Reveal

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reveal \Re*veal"\, n.
     1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.]
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     2. (Arch.) 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. [Written also {revel}.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reveal \Re*veal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Revealed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Revealing}.] [F. r['e]v['e]ler, L. revelare, revelatum,
     to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum
     a veil. See {Veil}.]
     1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept
        secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
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              Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown,
              She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
                                                    --Waller.
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     2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be
        known or discovered without divine or supernatural
        instruction or agency).
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     Syn: To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover;
          open; discover; impart; show.
  
     Usage: See {Communicate}. -- {Reveal}, {Divulge}. To reveal
            is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known
            what was previously concealed; to divulge is to
            scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly
            known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed;
            something long confined to the knowledge of a few is
            at length divulged. "Time, which reveals all things,
            is itself not to be discovered." --Locke. "A tragic
            history of facts divulged." --Wordsworth.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reveal
       v 1: make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings
            out the best in her"; "The newspaper uncovered the
            President's illegal dealings" [syn: {uncover}, {bring
            out}, {unveil}]
       2: make known to the public information that was previously
          known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a
          secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at
          which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal
          how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news
          to her" [syn: {disclose}, {let on}, {bring out}, {discover},
           {expose}, {divulge}, {impart}, {break}, {give away}, {let
          out}]
       3: make clear and visible; "The article revealed the policies
          of the government" [syn: {display}, {show}]
       4: disclose directly or through prophets; "God rarely reveal
          his plans for Mankind"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  157 Moby Thesaurus words for "reveal":
     affect, air, argue, bare, be indicative of, be significant of,
     be symptomatic of, bespeak, betoken, betray, brandish, break it to,
     break the news, break the seal, breathe, bring forth,
     bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to light,
     bring to notice, characterize, clear, come out with, communicate,
     confide, confide to, connote, dangle, demonstrate, denominate,
     denote, deobstruct, develop, differentiate, dig up, disclose,
     discover, disinter, dismask, display, divulgate, divulge,
     dramatize, draw the veil, embody, enact, entail, evidence, evince,
     evulgate, excavate, exhibit, exhume, expose, expose to view,
     express, ferret out, fish up, flaunt, flourish, free, give,
     give evidence, give out, give sign, give token, give vent to,
     highlight, hint, identify, illuminate, impart, incarnate, indicate,
     involve, lay bare, lay open, leak out, let daylight in,
     let get around, let in on, let on, let out, let slip, make clear,
     make known, make plain, manifest, mark, materialize, mean, note,
     open, open up, out with, parade, patefy, perform, present, produce,
     publish, raise the curtain, represent, roll out, root up,
     set forth, show, show forth, show up, signify, spotlight,
     stand for, strip bare, suggest, symptomatize, symptomize, tell,
     testify, token, trot out, turn up, unblock, uncase, unclench,
     uncloak, unclog, unclutch, uncork, uncover, uncurtain, undo,
     undrape, unearth, unfold, unfoul, unfurl, unkennel, unlatch,
     unlock, unmask, unpack, unplug, unroll, unscreen, unseal,
     unsheathe, unshroud, unshut, unstop, unveil, unwrap, utter, vent,
     ventilate, wave, worm out