What is the difference between see and show?
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To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
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# To witness or observe by personal experience.
#* (Bible), (w) viii. 51
To form a mental picture of.
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, title= # (label) To understand.
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, title= # To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
(label) To meet, to visit.
# To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
#* (Bible), 1 (w) xv. 35
# To date frequently.
(label) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
(label) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if'' or ''whether ).
(used in the imperative ) Used to emphasise a proposition.
A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
* Spenser
To display, to have somebody see (something).
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, title= To bestow; to confer.
To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
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, title= To guide or escort.
To be visible, to be seen.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (1809-1892)
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, title= (informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
(informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
(racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
(obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
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, title= (countable) An exhibition of items.
(countable) A demonstration.
(countable) A broadcast program/programme.
(countable) A movie.
(uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance.
* Young
A project or presentation.
The major leagues.
(mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
(obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
* Bible, Luke xx. 46. 47
* (John Milton)
(medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
As verbs the difference between see and show
is that see is to perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight while show is to display, to have somebody see (something).As nouns the difference between see and show
is that see is a diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop while show is a play, dance, or other entertainment.see
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path.
- Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Wings of Desire, passage=It is not just that we see birds as little versions of ourselves. It is also that, at the same time, they stand outside any moral process. They are utterly indifferent. This absolute oblivion on their part, this lack of sharing, is powerful.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
- And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death.
Synonyms
* (perceive with the eyes) behold, descry, espy, observe, view * (understand) follow, get, understandDerived terms
* aftersee * besee * foresee * forsee * insee * missee * outsee * oversee * see a man about a dog * see for * see things * see someone right * see stars * see the light of day * see through * see-through * see with one's own eyes * undersee * unseeSee also
* look * sight * watchEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see .
Derived terms
* Holy SeeSee also
* cathedra * cathedral * chair * throneStatistics
*External links
* (wikipedia "see")show
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Alternative forms
* shew (archaic)Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
- to show''' mercy; to '''show favour
Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}
- Just such she shows before a rising storm.
- All round a hedge upshoots, and shows / At distance like a little wood.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed .}}
- My lord of York, it better showed with you.
Usage notes
In the past, shew'' was used as a past tense form and ''shewed as a past participle of this verb; both forms are now archaic.Synonyms
* (display) display, indicate, point out, reveal, exhibit * (indicate a fact to be true) demonstrate, prove * (put in an appearance) arrive, show upAntonyms
* (display) conceal, cover up, hide * (indicate a fact to be true) disprove, refuteDerived terms
* show a clean pair of heels * show ankle * * show off * show one's true colors * show one's true stripes * show somebody the door * show upSee also
* showcase * showdownNoun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show . He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
- I envy none their pageantry and show .
- Let's get on with the show'''. Let's get this '''show''' on the road. They went on an international road '''show''' to sell the shares to investors. It was Apple's usual dog and pony ' show .
- (Raymond)
- Beware of the scribes,which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers.
- He through the midst unmarked, / In show plebeian angel militant / Of lowest order, passed.