Word Finder - shows

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A play, dance, or other entertainment.

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An exhibition of items.

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art show;  dog show

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A broadcast program/programme.

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radio show;  television show

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A movie.

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Let's catch a show.

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An agricultural show.

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I'm taking the kids to the show on Tuesday.

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A project or presentation.

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Let's get on with the show.   Let's get this show on the road.   They went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors.   It was Apple's usual dog and pony show.

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A demonstration.

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show of force

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Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)

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The dog sounds ferocious but it's all show.

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Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.

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(with "the") The major leagues.

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He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the show.

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

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Pretence.

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Sign, token, or indication.

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Semblance; likeness; appearance.

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Plausibility.

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

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To display, to have somebody see (something).

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All he had to show for four years of attendance at college was a framed piece of paper.

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To bestow; to confer.

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To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.

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To guide or escort.

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Could you please show him on his way. He has overstayed his welcome.

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To be visible; to be seen; to appear.

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At length, his gloom showed.

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To put in an appearance; show up.

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We waited for an hour, but they never showed.

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To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.

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(racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.

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In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars.

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

Granted, he's been secretive about Julie but the fact he brought her here to meet us shows he's opening up.

Just don't tell the Iceman I cometh when he shows up.

She was watching the latest of his two TV shows, the one where he was a cook.

The fact that she shows no terror as she sits before me is most vexing.

In one direction the tabby shows a tendency to melanism which culminates in complete blackness, while in the other direction there is an equally marked tendency to albinism; grey cats, which may be regarded as tabbies whose stri p es have disappeared, forming the connecting link between the tabby and the white cat.

There would be dinners, a Saturday night dance, slide shows and hundreds of ice climbing exhibits.

Because television was radio with pictures, the first television shows were simply men in suits standing in front of microphones reading the news.

In all other questions of this kind he shows himself far in advance of the economic fallacies of the day.

It shows me you have some inkling of the importance of this gift you possess and the dire consequences of it falling into the wrong hands.

She'd never been in a police station, but she didn't think they'd be this different from the police shows on television!

Just imagine being a little mouse in the corner, see­ing who shows up, what they have to say about you.

The Hampton Court organ of 1690 shows that Schmidt had further lowered his pitch a semitone, to a' 441 7.

I remembered your mentioning the perfect attendance—how your son and husband had a little bet going but his personnel record shows he took a day off, on the fourth of March.

From July to October the level of the Senegal shows a series of fluctuations, with, however, a general increase till the end of August or beginning of September, when the maximum occurs.

The 12-hour term is much less variable, especially as regards its phase angle; its amplitude shows distinct maxima near the equinoxes.

The anterior end of body always shows some "cephalization."

Shows you're a fool.

During thunderstorms the record from an electrograph shows large sudden excursions, the trace usually going off the sheet with every flash of.

All his work shows a judicial tone of mind, and is remarkable for the charm of its style.

It is rough in form and the author shows no power of discriminating between important and unimportant events; yet the chronicle is an excellent authority for the history of Saxony during the reigns of the emperors Otto III.

The appended table shows the progress made since 1850 with regard to steam power.

Experience shows that in the modern orchestra there is safety in.

The export of agricultural products shows a large increase.

The young foot shows a bilobed form.

I'm not lying when I say there is no firm proof that your hus­band's death was anything more than an accidental drowning— that's what the overwhelming evidence shows.

The herm is a dry work and the head upon the coins shows various degrees of idealization.

The site, now called Eski-shehr, shows only a few traces of the old town.

This is not so, for his will (Memoirs, p. 427) shows that besides his large estates he left a considerable amount of personal property.

The import trade shows the largest totals in foodstuffs, wines and liquors, textiles and raw materials for their manufacture, wood and its manufactures, iron and its manufactures, paper and cardboard, glass and ceramic wares.

The following table shows the number of live stock in the country at intervals of ten years since 1885.

This shows that the principle of the dissipation of energy has control over the actions of those agents only whose faculties are too gross to enable them to grapple individually with the minute portions of matter which are the seat of energy.

He shows that the amount of work obtainable is equal to that which can be done by the first gas in expanding into the space occupied by the second (supposed vacuous) together with that done by the second in expanding into the space occupied by the first.

But experiment shows that in this condition much of the violin part sounds incomplete; and the truth appears to be that Haydn is thinking, like any modern composer, of the opposition of two solid bodies of tone - the pianoforte and the stringed instruments.

Timbre itself is, as Helmholtz shows, a kind of harmony felt but not heard.

The hydroid colony shows many variations in form and architec- ture which depend simply upon differences in the methods in which polyps are budded.

The sub-umbrella invariably shows a velum as an inwardly projecting ridge or rim at its margin, within the circle .of tentacles; hence the medusae of this sub-class are termed craspedote.

The endoderm of the medusa shows the same general types of structure as in the polyp, described above.

The body bears tentacles, but shows no division into hydrorhiza, hydrocaulus or hydranth; it is temporarily fixed and has no perisarc. The polyp is usually hermaphrodite, developing both ovaries and testes in the same individual.

The development of the Trachomedusae, so far as it is known, shows an actinula-stage which is either free (larval) or passed over in the egg (foetal) as in Geryonia; in no case does there appear to be a free planula-stage.

The development of the Narcomedusae is in the main similar to that of the Trachomedusae, but shows some remarkable features.

As yet, however, the medusa of Microhydra has only been seen in an immature condition, but it shows some well-marked differences from Limnocodium, especially in the structure of the tentacles, which furnish useful characters for distinguishing species amongst medusae.

Thus even his idea of the relation of the divine activity to the world shows a tendency to a pantheistic notion of a divine thought which gradually realizes itself in the process of becoming.

All organic forms are at bottom but one organization, and the inorganic world shows the same formative activity in various degrees or potences.

He shows that in the 3rd century B.C. the language used throughout northern India was practically one, and that it was derived directly from the speech of the Vedic Aryans, retaining many Vedic forms lost in the later classical Sanskrit.

Franke also shows that there were local peculiarities in small matters of spelling and inflexion, and that the particular form of the language used in and about the Avanti district, of which the capital was Ujjeni (a celebrated pre-Buddhistic city), was the basis of the language used in the sacred texts as we now have them.

The registry of the citizens, the suppression of litigation, the elevation of public morals, the care of minors, the retrenchment of public expenses, the limitation of gladiatorial games and shows, the care of roads, the restoration of senatorial privileges, the appointment of none but worthy magistrates, even the regulation of street traffic, these and numberless other duties so completely absorbed his attention that, in spite of indifferent health, they often kept him at severe labour from early morning till long after midnight.

His position, indeed, often necessitated his presence at games and shows, but on these occasions he occupied himself either in reading, in being read to, or in writing notes.

The Mosses and Liverworts include forms with a more or less leaf-like thallus, such as many of the liverworts, and forms in which the plant shows a differentiation into a stem bearing remarkably simple leaves, as in the true mosses.

The gametophyte is a small thalloid structure which shows varying degrees of independence affording an interesting transition to the next group.

The sporophyte is the plant which is differentiated into stem, leaf and root, which show a wonderful variety 01 form; the internal structure also shows increased complexity and variety as compared with the other group of vascular plants, the Pteridophyta.