Show

English Meaning

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).

1. To cause or allow to be seen; display.
2. To display for sale, in exhibition, or in competition: showed her most recent paintings.
3. To conduct; guide: showed them to the table.
4. To direct one's attention to; point out: show them the biggest squash in the garden.
5. To manifest (an emotion or condition, for example); reveal: showed displeasure at his remark; a carpet that shows wear.
6. To permit access to (a house, for example) when offering for sale or rent.
7. To reveal (oneself) as in one's behavior or condition: The old boat showed itself to be seaworthy.
8. To indicate; register: The altimeter showed that the plane was descending.
9. To demonstrate by reasoning or procedure: showed that the hypothesis was wrong; a film that showed how to tune a piano.
10. To demonstrate to by reasoning or procedure; inform or prove to: showed him how to fix the camera; showed her that it could really happen.
11. To grant; bestow: showed no mercy to the traitors.
12. Law To plead; allege: show cause.
13. To be or become visible or evident.
14. Slang To make an appearance; show up: didn't show for her appointment.
15. To be exhibited publicly: What's showing at the movie theater tonight?
16. To give a performance or present an exhibition.
17. Sports To finish third or better in a horserace or dog race.
18. A display; a manifestation: made a show of strength.
19. A trace or indication, as of oil in a well.
20. The discharge of bloody mucus from the vagina indicating the start of labor.
21. The first discharge of blood in menstruation.
22. A false appearance; a pretense: only a show of kindness.
23. A striking appearance or display; a spectacle.
24. A pompous or ostentatious display.
25. Display or outward appearance: This antique tea service is just for show. His smile was for show.
26. A public exhibition or entertainment.
27. An exposition for the display or demonstration of commercial products: an auto show.
28. A usually competitive exhibition of domestic animals: won first place at the cat show.
29. A radio or television program.
30. A movie.
31. A theatrical troupe or company.
32. Informal An affair or undertaking: ran the whole show.
33. Sports Third place at the finish, as in a horserace.
34. show off To display or behave in an ostentatious or conspicuous way.
35. show up To be clearly visible.
36. show up To put in an appearance; arrive.
37. show up To expose or reveal the true character or nature of: showed their efforts up as a waste of time.
38. show up Informal To surpass, as in ability or intelligence.
39. get the show on the road Slang To get started.
40. show (one's) hand Games To display one's cards with faces up.
41. show (one's) hand To state one's intentions or reveal one's resources, especially when previously hidden.
42. show (one's) heels To depart from quickly; flee.
43. show (someone) a good time To occupy (someone) with amusing things; entertain.