Reveal vs Deliver - What's the difference?
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The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
* (rfdate) Carter B. Horsley, The Upper East Side Book :
(cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
(obsolete) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb.
To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
* Waller
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.
To set free.
(label) To do with birth.
# To give birth.
# To assist in the birth of.
# To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
#* Gower
(label) To free from or disburden of anything.
* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)
To bring or transport something to its destination.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered .}}
To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
* Bible, (w) xl. 13
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
To express in words, declare, or utter.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 27, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
To discover; to show.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To admit; to allow to pass.
Reveal is a related term of deliver.
As verbs the difference between reveal and deliver
is that reveal is to uncover; to show and display that which was hidden while deliver is to set free.As a noun reveal
is the outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.reveal
English
(wikipedia reveal)Noun
(en noun)- The building has a one-story rusticated limestone base and a canopied entrance with a doorman beneath an attractive, rusticated limestone window reveal' on the second floor and a very impressive and ornate limestone window ' reveal on the third floor flanked by female figures.
- The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal : he was sleeping on a bed in a department store.
Synonyms
* (side of a window or door opening) revelQuotations
* 2001, Nicholas Proferes, Film Directing Fundamentals [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=8UkrTrb1y88C&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&sig=9LrVWui5Pc-pHYD23unYfCyHcDg] *: The reveal is a narrative/dramatic element so pervasive that its power can be underestimated by the beginning filmmaker because, in a sense, each shot reveals something. * 2002, Blain Brown, Cinematography [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=1JL2jFbNPNAC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&sig=mMrBLvPxRrwexc9sNLY0pHRoRDo] *: A simple dolly or crane move can be used for an effective reveal . A subject fills the frame, then with a move, something else is revealed. * 2004, Fred Karlin, On the Track [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=4Dj42oNleXIC&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&sig=DCz0jkLLrqsMKmwSlZXFahyBnog] *: Look for the reveal of the ghosts hanging in the school hallway (00:57:27); [...]Verb
(en verb)- Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
Synonyms
* bewray * communicate * disclose * discover * divulge * impart * open * show * uncover * unfold * unveilAnagrams
* English reporting verbsdeliver
English
Alternative forms
* delivre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was delivered safe and soon.
- Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.
- Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.
- The constables have delivered her over.
- The exalted mind / All sense of woe delivers to the wind.
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992), passage=It’s a lovely sequence cut too short because the show seems afraid to give itself over to romance and whimsy and wistfulness when it has wedgie jokes to deliver .}}
- shaking his head and delivering some show of tears
- An uninstructed bowler thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward.
- I'll deliver myself your loyal servant.
- (Francis Bacon)
