Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“shows” is a form of

show

UK /ʃəʊ/ · US /ʃoʊ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms shows showing showed shew shown showest showedst showeth shewe showe

  1. verb (transitive) To display, convey or exhibit; to have something available for others to see; to direct attention to something. “The king showed great wisdom in his decisions.”
  2. verb (transitive) To indicate; to convey facts that lead to a conclusion. “The record shows that you have been late twelve times this year.”
  3. verb (transitive) To guide or escort; to show the way. “Could you please show him on his way. He has overstayed his welcome.”
  4. verb (transitive) To bestow; to confer. “to show mercy; to show favour”
  5. verb (transitive) To put on a movie, TV show, etc; to be presented in this way. “The cinema on Ninth Avenue is showing a couple family movies.”
  6. verb (transitive) To display artwork in a gallery or museum. “John is showing his work tonight.”
  7. verb (transitive) To display on offer. “The store on Eighth Street is showing the new spring collection in the window.”
  8. verb (transitive, card games) To give hints to the apparent or purported nature of one's hand of cards. “There's a bunch of ways to show a bad hand.”
  9. noun (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment. “There were a thousand people at the show.”
  10. noun (countable) An exhibition of items. “art show;  dog show”
  11. noun (countable) A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program. “radio show;  television show”
  12. noun (countable) A movie. “Let's catch a show.”
  13. noun (Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural exhibition. “I'm taking the kids to the show on Tuesday.”
  14. noun A project or presentation. “Let's get on with the show.”
  15. noun (countable) A demonstration. “show of force”
  16. noun (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases “all show” and “for show”.) “The dog sounds ferocious but it's all show.”
  17. noun Synonym of shive (“wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp”).
  18. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

demonstrate prove arrive show up display exhibit flaunt indicate parade point out reveal rub one's nose in show off visiblize program(me) exhibition exposition demonstration illustration proof appearance demo present establish shew testify bear witness evidence picture depict

Antonyms

conceal cover up hide disprove refute

Etymology

From Middle English schewen, from Old English scēawian (“to look, look at, exhibit, display”), from Proto-West Germanic *skauwōn, from Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (“to look, see”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”); see haw, gaum, caveat, caution.
Cognate with Scots shaw (“to show”), Dutch schouwen (“to inspect, view”), German schauen (“to see, behold”), Danish skue (“to behold”). Related to sheen.
Wider cognates include Ancient Greek κῦδος (kûdos), Latin caveō whence English caution and caveat, Sanskrit कवि (kaví, “seer, prophet, bard”), Proto-Slavic *čuti (whence Russian чу́ять (čújatʹ) and many more).

From Middle English schewe, from the verb (schewen).

Variant of shove, itself a variant of shive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb 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).
  2. verb To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.
  3. verb To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.
  4. verb To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.

Etymology [OE. schowen, shewen, schewen, shawen, AS. sceáwian, to look, see, view; akin to OS. scaw, OFries. skawia, D. schouwen, OHG. scouw, G. schauen, Dan. skue, Sw. sk, Icel. sko, Goth. usskawjan to waken, skuggwa a mirror, Icel. skuggy shade, shadow, L. cavere to be on one's guard, Gr. kavi wise. Cf. Caution, Scavenger, Sheen.]

Etymology [Written also shew.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “show”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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