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Reveal vs Profess - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between reveal and profess

is that reveal is to communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction while profess is to work as a professor of; to teach.

As verbs the difference between reveal and profess

is that reveal is to uncover; to show and display that which was hidden while profess is to administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order (chiefly in passive).

As a noun reveal

is the outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.

reveal

English

(wikipedia reveal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
  • * (rfdate) Carter B. Horsley, The Upper East Side Book :
    • 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.
  • (cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
    • 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.
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (side of a window or door opening) revel

    Quotations

    * 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)
  • To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
  • * Waller
    • Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.

    • Synonyms

    * bewray * communicate * disclose * discover * divulge * impart * open * show * uncover * unfold * unveil

    Related terms

    * revelation

    Anagrams

    * English reporting verbs

    profess

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
  • * 2000 , Butler's Lives of the Saints , p.118:
    • This swayed the balance decisively in Mary's favour, and she was professed on 8 September 1578.
  • (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
  • * 2011 , Alex Needham, The Guardian , 9 Dec.:
    • Kiefer professes himself amused by the fuss that ensued when he announced that he was buying the Mülheim-Kärlich reactor.
  • (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
  • * c. 1604 , (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure , First Folio 1623:
    • He professes to haue receiued no sinister measure from his Iudge, but most willingly humbles himselfe to the determination of Iustice.
  • * Milton
    • The best and wisest of them all professed / To know this only, that he nothing knew.
  • * 1974 , ‘The Kansas Kickbacks’, Time , 11 Feb 1974:
    • The Governor immediately professed that he knew nothing about the incident.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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,
  • To make a claim (to be something), to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
  • * 2010 , Hélène Mulholland, The Guardian , 28 Sep 2010:
    • Ed Miliband professed ignorance of the comment when he was approached by the BBC later.
  • To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
  • * 1983 , Alexander Mcleish, The Frontier Peoples of India , Mittal Publications 1984, p.122:
    • The remainder of the population, about two-thirds, belongs to the Mongolian race and professes Buddhism.
  • To work as a professor of; to teach.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:he was a Spaniard, who about two hundred yeeres since professed Physicke in Tholouse .

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