show
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
How often you will meet it
Rank 426 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 47,161 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.022% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience also: demo, exhibit, present, demonstrate She shows her dogs frequentlyWe will demo the new software in Washington
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment also: prove, demonstrate, establish, shew The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compoundThe mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture
- provide evidence for also: testify, bear witness, prove, evidence The blood test showed that he was the fatherHer behavior testified to her incompetence
- make visible or noticeable She showed her talent for cookingShow me your etchings, please
- show in, or as in, a picture also: picture, depict, render This scene depicts country lifethe face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting
- give expression to also: express, evince She showed her disappointment
show in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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And it's wonderful what wisdom the boys show.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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I'll show you the back parts if ye like.
Actions and reactions · Rudyard Kipling · Chapter 1
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It will show in you a supremacy of judgment.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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Any symptoms going to show that patient might mistake another man's wife for his own.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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Since as in night’s deck-watch ye show, Why, lads, so silent here to me, Your watchmate of times long ago?
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1