bred at sea. He watched him till he had climbed safely over the top of the cliff; when a shout from above told him that my ...

— Twice Lost • W.H.G. Kingston

... asleep. Pikne is afraid to apply for aid to the Old Father, for fear of being punished for losing it, but recovers it by an artifice similar to that employed in the present story. This is interesting as showing Pikne to be only a subordinate deity. Loewe considers the Thunderer's musical ...

— The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country • William Forsell Kirby

... in privatization and budgetary reform, Zambia's economy is showing little improvement. Inflation, while slowing somewhat, continues to be a major concern to the CHILUBA government. Four of Zambia's 20 banks collapsed in 1995, and the nation's debt stood at about $7 billion. Zambia's copper mining sector, which accounts for over 80% of the nation's foreign ...

— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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