show

• shew (archaic)
• shewe (obsolete)

From Middle English schewen, schawen, scheawen, from Old English scēawian (“to look, look at, observe, gaze, behold, see, look on with favor, look favorably on, regard, have respect for, look at with care, consider, inspect, examine, scrutinize, reconnoiter, look out, look for, seek for, select, choose, provide, show (favor, respect, etc.), exhibit, display, grant, decree”), from Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (“to look, see”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”); see haw, gaum, caveat, caution. Cognate with Scots shaw (“to show”), Saterland Frisian scoe (“to look, behold”), Dutch schouwen (“to inspect, view”), German schauen (“to see, behold”), Danish skue (“to behold”), Icelandic skygna (“to spy, behold, see”). Related to sheen.

• (Received Pronunciation): IPA^(key): /ʃəʊ/
• (General American): enPR: shō, IPA^(key): /ʃoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

show (third-person singular simple present shows, present participle showing, simple past showed or shew, past participle shown or (rare) showed)

1. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).

   The car's dull finish showed years of neglect.

   All he had to show for four years of attendance at college was a framed piece of paper.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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.

2. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.

   to show mercy; to show favour; (dialectal) show me the salt please

3. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     A report this year in the Journal of Geophysical Research showed that the glacier has lost 60 percent of its mass.

4. (transitive) To guide or escort.

   Could you please show him on his way. He has overstayed his welcome.

   They showed us in.

5. (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.

   Your bald patch is starting to show.

   At length, his gloom showed.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden

     Just such she shows before a rising storm.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Tennyson

     All round a hedge upshoots, and shows / At distance like a little wood.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     '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.

6. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.

   We waited for an hour, but they never showed.

7. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
8. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.

   In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars.

9. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     My lord of York, it better showed with you.

• The past participle shown was uncommon before the 19th century, but is now the preferred form in standard English. In the UK, showed is regarded as archaic or dialectal. In the US, it is considered a standard variant form, but shown is more common. Garner's Modern American Usage favors shown over showed as past participle and claims it is mandatory for passives.
• In the past, shew was used as a past-tense form and shewed as a past participle of this verb; both forms are now archaic.

• (display): display, indicate, point out, reveal, exhibit
• (indicate a fact to be true): demonstrate, prove
• (put in an appearance): arrive, show up

• (display): conceal, cover up, hide
• (indicate a fact to be true): disprove, refute

• showcase
• showdown

show (countable and uncountable, plural shows)

1. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

2. (countable) An exhibition of items.

   art show;  dog show

3. (countable) A demonstration.

   show of force

4. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.

   radio show;  television show

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Every day I do my morning show.

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5. (countable) A movie.

   Let's catch a show.

6. A project or presentation.

   Let's get on with the show.   Let's get this show on the road.   They went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors.   It was Apple's usual dog and pony show.

7. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
   • Young

     I envy none their pageantry and show.

   The dog sounds ferocious but it's all show.

8. Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2

     So may the outward shows be least themselves:

     The world is still deceived with ornament.

9. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.

   He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the show.

10. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)

11. (archaic) Pretence.
12. (archaic) Sign, token, or indication.
13. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
    • Bible, Luke xx. 46. 47

      Beware of the scribes, […] which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers.

    • John Milton

      He through the midst unmarked, / In show plebeian angel militant / Of lowest order, passed.

14. (obsolete) Plausibility.
15. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

• (exhibition): exhibition, exposition
• (demonstration): demonstration, illustration, proof
• (broadcast program(me)): program(me)
• (mere display with no substance): façade, front, superficiality
• (baseball): big leagues

• showman
• showpiece
• show-stopper
• show-stopping

• Hows, how's, hows, who's, whos

From English show.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃou̯/, [ˈʃo̞u̯], IPA^(key): /ˈʃoː/, [ˈʃo̞ː], IPA^(key): /ˈsoː/, [ˈs̠o̞ː]

show

1. show (entertainment)

In plural usually substituted with a synonym, as the word does not easily fit into any Finnish declension category.

• jääshow
• lavashow
• muotishow
• ravintolashow
• televisioshow
• valoshow

• esitys, näytös

• IPA^(key): /ʃo/

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show m (plural shows)

1. (Anglicism) show

From English show. [1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃoː]

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• Homophone: só
• Hyphenation: show

show (plural show-k)

1. show (entertainment, programme, production, performance)

Borrowed from English show.

• IPA^(key): /ʂɔʋ/, /ʂɔu/
• Rhymes: -ɔʋ, -ɔu

show n (definite singular showet, indefinite plural show, definite plural showa or showene)

1. a show (play, concert, entertainment)

• moteshow
• sceneshow

• “show” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English show.

• IPA^(key): /ʂɔʋ/, /ʂɔu/
• Rhymes: -ɔʋ, -ɔu

show n (definite singular showet, indefinite plural show, definite plural showa)

1. a show (play, concert, entertainment)

• moteshow
• sceneshow

• “show” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• chou (rare), xou (rare)

Borrowed from English show.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃow/

show m (plural shows)

1. show (a entertainment performance event)
2. (slang, often used in dar um show) the action of crying or yelling out loud in order to protest or complain about something, often in the context of a discussion or argument

• espetáculo

• dar um show
• show de bola

show (invariable, comparable)

1. (Brazil, slang) amazing; awesome

• espetacular, excelente, maravilhoso

From English.

show m (plural shows)

1. show
2. (informal) A scandal
3. spectacle
4. An exhibition motivated action or thing

From English.

show c

1. show; a play, dance, or other entertainment.