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Reveal vs Suppose - What's the difference?

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Reveal is a related term of suppose.


As verbs the difference between reveal and suppose

is that reveal is to uncover; to show and display that which was hidden while suppose is .

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

    suppose

    English

    Verb

    (suppos)
  • To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=15 citation , passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}
  • To theorize or hypothesize.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose .}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-06, author= David Cox
  • , volume=189, issue=13, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Celebrity rules even Hawking's universe , passage=Just what is supposed to be wrong with the pursuit of fame is not always made clear. Plato disapproved of competition for praise on the grounds that it would tempt the great to bend to the will of the crowd. It is hard to argue with that, and social degradation remains a fear.}}
  • To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
  • * (Bible), 2 (w) xiii. 32
  • Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead.
  • *
  • As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
  • To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
  • Purpose supposes foresight.
  • * 1752 , (Charlotte Lennox), (The Female Quixote)
  • One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected.
  • To put by fraud in the place of another.
  • Synonyms

    * assume (1,2) * See also

    Derived terms

    * supposable * supposed to (idiom) * supposedly

    Statistics

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