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  1. transitive verb To cause or allow to be seen; display.
  2. transitive verb To display for sale, in exhibition, or in competition: showed her most recent paintings.
  3. transitive verb To conduct; guide: showed them to the table.
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  • I haven't watched the show, and here's why: the initial promotion had only McCormack and Cavanagh being snarky to each other, and I had no idea what the show was about. —  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog
  • Tickets for the show are available by calling 945-5014, or by buying them at the door at the White Pines Box Office. —  SooNews.ca Headlines
  • When you watch this show regularly, year after year -- and in the case of the seventh season, which started just a couple weeks after the sixth season ended, it seems like the show is always on -- you get pretty used to the early drama. —  phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
  • Shelley said the show is a great family show -- it's upbeat and positive, and a lot of fun.
  • The opening act for the show was a local group -- Ten Ten. —  RVABlogs
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display ·  game ·  picture ·  play ·  scene ·  today ·  performance ·  feel ·  movie ·  record

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  1. Middle English sheuen, shouen, from Old English scēawian, to look at, display.

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  1. Also archaically shew (the older form); from ME, shewen, schewen, schawen, scheawen, scheauwen, seawen, scawen, from Anglo-Saxon sceáwian (preterit sceáwode, past participle sceáwod), see, behold, also make to see, show, =Old Saxon skawōn =OFries. skawia, skowia, schoia, skua =D. schouwen, inspect, view, =Middle Low German schouwen =Old High German scawōn scauwōn, scowōn, scouwōn, see, look at, consider, Middle High German schowen, schouwen, German schauen, see, behold, =Danish skue, behold, =Gothic (Moesogothic) *skawjan (in comp. us-skawjan, awake), *skaggwōn, see; cf. Goth, skuggwa, a looking-glass; Old High German scūcar, scūchar, a looking-glass; Anglo-Saxon scūa =Old High German scūwo =Icelandic skuggi, shade (see skug); Icelandic skygna, spy, skodha, spy, skyn. insight, perception; from Teutonic √ sku, see, perceive, =L. cavere (√ *scav), take heed, be careful, orig. look about, =Greek κοεῑ, notice; cf. Skt, kavi, wise; Old Bulgarian chutĭ, know, perceive, =Sloven, Servian chuti hear, =Bohemian chiti =Polish czuc, feel, =Russ, chuyatĭ, feel, dial, chutĭ, hear. From the root of show are ult. English scavage, scavager, scavenger, etc., sheen, etc., skug, etc. The past participle shown (like sawn, sewn, etc.) is modern, conformed to the analogy of sown, blown, etc.
  2. Also archaically shew; from Middle English schewe, from Anglo-Saxon sceáwe, a show, =D. schouw (in schouw-spel, a spectacle, show) =Middle Low German schouwe =G. schau =Danish skue, a show, view; from the verb.
  3. Also shew; prob. a reduced form of shode, shood, literally ‘separation,’ applied to various uses: see shode, shode, shood.
 

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