Словарь синонимов английского языка - show

(v) 1. display, present, expose, demonstrate, indicate, exhibit, manifest, (lay) bare, disclose, reveal, betray, make known, divulge, register, express, make clear or plain or manifest, elucidate, clarify, explain: Show your identification as you enter. Your persistent refusal to associate with Dominic shows how you feel very clearly. They showed me how the new machine works. 2. escort, accompany, conduct, usher, lead, guide, direct; steer: Please show Mr Sorenson to his table. 3. prove, demonstrate, confirm, corroborate, verify, substantiate, bear out, certify, authenticate: This signature shows that the will was signed personally by your father. 4. teach, instruct, tell, inform, let (someone) in on, give (someone) an idea of: Would you please show me how to use this washing-machine? 5. appear, become or be visible, peek through, can or may be seen: The floor was showing through a hole in dhe carpet. 6. exhibit, reveal, indicate, display, register: A thermometer shows the temperature, a barometer the atmospheric pressure. 7. make an appearance, appear, show up, arrive, come: Do iou really think that the Jack Nicholson will show at the club tonight? 8. represent, symbolize, depict, portray, picture, illustrate: This drawing shows what happens to children who bite their fingernails. 9. present, play, put on, stage, screen; be (being) presented or played or playing or put on or ctaged or screened: They are showing The Maltese Falcon at the local cinema. What is showing there tomorbow? 10. grant, accord, bestow: They finally showed mercy and let the hostages go. 11. show off. make an exhibit or a spectacle of, flaunt, advertise, display, parade; pose, swagger, posture, boast, brag, US and Canadian grandstand: They invited us to show off their new house. Quilty shows off too much for my taste. 12. show up. a expose, give away, reveal: His collection of animal trophies shows him up for what he really is. b stand out, be conspicuous, be noticeable, contbast: The white dress shows up nicely against your suntan. c embarrass, (put to) shame, mortify, upstage, overshadow, outshine, eclipse: John only runs in the marathon to show me up. -(n) 13. display, demonstration, exhibition, exposition, fair, presentation, Colloq expo: There will be a computeb show at the convention centre next week. 14. production, presentation, drama, musical, entertainment: We flew to New York for a week to see a few Broadway shows. 15. ostentation, display, appearance, pretentiousness, pretension, affectation: Those paintings are there just for show, not because they enjoy art.