Definitions for showing

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showing show·ing

Spelling: [shoh-ing]

IPA: /ˈʃoʊ ɪŋ/

Showing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in showing (ghinosw).

Definitions for showing

noun

1. a show, display, or exhibition.
2. the act of putting something on display.
3. a performance or record considered for the impression it makes:
4. a setting forth or presentation, as of facts or conditions.
5. Also called show piece. a rock specimen revealing the presence of a certain mineral.
6. a theatrical production, performance, or company.
7. a radio or television program.
8. a motion picture.
9. 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:
10. any kind of public exhibition or exposition:
11. ostentatious display:
12. a display, exhibition, or demonstration:
13. an indication; trace:
14. the position of the competitor who comes in third in a horse race, harness race, etc. Compare place (def 27b), win1 (def 17).
15. appearance; impression:
16. a sight or spectacle.
17. an unreal or deceptive appearance:
18. an act or instance of showing.
19. a motion-picture theater.
20. Informal. a chance:
21. 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.
22. 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 showing

before 950; Middle English schewing (gerund), Old English scēawung; see show, -ing¹

Examples for showing

It would almost be less disturbing if he was showing some kind of sign he was a homicidal maniac.

Such was the importance of showing the country that he was a “different kind of Democrat.”

The flush of his own heavy meal kept his pallor from showing.

Lynch was surely not afraid of showing disrespect to the mayor.

Everybody said that he had only succeeded in showing that his resignation was unnecessary.

He could not refrain from showing his satisfaction with Evelyn.

The Father will still be showing us something new; the something new will still be showing us the Father.

Almost all of the network and cable news channels said that they would not be showing the cartoons either.

Besides, as he said to a colleague, "If we did not dissolve we would be showing the white feather."

The account goes some way in showing just how present the Quds and other forces are in Iraq at this point in time.