{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ʃoʊ" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/show.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/show.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/show.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/show.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English schewen, from Old English scēawian (“to look, look at, exhibit, display”), 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.\nCognate with Scots shaw (“to show”), Dutch schouwen (“to inspect, view”), German schauen (“to see, behold”), Danish skue (“to behold”). Related to sheen.\nWider cognates include Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos), Latin caveō whence English caution, and Sanskrit कवि (kaví, “seer, prophet, bard”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).\nThe car's dull finish showed years of neglect.\nAll he had to show for four years of attendance at college was a framed piece of paper.\n1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To bestow; to confer.\nto show mercy; to show favour; (dialectal) show me the salt please" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.\n2012 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.\n2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns\nA report this year in the Journal of Geophysical Research showed that the glacier has lost 60 percent of its mass." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To guide or escort.\nCould you please show him on his way. He has overstayed his welcome.\nThey showed us in." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.\nYour bald patch is starting to show.\nAt length, his gloom showed.\n1690, Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: , London: Jo. Hindmarsh, , →OCLC, (please specify the page number):Just such she shows before a rising storm.\n1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. , volume II, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, page 151:All round a hedge upshoots, and shows / At distance like a little wood.\n1913, 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." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.\nWe waited for an hour, but they never showed." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.\nIn the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, card games) To reveal one's hand of cards.\n2017, Nathan Schwiethale, Ace High: Mastering Low Stakes Poker Cash Games (page 70)\nHe called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.\nc. 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :My lord of York, it better showed with you." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.\nThere were a thousand people at the show.\n1913, 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." }, { "mean": "(countable) An exhibition of items.\nart show;  dog show" }, { "mean": "(countable) A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.\nradio show;  television show\nThey performed in the show.\nI spotted my neighbour on the morning TV show.\n2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)\nEvery day I do my morning show.\nAudio (US)(file)" }, { "mean": "(countable) A movie.\nLet's catch a show." }, { "mean": "(Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural show.\nI'm taking the kids to the show on Tuesday.\n1924 October 6, The Examiner, page 2, column 6:E. C. McEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds" }, { "mean": "A project or presentation.\nLet's get on with the show.\nLet's get this show on the road.\nThey went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors.\nIt was Apple's usual dog and pony show." }, { "mean": "(countable) A demonstration.\nshow of force" }, { "mean": "(uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases \"all show\" and \"for show\".)\n1725–1728, , “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: J and R Tonson , published 1741, →OCLC:I envy none their pageantry and show.\nThe dog sounds ferocious but it's all show." }, { "mean": "Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.\nc. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :So may the outward shows be least themselves:\nThe world is still deceived with ornament." }, { "mean": "(baseball, with \"the\") The major leagues.\nHe played AA ball for years, but never made it to the show." }, { "mean": "(mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp." }, { "mean": "(archaic) Pretence." }, { "mean": "(archaic) Sign, token, or indication." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Luke 20:46-47:Beware of the scribes, which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers.\n1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:He through the midst unmarked, In show plebeian angel militant Of lowest order, passed." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Plausibility." }, { "mean": "(medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor." }, { "mean": "(military, slang) A battle; local conflict. ]\n1918, Denis Garstin, The Shilling Soldiers‎, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 116:A subaltern, wearing a glengarry, came out of a house, playing with the nose of a shell. 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