SHOWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does showing mean? 

• SHOWING (noun)
  The noun SHOWING has 2 senses:

1. the display of a motion picture

2. something shown to the public

  Familiarity information: SHOWING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOWING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The display of a motion picture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

screening; showing; viewing

Hypernyms ("showing" is a kind of...):

display (exhibiting openly in public view)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "showing"):

preview (a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public)

Derivation:

show (give an exhibition of to an interested audience)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Something shown to the public

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

display; exhibit; showing

Context example:

the museum had many exhibits of oriental art

Hypernyms ("showing" is a kind of...):

show (the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "showing"):

parade (a visible display)

light show (a display of colored lights moving in shifting patterns)

Derivation:

show (give an exhibition of to an interested audience)

 Context examples 

The new study adds support to this possibility by showing how these gene variants influence the structure of brain regions underlying those abilities.

(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)

An invasive carcinoma of the breast showing differentiation towards cartilaginous structures.

(Breast Carcinoma with Chondroid Metaplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

Take care, then: if you don't please me, I will shame you by showing how such things should be done.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jo looked up then, quite unconscious of anything but her own pleasure in the prospect of showing them to one another.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

An invasive breast carcinoma showing differentiation towards bone structures.

(Breast Carcinoma with Osseous Metaplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when the alarm took place.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A carcinoid tumor of the lung showing focal necrotic changes or a number of mitotic figures between 2 and 10/10 high power fields.

(Lung Atypical Carcinoid Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

An endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the endometrium showing squamous differentiation.

(Endometrial Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma, Variant with Squamous Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus)

No one can fault you for that, for you would be showing respect.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A special type of immune cell that is found in tissues, such as the skin, and boosts immune responses by showing antigens on its surface to other cells of the immune system.

(Dendritic cell, NCI Dictionary)