Definitions for show

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Spelling: [shoh]
IPA: /ʃoʊ/

Show is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in show (hosw).

Definitions for show

noun

  1. a theatrical production, performance, or company.
  2. a radio or television program.
  3. a motion picture.
  4. an exposition for dealers or the public of products by various manufacturers in a particular industry, usually held in an exhibition hall, convention facility, or the like:
  5. any kind of public exhibition or exposition:
  6. ostentatious display:
  7. a display, exhibition, or demonstration:
  8. an indication; trace:
  9. the position of the competitor who comes in third in a horse race, harness race, etc. Compare place (def 27b), win1 (def 17).
  10. appearance; impression:
  11. a sight or spectacle.
  12. an unreal or deceptive appearance:
  13. an act or instance of showing.
  14. a motion-picture theater.
  15. Informal. a chance:
  16. Medicine/Medical. the first appearance of blood at the onset of menstruation. a blood-tinged mucous discharge from the vagina that indicates the onset of labor.
  17. Chiefly British Informal. any undertaking, group of persons, event, etc.; affair; thing.

Idioms

  1. make a show of, to be ostentatious about; affect:
  2. run the show, to control a business, situation, etc.; be in charge:
  3. steal the show, to usurp the credit or get the applause for something: to be the most pleasing or spectacular item or person in a group.
  4. stop the show, to win such enthusiastic applause that a theatrical performance is temporarily interrupted.

Verb phrases

  1. show off, to display ostentatiously: to seek to gain attention by displaying prominently one's abilities or accomplishments.
  2. show up, to make known, as faults; expose; reveal. to exhibit in a certain way; appear: to come to or arrive at a place: to make (another) seem inferior; outdo.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  2. to present or perform as a public entertainment or spectacle:
  3. to indicate; point out:
  4. to guide, escort, or usher:
  5. to explain or make clear; make known:
  6. to make known to; inform, instruct, or prove to:
  7. to prove; demonstrate:
  8. to indicate, register, or mark:
  9. to exhibit or offer for sale:
  10. to allege, as in a legal document; plead, as a reason or cause.
  11. to produce, as facts in an affidavit or at a hearing.
  12. to express or make evident by appearance, behavior, speech, etc.:
  13. to accord or grant (favor, kindness, etc.):

verb (used without object)

  1. to be seen; be or become visible:
  2. to be seen in a certain way:
  3. to put on an exhibition or performance; display one's goods or products:
  4. Informal. to be present or keep an appointment; show up:
  5. to finish third in a horse race, harness race, etc.

Origin of show

before 900; (v.) Middle English showen, s(c)hewen to look at, show, Old English scēawian to look at; cognate with Dutch schowen, German schauen; (noun) Middle English s(c)hew(e), derivative o

Examples for show

I saw 'em fur years, with a big cuttin' out to show the cross-section.

And they might not have to wait that long to show their political heft.

Instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.

"When we are in Athens, I will show you something more beautiful than these," said Pericles.

Not actual CIA agents, but U.S. government personnel who have worked very closely with the CIA, and who are fans of the show.

Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.

As soon as this attack [happened], Paris citizens came together to show were are not afraid, we are Charlie Hebdo.

I can show you people all right that won't ask to see your union card.

I can show it to you, if you desire it, in my father's handwriting.

The horses have not had any water for two days, and show signs of distress.

Word Value for show
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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