Show

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).

To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.

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.

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.

To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.

To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.

To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.

The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.

That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show.

Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.

Semblance; likeness; appearance.

False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.

A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.

A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.

establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"

provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"

finish third or better in a horse or dog race; "he bet $2 on number six to show"

indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read ‘empty’"

give evidence of, as of records; "The diary shows his distress that evening"