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say it: shoh
show is a verb and noun meaning "give an exhibition of to an interested audience". It carries 16 recorded senses.
give an exhibition of to an interested audience
“She shows her dogs frequently”
“We will demo the new software in Washington”
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”
the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining
“a remarkable show of skill”
something intended to communicate a particular impression
“made a display of strength”
“a show of impatience”
“a good show of looking interested”
a social event involving a public performance or entertainment
“they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway”
pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
“they try to keep up appearances”
“that ceremony is just for show”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for show come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.