Debut vs Unveil - What's the difference?
debut | unveil |
A performer's first-time performance to the public.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=April 11
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City
, work=BBC Sport
(transitive, chiefly, US) to formally introduce, as to the public
to make one's initial formal appearance
To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal.
* {{quote-book
, year=1996
, author=Status of women in Islam
, title=Status of women in Islam
, page=91
, passage=The Schools of Jurisprudence of Abu Hanifa, Al-Shafaii and Malik agree that the woman is permitted to unveil her face and hands in the streets in front of the strangers. However, if this display of the face does rouse temptation and charm, the woman has to veil her face as she does the rest of her body.}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1836
, author=James Cook
, title=The Three voyages of Captain Cook round the world
, page=356
, passage=A sort of curtain, made of- mat, usually hung before them, which the natives were sometimes unwilling to remove ; and when they did consent to unveil them, they seemed to express themselves in a very mysterious manner.}}
* {{quote-book
, year=1831
, author=Thomas Dick
, title=The works of Thomas Dick
, page=102
, passage=Since, therefore, the science of natural philosophy is conversant about the works of the Almighty, and its investigations have a direct tendency to illustrate the perfections of his nature, to unveil the plan of his operations, to unfold the laws by which he governs the kingdom of universal nature, and to display the order, symmetry, and proportion, which reign throughout the whole.}}
To remove a veil; to reveal one's self.
As a noun debut
is debut.As a verb unveil is
to remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal.debut
English
(wikipedia debut)Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- Since making its debut two years ago, the program has gained cult status.
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Verb
(en verb)- Amalgamated Software Systems debuted release 3.2 in Spring of 2004.
- Release 3.2 debuted to mixed reviews in Spring of 2004.