Definition of "show"

show

/ʃəʊ/

verb
third-person singular simple present shows, present participle showing, simple past showed or (archaic) shew, past participle shown or (now rare, US) showed
1. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
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  Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
2. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
3. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
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  He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
  2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162
  A report this year in the Journal of Geophysical Research showed that the glacier has lost 60 percent of its mass.
  2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
4. (transitive) To guide or escort.
5. (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
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  Just such she shows before a rising storm.
  1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], (please specify the page number)
  All round a hedge upshoots, and shows / At distance like a little wood.
  1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], page 151
  'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
6. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
7. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
8. (intransitive, motor racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
9. (intransitive, card games) To reveal one's hand of cards.
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  He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river.
  2017, Nathan Schwiethale, Ace High: Mastering Low Stakes Poker Cash Games, page 70
10. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
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  My lord of York, it better showed with you.
  c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]
noun
countable and uncountable, plural shows
1. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
  Quotations
  Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
2. (countable) An exhibition of items.
3. (countable) A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
  Quotations
  Every day I do my morning show. Audio (US)(file)
  2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
4. (countable) A movie.
5. (Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural show.
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  E. C. McEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds
  1924 October 6, The Examiner, Launceston, page 2, column 6
6. A project or presentation.
7. (countable) A demonstration.
8. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
  Quotations
  I envy none their pageantry and show.
  1725–1728, published 1741
9. Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
  Quotations
  So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.
  c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
10. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
11. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
12. (archaic) Pretence.
13. (archaic) Sign, token, or indication.
14. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
  Quotations
  Beware of the scribes, […] which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Luke 20:46-47
  He through the midst unmarked, In show plebeian angel militant Of lowest order, passed.
  1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
15. (obsolete) Plausibility.
16. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
17. (military, slang) A battle; local conflict. ]
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  A subaltern, wearing a glengarry, came out of a house, playing with the nose of a shell. He walked a little way with me.“Going into the show?”
  1918, Denis Garstin, The Shilling Soldiers‎, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 116

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