reveal
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English revelen, from Old French reveler, from Latin revēlāre, from re- + vēlāre, from vēlum.
Pronunciation- (RP) IPA: /ɹɪˈviːl/, /ɹəˈviːl/
- (America) IPA: /ɹɪˈvil/, /ɹəˈvil/
- (Australia) IPA: /ɹɪˈviːl/, [ɹɪˈvɪil]
reveal (plural reveals)
- The outer side of a window or door frame.
- Synonyms: jamb, revel
- 2010, 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, narratology, comedy, usually, informal) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden in the scene or story.
- 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.
reveal (reveals, present participle revealing; simple past and past participle revealed)
- (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
- Synonyms: uncover, unfold, unveil, Thesaurus:reveal
- c. 1625, Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) Escaped in the Road at St Andero
- Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, / She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
- (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.
- Synonyms: disclose, divulge, Thesaurus:divulge
- French: révéler
- German: enthüllen
- Italian: rivelare, gettare la maschera, uscire allo scoperto, mostrare se stesso, svelare
- Portuguese: revelar
- Russian: выявля́ть
- Spanish: revelar, propalar
- French: révéler, laisser voir
- German: offenbaren
- Italian: rivelare
- Portuguese: divulgar
- Spanish: revelar
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