Teach vs Show - What's the difference?
teach | show |
To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct.
* :
(label) To pass on knowledge to.
(label) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
(label) To cause to learn or understand.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
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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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, author=John T. Jost, volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To guide or escort.
To be visible, to be seen.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (1809-1892)
*
, 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.
* , chapter=4
, 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 a proper noun teach
is (slang) nickname for a teacher.As a noun show is
show, spectacle.teach
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) techen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- So thus within a whyle as they thus talked the nyghte passed / and the daye shone / and thenne syre launcelot armed hym / and took his hors / and they taught hym to the Abbaye and thyder he rode within the space of two owrys
Rob Dorit
Making Life from Scratch, passage=Deep Blue taught' us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will ' teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them.}}
Synonyms
* (sense) educate, instructAntonyms
* (sense) learnDerived terms
* * teacher * teachingEtymology 2
(probably clipping)Noun
(es)show
English
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.
