'Showing' definitions:
Definition of 'showing'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Showing'
From: GCIDE
- Show \Show\, v. t. [imp. Showed; p. p. Shownor Showed; p. pr. & vb. n. Showing. It is sometimes written shew, shewed, shewn, shewing.] [OE. schowen, shewen, schewen, shawen, AS. sce['a]wian, to look, see, view; akin to OS. scaw?n, OFries. skawia, D. schouwen, OHG. scouw?n, G. schauen, Dan. skue, Sw. sk?da, Icel. sko?a, Goth. usskawjan to waken, skuggwa a mirror, Icel. skuggy shade, shadow, L. cavere to be on one's guard, Gr. ??? to mark, perceive, hear, Skr. kavi wise. Cf. Caution, Scavenger, Sheen.]
- 1. 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). [1913 Webster]
- Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest. --Matt. viii. 4. [1913 Webster]
- Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs. [1913 Webster]
- Shew them the way wherein they must walk. --Ex. xviii. 20. [1913 Webster]
- If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away. --1 Sam. xx. 13. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event. [1913 Webster]
- I 'll show my duty by my timely care. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor. [1913 Webster]
- Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me. --Ex. xx. 6. [1913 Webster]
- To show forth, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim.
- To show his paces, to exhibit the gait, speed, or the like; -- said especially of a horse.
- To show off, to exhibit ostentatiously.
- To show up, to expose. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Showing'
From: GCIDE
- Showing \Show"ing\, n.
- 1. Appearance; display; exhibition. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Presentation of facts; statement. --J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'showing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- angelophanic,
- apocalyptic,
- apparent,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- appearing,
- arising,
- avatar,
- bared,
- beholdable,
- betraying,
- characterization,
- Christophanic,
- coming,
- coming into being,
- coming-forth,
- demonstrating,
- demonstration,
- demonstrative,
- denomination,
- denotation,
- denudated,
- denuded,
- designation,
- detectable,
- differentiation,
- discernible,
- disclosed,
- disclosing,
- disclosive,
- disclosure,
- display,
- displaying,
- divested,
- emergence,
- enactment,
- epiphanic,
- epiphany,
- evident,
- evidential,
- evincive,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitive,
- exposed,
- exposed to view,
- exposing,
- exposition,
- expositional,
- expository,
- exposure,
- expression,
- expressive,
- eye-opening,
- face,
- fingering,
- forthcoming,
- guise,
- hanging out,
- hint,
- identification,
- in evidence,
- in full view,
- in plain sight,
- in view,
- incarnating,
- incarnation,
- incarnational,
- indication,
- indicative,
- indicativeness,
- indicatory,
- insight,
- issuance,
- laid bare,
- manifest,
- manifestation,
- manifestative,
- materialization,
- materializing,
- meaning,
- naked,
- naming,
- noticeable,
- observable,
- occurrence,
- open,
- open to view,
- opening,
- ostentation,
- out,
- outcropping,
- perceivable,
- perceptible,
- performance,
- picking out,
- pneumatophanic,
- pointing,
- pointing out,
- pointing to,
- presentation,
- presentational,
- presentment,
- production,
- projection,
- promulgatory,
- realization,
- recognizable,
- record,
- representation,
- retrospective,
- revealed,
- revealing,
- revelation,
- revelational,
- revelatory,
- rise,
- rising,
- Satanophanic,
- seeable,
- seeming,
- selection,
- semblance,
- show,
- showing forth,
- signification,
- simulacrum,
- specification,
- stripped,
- suggestion,
- symptomaticness,
- talkative,
- theophanic,
- theophany,
- to be seen,
- unclouded,
- unconcealed,
- uncovered,
- undisguised,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unhidden,
- unveiled,
- unveiling,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage,
- viewable,
- visible,
- visual,
- witnessable
Words containing 'Showing'
- Show,
- Showed,
- To show off,
- To show up,
- show off,
- show up,
- showing off,
- Bench show,
- Cattle show,
- Dumb show,
- Peep show,
- Puppet show,
- Show Low,
- Show bill,
- Show box,
- Show card,
- Show case,
- Show glass,
- Show of hands,
- Show stone,
- To show forth,
- To show his paces,
- To show quarter,
- To show the heels,
- To show the teeth,
- Variety show,
- chat show,
- dog show,
- false show,
- floor show,
- galanty show,
- game show,
- horse show,
- ice show,
- light show,
- make a show of,
- minstrel show,
- news show,
- no-show,
- panel show,
- picture show,
- road show,
- shadow show,
- show biz,
- show business,
- show girl,
- show me state,
- show the door,
- show time,
- show trial,
- show window,
- show-off,
- stage show,
- steal the show,
- strip show,
- talk show,
- television show,
- tv show,
- vaudeville show,
- Raree-show,
- Show Low, AZ,
- To show one's head,
- To show the cloven foot,
- To show the cloven hoof,
- To show the white feather,
- show-stopper,
- wild west show,
- motion-picture show,
- moving-picture show,
- buffalo bill's wild west show